Brad Ellsworth, Bart Stupak, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. I would hope that this amendment gets stripped out in conference. On the other hand, it's entirely possible that these people would rather have no health care reform than not be allowed to arbitrarily...
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That pretty much sums up Milbank. And the story, as always, is that it's awful when dirty hippies occasionally have enough influence to shift policy in a very modestly progressive.
Fred Hiatt. "If the cost controls from a public option go away then Congress will magically impose cost controls that affect vested interests even more directly" is a pretty impressive.
I think Joan gets it right. On balance, I think it's quite possible that giving up even this very thin veneer of bipartisanship would produce a better bill on balance, although given the number of conservative Dems it's arguable.
On some level, taking Ceci Connolly to task for acting as a stenographer for insurance company interests willfully attempting to deceive the public is like criticizing a camel for having.
I'm not sure if this is really good news or not, for this reason:So Senator Snowe takes the leap, becoming almost certainly the only Republican, at least on this committee,.
Some excellent analysis from Plumer. The information about the aftermath of the C of C's decision to initially support Clinton's health care reform -- which, after all, was in the interests of many members -- is particularly instructive.
I obviously agree with Ed Kilgore's point that voting for cloture should be the minimal acceptable standard for being a Democratic caucus member in good standing, but I think this.
That's the basic moral of this story.I did a town hall-style health care debate last night in Denver with Hugh Hewitt, before an audience of 973 people, 964 of whom.
Andy Engelson finds it to be more socialist than Communist Vietnam, thus supporting what we already know: the tea-baggers are idiots.The money paragraph(s):The much needed health reforms proposed in the U.S. won’t be perfect, but will go a long way to making sure everyone is...
Another example of the "but the New Deal and Great Society were bipartisan" argument. To add another point, as I understand it the political justification for seeking Republican support is.
You've found the sweet spot; a compromise bill that everyone to the left of Snowe and to the right of Jay Rockefeller can support.I have no idea if Rockefeller would.