Well, in policy terms, this isn’t bad. Harry Reid has announced that the Senate health reform bill a public option that allows individual states to opt-out if they fear they’re on the road to socialism. This may–emphasize, may–help control costs in some states, especially those where one or two insurers have virtual monopoly control. But [...]
From CBS Radio Correspondent Mark Knoller’s Twitterfeed.:
Someone needs to explain to a few conservative bloggers what satire looks like. Your first clue might be when it mentions dates that are in the future.
The usually excellent David Sanger has a very frustrating piece of analysis in the NY Times today. He reports that a public debate has erupted in Iran over whether to accept the west’s nuclear non-proliferation offer: For days now, Iran’s leadership has been fighting over whether to take that deal, with political opponents of President Mahmoud [...]
Vice President Joe Biden had an absolutely perfect response to Dick Cheney’s utterly predictable and entirely wrong foreign policy speech this week: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a blunt response on Friday to the latest broadsides from former Vice President Dick Cheney: “Who cares?” Exactly so. The national security policy pursued during George W. Bush’s [...]
Jeff Goldberg has a good interview with Jeremy Ben-Ami, the leader of J Street–which is a liberal Israel-advocacy group that has been under vicious assault from right-wing Jewish extremists (who’ve conducted a disgraceful campaign to discourage elected officials from attending J Street’s upcoming convention). Ben-Ami seems perfectly mainstream reasonable to me. You wonder what the [...]
A dispatch from TIME’s Sophia Yan: “Congress, We Are Watching You!” was scrawled across handmade signs, bobbing above the heads of the few hundred rallied by Health Care for America Now to show support for a public option. “We need a public option, not a stock option,” shouted one woman. Some came out to support [...]
A report is circulating among the wingnuts that I had a peek at Barack Obama’s senior thesis. It is completely false. I’ve never seen Obama’s thesis. I have no idea where this report comes from–but I can assure you that it’s complete nonsense. Update: Michael Ledeen now has apologized to me on his blog, claiming [...]
