As long as Beltway lobbyists keep persuading (read: paying) members of the Senate and the House to
grease the skids for insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and medical technology rip-off artists, we'll continue to have substandard, expensive "best-in-the-world" health care.
LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG
In fact, his challenge to the Security Council to adopt a tough resolution helped
grease the skids for the Security Council to make the UN more effective, and for President Bush to support the Council's resolution without provoking a backlash from patriotic Americans.
The insider agenda behind disarming Iraq
Kennedy reminded voters that, though some had suggested he bow out of the race to
grease the skids for favorite-son Sen.
Driving Mr. Kennedy
The Lane County investigators also called Eugene-based FBI agents, because the agency also worked on the Haugen-Bauman murders, and they might be able to "
grease the skids" with their counterparts in Alaska.
Link in murders sought
An International Business Times poll found that 62 percent of Americans opposed Trade Promotion Authority, or fast track - the legislative process that would
grease the skids for congressional approval of the TPP - with 43 percent "strongly" opposing it.
Help Merkley, DeFazio stop TPP in its tracks
In Iraq, owning this special item can
grease the skids in business, get a politician to stand at attention and even inspire affection in a sweetheart.
In Iraq, the best digits cost a mint
Elliott notes that in today's environmental awareness, boat haulers don't
grease the skids with grease anymore.
Alaska's Ports
"Thats why Madigan and his union allies are revving up the Chicago machine to
grease the skids for Mickey Straub," the narrator then says as a reference to my syndicated column in the Sun-Times about 150s support for Straub is displayed.
Durkin mounts a counterattack to primary challenger
* Isn't the Cato Institute you quote one of these "free trade," "conservative" think tanks that have helped
grease the skids for shipping millions of U.S.
Oil companies are gouging
They
grease the skids and buy people off," Dunning said.
Oakridge rock quarry proposed
And as sanctions legislation is pushed through Congress, Iran's bluster and bluffs will only be given validation by Republican and Democratic hawks eager to
grease the skids for enacting harder-line U.S.
Rhetoric, reactionaries and repercussions
He felt those factors would
grease the skids for a significant slide in property values that could last more than just a few years.
Valuations shrink as taxes rise
To
grease the skids, developers have ramped up their marketing, often offering concessions to fill units quickly, said Jonathan J.
Brooklyn's luxury developers feel the blues