It has to be some sort of landmark in American political discourse when both Lee Siegel and Camille Paglia weigh in on American health care policy. Total combined knowledge of relevant policy area displayed: approaching zero.Still, tough as the competition is I'd have to say...
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There's nothing a winger pundit can do to become discredited. Indeed, if your baldfaced lies help torpedo a major progressive initiative, they're actually an asset. And, no, the damage can.
Sarah Wildman on the glories of the individual insurance market:Our six-month-old daughter cost over $22,000.You’d think, with a number like that, we must have used fertility treatments—but she was conceived.
Ezra objects to my post arguing that it might be better to reject a bill that sells out too much to the Blue Dogs:But it's also worth offering a more general reality check here: The public option is not now, and has not ever, been...
I think it's pretty obvious that a health care bill with no public option and no employer mandate is worse than no bill at all.
Math is hard!
This is certainly right on the merits:For Gingrich and his allies, the health care debate wasn't really about health care: it was about destroying the power of a Democratic President.It's not surprising that the Republicans have remembered that lesson, but it's disappointing that the "centrist"...
So, as some of you knew and others surmised, today was supposed to be the day in which the wife and I enjoyed a Blessed Event, and introduced spawn into.
Yep:In other words, [red-state Blue Dog Democrats are] concerned that the bill (a) costs too much overall and (b) will increase the deficit. And their proposed solutions to this are.
Hacker makes the definitive case.
I'm the one with the tight sweater...More on what was discussed at TAPPED, and from Samhita, Emily Douglas, Chris Bowers, and Lindsay. Amanda Terkel has a transcript.
I was fortunate enough to be part of a group of journalists and bloggers invited to meet with President Clinton at his offices in Harlem this afternoon. The main subject.