The policy wonks over at the Kaiser Family Foundation have been built the world’s best tool for comparing the various iterations of health care reform. Aptly called the “Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals,” it contains reliable, plain language interpretations of the House and Senate bills, plus the committee bills that came before [...]
Could you please have a word with the Majority Leader of the United States Senate? more about "Paging Dr. Laura", posted with vodpod UPDATE: Politico notes that Reid has some backing in this point from a 2004 report prepared under a National Institute of Justice grant. Still, it seems like a pretty broad indictment of [...]
The public option appears destined to die another death. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, perhaps its most consistent and passionate champion, doesn’t support its resurgence. Per the Huffington Post, here’s what Rockefeller had to say about passing a public option via reconciliation:
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Tonight the Senate will vote for cloture on Harry Reid’s stripped down jobs bill. No one knows – not Mitch McConnell and not the majority leader – if Reid will have the votes (so their offices say). But tonight’s vote is exactly the kind of thing that American voters have come to hate about the [...]
Governor, would you please have a word with Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall about these comments?: RICHMOND — State Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas says disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy. He made that statement Thursday at a press conference to oppose state funding for Planned Parenthood. “The number [...]
A year ago, I columnized in favor of legalizing–and taxing–marijuana. I proposed this as a rare gift from us Baby Boomers to our children: if we went stoned into that good night, there’d be a lot less kvetching about our aching backs and reflux and incontinence. We might make fewer needless, self-involved trips to the [...]
House Minority Leader John Boehner wasted no time in attempting to reframe the White House health care plan unveiled this morning. In a statement, Boehner called the plan “the same massive government takeover of health care based on a partisan bill the American people have already rejected.” He said the upcoming Feb. 25 health care [...]
This, by Jackson Diehl, is a pretty good summation of the coming Iraqi electoral mess–despite the reflexive, and unfounded, Obama-bashing and the tacit assumption that Iraq is, somehow, ours to “lose.” The most interesting aspect of the current election is the reappearance, like clockwork, of Ahmed Chalabi, who always seems to position himself as a [...]
