My recap of where things stand, from the new issue of dead-tree TIME.
I should have linked to this days ago, but Nancy Gibbs’ excellent column about the horrific incidence of rape in the military describes a situation every bit as outrageous and depressing as the incidence of military suicides.
Sometimes Washington is just too weird and confusing even for those of us who, for a living, try to understand the place. For example, I am completely mystified by the current spate of stories about Rahm Emanuel. Here’s today’s edition, a good one by the New Republic’s Noam Scheiber. Yesterday’s was a long profile in [...]
Today’s speech by President Obama was not the first in which he’s urged passage of comprehensive health care reform, but he’s hoping it will be his last. We’ll see. Flanked by health care workers and wearing a bipartisan purple tie – a rarity for him – President Obama delivered remarks that carried a theme of [...]
Here’s a new story from me on the Senate Parliamentarian who’ll be refereeing the process of reconciliation on health care reform. Apparently, Republicans — and keep in mind, Alan Frumin was hired by Trent Lott — aren’t waiting for the process to begin. They’re preemptively calling his foul.
As the House prepares for its final push on health care, there are Democratic members, particularly those from conservative districts, who are facing a hard truth: This is the kind of vote that can end a career. I’ve found myself thinking a lot lately about one of the most extraordinary spectacles I have ever witnessed [...]
Charlie Rangel today announced he’ll temporarily lay down the gavel to the Ways & Means Committee, Congress’s top tax writing panel, after being admonished by the Ethics committee for two corporate sponsored trips to the Caribbean. So, the question is: who succeeds him? ABC News reported that Michigan’s Sander Levin, the No. 3 Democrat on [...]
