President Obama is trying to get support from the Chinese for stiffer economic sanctions against Iran if, as seems likely, the Khamenei regime refuses to accept the nuclear fuel deal that it negotiated with the IAEA. This will not be easy. The Chinese are notoriously mercantilist in their foreign policy. They have business with Iran. [...]
The Chatty Cathy Principle seems like a good name for an idea that has taken root in Washington: If you are willing to spend enough money, you can get pretty much anybody to say pretty much whatever you want them to. Yesterday, we learned how the drug industry, which has been spending $609,000 a day [...]
My debate with David Frum on Bloggingheads. Not much to look at, but a good conversation.
Okay, this is a new one on me. Our colleague Sophia Yan reports that public option advocates in Connecticut have come up with a new kind of lobbying:
Despite what you may have heard, there are some small business owners who support the Democrats’ health care reform proposals – including the eight who signed their names to a Health Care for America Now press release that landed in my inbox today. (HCAN is a grassroots pro-reform group.) In my latest Time.com story, I [...]
As long-time readers of Swampland know, I am a big proponent of the filibuster. And I mean the Real Filibuster–not the make-believe ones that the little girls of the United States Senate are constantly waging, and not the occasional exercises where they pull out the fainting couches cots and pretend that they are actually going [...]
