by Gordon Hensley | Jan 7, 2014 | Campaign 2014, health care, Health Reform
As the GOP opens the legislative year attacking the lack of security surrounding the Obamacare website sign-up process, a broader list of attack angles to be employed by GOP lawmakers is being reported by Politico. This signals a months-long assault on Obamacare with...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 3, 2014 | Campaign 2014, GOP Politics, Health Reform
Having worked on two of former GOP Senator Gordon Smith’s campaigns, and having spent a bit of time on the ground in Oregon, there’s no question incumbent Jeff Merkley has an advantage going into his 2014 reelection. Nevertheless, the incumbent’s...
by Gordon Hensley | Nov 19, 2013 | Campaign 2014, CMS, health care, Health Reform
CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, caught in the middle of the firestorm surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rollout debacle has, legitimately, been spared much of the blame. Tavenner retains much of the bipartisan support she had when the U.S. Senate confirmed...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 30, 2013 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics, Health Reform, Media Relations
While Texas Senator Ted Cruz is plunging the nation and the Republican Party into an ultra-risky, ill-considered government shutdown — with no apparent longer term strategy — he deserves credit for engaging the so-called mainstream media with face to face...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 26, 2013 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform
Newt Gingrich, Vin Weber, Bob Walker and Conservative Opportunity Society (COS) members used House ‘special orders’ and a captive C-Span camera in the 1980’s to frustrate and ultimately take down House Speaker Jim Wright — and now Ted Cruz...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 11, 2013 | Health Reform
Congress has been back in legislative session for just two days since its summer break, and the Syrian imbroglio is all-consuming and taking up all the oxygen in both legislative chambers. But back in the states — out in the real world — Obamacare...
