Well, some Catholics. The Catholic Hospital Association (CHA) released a statement today offering tentative support for the Senate version of health reform if Senator Casey’s abortion language becomes part of the bill: “Especially now that a public health insurance option is no longer on the table, we are increasingly confident that Senator Casey’s language can [...]
is this one from Laredo, Texas
Amy’s post on Ben Nelson’s unwillingness to compromise on abortion below reminds us of a central fact: while the left blogosphere and interest groups like the Dean Family Fundraisers have been behaving foolishly these past few days, not a single liberal Senator–with the possible exception of the Senator from Blagojevich, Roland Burris–has tried to scuttle [...]
For the past few days, I’ve intended to write about the efforts to develop an abortion compromise in the Senate health reform bill. Really, I have. My editors certainly wanted me to write about it. But every time I sat down to draft something about the details of the compromise and what it would do, [...]
From the White House photofeed. It seems there were too many of those accidents on the Oval Office carpet:
I’ve just received this email: Yesterday, the media was filled with reports that Washington insiders called Governor Dean “irrational,” he’s throwing a “tantrum,” and he’s “irrelevant to the entire healthcare debate.” D.C. insiders want to frame the fight for real healthcare reform as Howard Dean vs. the White House. But this isn’t about Dr. Dean [...]
The annual Teddy Awards, for political courage. I’ll have some other awards–favorite books, movies and music of the year–coming in the next week.
Ed Kilgore, the eminently sane and estimable managing editor of The Democratic Strategist, weighs in with a smart assessment of what the past few days of intramural mudslinging between liberals and leftists on health care is really all about.
The Obama Administration’s efforts to nudge the Pakistanis into fighting the Afghan Taliban–as opposed to the Taliban who are setting off bombs within Pakistan–seems to be encountering a fair amount of pushback, not just from the military as detailed in this NY Times piece, but also from a skeptical Pakistani public, which believes, as Andrew [...]
