Like illegal immigration, the issue of abortion in health reform has been a hotly contested one. The Baucus proposal released Wednesday does mark a departure from the House Democratic bill in one key area, while remaining vague about other areas of concern for the pro-life and pro-choice communities. The biggest difference is the fact that [...]
One of the wonderful things about blogging is, you ask a question and you get an answer. Yesterday, I asked if anyone could come up with the quote from W.J. Cash’s The Mind of the South that I once employed to describe Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell. Commenter Sinyet came through and the quote still [...]
As expected, the plan released Wednesday morning by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus takes a harder line on illegal immigration than the Democratic House bill in two ways. The first big difference comes in the new citizenship verification requirements, which were not specified in the House bill. The eligibility check under the Baucus plan [...]
Here it is, all 220 pages of it.
Senator Kent Conrad today made an unusual request of the Congressional Budget Office: a 20-year cost estimate on the latest draft of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ bill reforming the nation’s health care system. “We’ve got to have somebody look at this objectively and try to tell us: do we bend the cost curve [...]
This bit from Anderson Cooper’s program last night is about all you need to know about the honesty and integrity of the teabaggers, birthers, deathers and assorted fungi marinating in paler precincts of our country.
Ahmed Rashid, the brilliant Pakistani journalist, has an excellent essay on the latest in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the latest New York Review of Books. There are a multitude of valuable insights–especially the attention Rashid pays to the Balochistan rebellion, potentially a greater threat to Pakistan’s continued existence than the Taliban.
