She avoids the landmines that destroyed her plan in 1994, and puts forward one similar to that being offered by other leading Democratic candidates. That means the argument ahead will be not over who has the best idea for fixing health care, but rather, who can actually turn his or her proposal into reality. Here’s [...]
Our colleagues Adam Zagorin and Brian Bennett have a scoop up about the Blackwater story I mentioned in the Jumble: TIME has obtained an incident report prepared by the U.S. government describing a fire fight Sunday in Baghdad in which at least eight Iraqis were reported killed and 13 wounded. The deadly incident occurred when [...]
Steve Coll is one of the smartest, most discerning writers about the so-called War on Terrorism and he proves it again with this comment on the Petraeus testimony.
I’ve written a piece discussing Fred Thompson’s mediocre launch as a full-fledged presidential candidate — and questioning the thrashing he’s received from the pens and tongues of some members of the conservative opinion elite. Thompson may be a bust in the end, but it’s a bit premature to write off a candidate who’s in second [...]
A favorite question so far: “I want to know why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians?” And someone needs to get the snowman an agent.
Mitt Romney is already blasting Hillary Clinton’s new health care plan–which resembles nothing so much, in its broad outlines, as the individual-mandate plan that Romney himself passed in Massachusetts. The intellectual dishonesty is just staggering; how sad to see a smart, pragmatic and essentially moderate politician continue to embarrass himself in this way.
The news that McCain is a sometimes-practicing Baptist will shock anyone who doesn’t remember the senator’s first presidential run, when discussions about McCain’s faith or lack of it became one of the slightly less icky arrows in Bush’s oppo arsenal. If the controversy is that he sometimes calls himself a Baptist, and sometimes an Episcopalian, [...]
Though some in the party wonder whether he was ever really in it. Anyway, the former Rhode Island Senator (and Montana blacksmith) says he quietly quit the Republican Party a few months back: PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he has left the Republican Party because the national GOP has drifted too [...]
• You’ll take our completely involuntary drawdown and you’ll like it: “If the object is to bring troops home, you would think people would be happy with that, regardless of what the reason was,” said Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, “Take yes for an answer, in other words.” [NYT] • Prayers do get answered: KEYES-OBAMA [...]
In an interview with Bob Woodward at the Washington Post, the Maestro clarifies what is perhaps the most explosive line in his new book: “The Iraq War is largely about oil.” Greenspan tells Woodward that this wasn’t the Administration’s motive, but his own view of the situation. And he says he made that point to [...]
