Paul Krugman, in the course of responding to Ross Douthat, makes what I still consider to be a bad rhetorical move: But Ross Douthat, in the course of realistically warning his fellow conservatives that Obamacare doesn’t seem to be collapsing, goes on to tell them...
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This thread had a discussion of the the Supreme Court damaging the Medicaid funding mechanism in Sebelius,leaving to the inevitable argument that it was a 7-2 vote and hence Both.
Following up on the exchange between Meyerson and Reed, I reiterate my position that the Democratic Party is clearly well to the left of where it was in the 90s:.
Kevin Drum has a post relevant to the current debate on Democratic economic policy. I agree with some of the individual points, but don't really agree with the general framing. "Democrats simply don't consistently support concrete policies that help the broad working and middle classes,"...
I have more on the abominable GOP alternative to the Affordable Care Act: The Medicaid expansion of the ACA is perhaps the most important achievement of the ACA, greatly expanding.
J.W. Mason, who proposed the alternative path for health care reform at Crooked Timber, has a good question: In fact, I think the ACA makes expanding Medicare easier, simply demonstrating.
To its credit, the occasional inexplicable book-plugging interview aside Salon no longer promotes Camille Paglia. Alas, it is now fairly regularly publishing Matt Stoller, who is sort of Paglia but 1)with fewer references to Madonna and uses of the word "Dionysian," and 2)less coherent. His...
Not surprisingly, the last of the Independent Medium-Audience Political Bloggers (TM) does not get leaks from Supreme Court clerks or justices, or even early-morning messages from Ginni Thomas. However, I.
One interesting thing to me about the thread on the Kagan/Breyer Medicaid vote is the number of commenters who seem to think that strategic voting by Supreme Court justices is.
The core of Mark Tushnet's three part explanation for John Roberts voting to strike the ACA at oral argument and then voting to uphold it is provocative from a different direction than one might expect, at least if you know Tushnet's work. Tushnet speculates that...
Mark Tushnet is making sense: Now, to Justice Scalia’s performance in the ACA arguments: For my money, the “Jack Benny” exchange in the Medicaid expansion argument is simply embarrassing, another.