{"id":12012,"date":"2017-01-27T17:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T01:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2018-02-09T20:01:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T04:01:54","slug":"good-news-where-we-can-find-it-and-the-australia-lesson-for-national-health-care-bradcast-1272017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12012","title":{"rendered":"Good News Where We Can Find It and &#8216;The Australia Lesson&#8217; for National Health Care: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/27\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpMayPressConf_Behind_012717.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Today on <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>, while it may be pretty slim pickings, we&#8217;re actually able to carve out a bit of good news, here and there, at the end of the first week of the Trump Presidency (which already feels like a year). [<i>Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s show&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Still more of Donald Trump&#8217;s closest political appointees and family members are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/01\/26\/it-turns-out-trump-son-in-law-jared-kushner-is-also-registered-to-vote-in-two-states\/\">found<\/a> to have voter registrations in two separate states (a sign of &#8220;voter fraud&#8221;, if you believe the Clueless-in-Chief);<\/li>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s approval rating is just 36% in Quinnipiac&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/national\/release-detail?ReleaseID=2420\">first poll<\/a> of his Presidency (compared to the much much larger 59% that very popular President Barack Obama enjoyed in his first poll from the same group in 2009);<\/li>\n<li>Federal courts order redistricting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/news\/politics\/southunionstreet\/2017\/01\/20\/12-alabama-legislative-districts-ruled-unconstitutional\/96830710\/\">in Alabama<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/01\/27\/court-wisconsin-republicans-redraw-election-maps\/97137768\/\">in Wisconsin<\/a> due to unlawful GOP gerrymandering;<\/li>\n<li>Nikki Haley, the new U.S. Ambassador to the UN, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/27\/world\/americas\/nikki-haley-united-nations.html\">threatens<\/a> allies in her first remarks at the peacekeeping body;<\/li>\n<li>Trump says he believes in torture, but <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/316542-trump-mattis-will-override-on-torture\">will defer<\/a> to his new DefSec who says he doesn&#8217;t;<\/li>\n<li>Journalist <b>John Judis<\/b>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0997126442\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=tbb-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;creativeASIN=0997126442&#038;linkId=c3aa9ff767ded71202f99e852c345310\"><i>The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics<\/i><\/a>, joins us to explain how the political story behind Australia&#8217;s national health care system may offer an encouraging <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/--100903\">lesson<\/a>, even if the new administration guts the Affordable Care Act (&#8220;Obamacare&#8221;) in the U.S.;<\/li>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s top political appointees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-emails-rnc-reince-priebus-white-house-server-548191\">all had<\/a> private RNC email addresses in the White House, until exposed by the media (Lock them up!);<\/li>\n<li>And, an <a href=\"http:\/\/YesCalifornia.org\">effort<\/a> that could put an initiative for California secession from the U.S. (&#8220;CalExit&#8221;) on the statewide ballot in 2018 receives official approval from the CA Sec. of State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did I mention it already feels like a year?&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; 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