Via Krugman (who does a good job of explaining why a reform bill should contain a public option), perhaps someone can make heads or tails of this Joe Klein argument, because I sure can't:I would be opposed to a system where every doctor and nurse...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Yeah, good luck with that. Although I am never surprised by anything from the winger puke funnel going mainstream...
Yglesias responds, conceding that the Swiss analogy doesn't really work "except in the broad sense that Switzerland is the other example of a developed country that came late to the.
Matt may well be right that whatever bill that emerges from Congress will be enough of an improvement over the status quo to be worth supporting. His claim, however, that the Baucus bill "would create something comparable to the situation that currently prevails in Switzerland"...
In the confusion around my move, I was reminded today that I forgot to thank frequent commenter Howard for very generously getting me Speak No Evil and The Black Saint.
JMM:Am I the only one who thinks that if the Dems pass a bill with mandates and subsidies for poor and moderate income people to purchase it but no public.
Yeah, there are better players out there, but it's still another remarkable accomplishment by a remarkable player. Zumsteg, before the fact:--I would love to see Ichiro! get his 2,000th MLB hit in front of Oakland fans, who are not fans. And I hope when he...
This passage from the WaPo ombudsman's defense of Monica Hesse's lengthy puff piece on professional homophobe Brian Brown is revealing in the way that it fails to address the central.
Hmm, maybe the Mets's bad luck with injuries this year is karmic payback from one of the stars of the 1969 world champions using these kinds of arguments to justify.
The possibility that McCain's choice of Palin really did significantly affect the 2008 elections is one I find genuinely fascinating. The question is obviously a good example of the fact that it's essentially impossible to prove social science hypotheses involving causation, with the small number...
Shorter Peter Baker: Several major media outlets created a yet another bullshit story about meaningless trivia concerning the Clinton family. The parties to blame for this couldn't be more clear:.
Unlike Atrios, I hadn't remembered the interview, so I looked it up. And yikes:That wasn't good enough for Sawyer. She spent an hour trying to bend the Chicks with a.