Here’s what I like about the Edwards health care plan: –it’s universal and mandatory. –it imposes needed reforms on the insurance industry, like community rating (which means that everyone has to be covered at similar rates, regardless of pre-existing conditions). –it opens the door to a fascinating competition: private insurers would have to compete against [...]

Senate Republicans find themselves in a world of hurt over today’s headlines declaring that they have blocked debate over Iraq policy. They are still getting the hang of being in the minority, and it is dawning on them that when the subject at hand is an unpopular war, it’s not a good idea to shut [...]

After Roger Simon raised the possibility that Obama and Clinton would skip some of the early candidate forums and debates, Hotline now reports that Clinton will indeed attend the first of them, a Carson City, Nevada, forum on Feb 21. It’s going to be a long, long campaign season for the 2008 hopefuls, who will [...]

I received a voicemail from Chris Matthews last week (that I only got around to listening to yesterday, sorry) asking me if I really thought it was fair to characterize his statements in June 2003 about Wilson and the Vice President as “attacks.” He raised a good point in that he was not “attacking” the [...]