The dilemma facing progressives on health care is simply that the indifference in the face of suffering that the Joe Liebermans of the world have greatly increases their negotiating leverage. His threats to blow up health care reform are simply going to be more credible...
our broken institutions
I will concede that at the time the decision was made, we didn't know whether the decision to let Joe Lieberman keep his chairmanship was a good idea or not..
With respect to the question of whether Joe Lieberman is stupid or mendacious, the answer is, of course, both. Certainly, the fact that he's not very bright can be seen.
Shorter Colonel Mustard: The American population elected a Democratic Congress and a Democratic president because they favor Republican policies.No, seriously, that's his argument. I could bring up a number of points here -- for example, if the country has such reliable "center-right" values, why is...
I will admit that in the immediate aftermath of the election, it wasn't 100% clear that Reid blundered by letting Holy Joe keep his committee chairmanship; it was certainly the.
Amy Sullivan asserts that the Stupak-Pitts amendment was the result of "political malpractice:"Despite the fact that anyone who has followed U.S. politics over the last thirty years could have told.
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...
You probably won't be surprised that some members of Congress are trying to use the necessity of health reform to not only continue to exclude abortion from the funding given.
This wouldn't even be debatable. The idea that Senators who vote to filibuster major initiatives of the party -- filibusters that are highly deleterious not only on the policy merits.
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 direction, when influence should be left to more grown-up factions. Now, the insurance companies that...
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,.
In addition to the fact that Blue Dogs who won't allow up-and-down votes are pretty much entirely useless, it seems to me that Blue Dog votes on cloture provide a.