After a year of watching Congress wrangle, deal, twist and tussle over comprehensive health care reform, the Obama Administration finally released its own blueprint today. The release comes three days before a bipartisan summit on the issue that the White House is hoping will be a game changer. The White House “plan” contains many of [...]
This week, in partnership with CNN, we at TIME are beginning a series of reports on “Broken Government.” It will look at the reasons that it has become so difficult to get anything done in Washington, and some ways we might fix the problem. Regular readers of Swampland probably have already guessed what solution I’ve [...]
Doyle McManus of the LA Times, who also attended the US-Islamic Forum in Doha last week, saw pretty much the same conference that I did. Especially the need to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I’ll have more on the stalled middle east negotiations in my print column this week.
…after 10 days in the Middle East and watching the Sunday morning talk shows. A few thoughts: –It certainly was fun watching Governors Schwarzenegger and Rendell carve into pieces the puerile speeches delivered at the CPAC convention. The bites from Mitt Romney–who said not one net new private sector job had been created by the [...]
It’s happened! The first endorsement of our Make Them Filibuster campaign by a current (albeit retiring) member of the United States Senate! Evan Bayh writes this in today’s New York Times: For this reason, filibusters should require 35 senators to sign a public petition and make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, [...]
CPAC this year is younger than ever and, as Katy Steinmetz and I discovered, young = party!
“As of now, I am in control here in the White House.” It is a pity that he will be most remembered for this unfortunate sound bite, from March 30, 1981. It was an inaccurate assertion that the then-Secretary of State made to reporters in the White House briefing room, after gunman John Hinckley nearly [...]
Tiger Woods has apologized. He has apologized for stupid things he did in private with consenting adults. He has been publicly humiliated and punished financially–and yet, it can be argued that the things he did hurt no one outside his immediate family. He did not break the law; he did behave foolishly; he will suffer [...]
