A look at how health care reform has put Barack Obama back out on the campaign trail.

House and Senate conferees met this afternoon to hammer out an agreement on the war supplemental. They broke up having reached no agreement. The sticking point? An amendment added by Senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham that backs the administration’s decision not to further release detainee photos. The two senators threatened Tuesday to filibuster everything [...]

Our Pentagon corresondent Mark Thompson calls our attention to this interesting bit of footwork from the Pentagon: The fog of war can clearly be seen anew in Afghanistan. Wednesday’s good news out of Kabul: “Precision Strike Kills Warlord, Associates in Afghanistan,” the Pentagon’s press desk there declared in a statement. But by Thursday, some editing [...]

Re our earlier post, we now get this from the American Medical Association: Statement attributable to: Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D. President, American Medical Association “Make no mistake: Health reform that covers the uninsured is AMA’s top priority this year. Every American deserves affordable, high-quality health care coverage. “Today’s New York Times story creates a false [...]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/cspanPlayer.swf" fvars=" pid=286965-1 ; clipStart=3821.92 ; clipStop=3872.78 ; autoplay=0 ; " width="365" height="340" /] What is it this week with these guys and the Titanic? Do they know something we don’t? Head for the lifeboats! (H/T: C-SPAN Video Library)

This, from Jeffrey Rosen and in the latest dead-tree TIME, is worth a read.

As Jay notes below, we have had what might be a major development in the health care debate. In this morning’s NYT, Robert Pear reports: As the health care debate heats up, the American Medical Association is letting Congress know that it will oppose creation of a government-sponsored insurance plan, which President Obama and many [...]

A couple of months ago over lunch in San Francisco Speaker Pelosi was ruminating over how the Dems won control of the House. The problem after the 2004 election was that President Bush’s approval ratings were too high: 58% in January of 2005 and more than 60% of seniors liked his ideas on Social Security. [...]

Looking ahead to November’s gubernatorial race.