Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he will include a public option that states can vote to opt out of in his version of the health care reform bill that could be unveiled as early as Wednesday. But that certainly hasn’t ended the debate in the Senate about what kind of public option may [...]
In French when one bids a more permanent goodbye to a friend you say adieu – farewell. But if you shall see them again, even if it might be a while, you tell them au revoir or bon voyage – until we meet again and good travels. I want to add my thanks and best [...]
If Josh would ever come visit us in the Washington bureau, we’d give him the grand Swampland send-off he deserves, complete with the baked goods we’re always snarfing down here. It’s a measure of the impact he has had on all aspects of the magazine and Time.com that I don’t think any of us can [...]
A poll taken by CNN today has Americans opposed to the health care legislation passed by the House, 49-46. A poll taken by the Washington Post has a 52% majority opposed to the war in Afghanistan. I’d say that I take both with a grain of salt, except a grain of salt is more substantive. [...]
Senate Democrats have been waiting on tenterhooks for a score from the Congressional Budget Office before they can introduce their health care reform bill and start the debate. Assuming the score comes today, the bill could be introduced as early as tomorrow. But, don’t get your hopes up for a vote any time soon. Senator [...]
I’m joining Joe as a conscientious objector to Palinmania. (Did anyone else start twitching less than a minute into the Barbara Walters interview?) Let’s focus instead on something a little less controversial like, oh, say, the Catholic church and gay rights. You might have read last week that the Archdiocese of Washington is threatening to [...]
Let me echo Karen’s sentiments below about Josh Tyrangiel. He is one of the very finest editors I’ve ever worked for. He’s a pure, gut-bucket, instinctively brilliant journalist, who helped enormously with the pieces I wrote here and also in the print edition. He was especially good at helping me to figure out the right [...]
This from White House photographer Pete Souza, via Mark Knoller’s twitterfeed:
In my continuing effort to not write a word–to not give any additional publicity–to a certain former vice presidential candidate who has “written” a “book” this week, I’ve gone deeply afield into the Moonian recesses of the Washington Times and looked at an article by Eli Lake, who specializes in middle east reporting and does [...]
We are in the middle of Palinmania and it’s going to last a while between Oprah, Barbara Walters, the book tour and the sniping between Palin and McCain worlds. Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball last night was astounded that America – or at least the Republican base – seems to love the aw shucks candidates, [...]
