TIME’s Sophia Yan has a dispatch from the frontlines of the PR war underway in the health care reform debate. It’s now or never for health care reform and all interested parties know it — including Health Care for America Now, a grassroots reform advocacy group. In the past year, HCAN has urged Americans to [...]
Third Floor U.S. Senate The GOP Senate conference is downstairs having their weekly policy lunch on the second floor of the Senate. I hear Kentucky’s Jim Bunning is getting an earful in the meeting and rumors are swirling that he may cave and accept Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s offer to have a vote on [...]
Jim Bunning is doing all of us a favor. As this comment from the Number 2 Senate Republican, Jon Kyl of Arizona, makes clear, the Republicans are turning toward a form of reactionary radicalism that is well to the right not only of traditional conservatism, but also of post-Victorian concepts of government and–not to put [...]
Something amazing has happened here on Swampland today. A great many military people–some downrange, others deployed here at home–have taken the opportunity to have a real conversation about this incredibly painful subject. I’d like to thank all of you for your honesty…And I’d like to make one thing clear to Swampland newcomers: I’ve never served [...]
Everybody is trying to count votes. The AP sniffs out 10 Dems who say they are open to switching their votes in favor of reform. Ten House Democrats say they have not ruled out the possibility of switching their earlier “no” votes to “yes” on the big health care overhaul. That’s giving Democrats a glimmer [...]
Matt Drudge is trying to imply that, in addition to being a foreigner, a socialist and a Muslim, the President is also an alcoholic…but Ed Whelan–of The Corner, of all places–calls him out. For the record, drinking is a leading indicator of success in the presidency. FDR stirred up a pitcher of martinis every night.
Campaign Diaries has taken a long, hard look at the House and published a rundown of members who are potential swing votes on health care. (The Democrats’ current strategy appears to have the House pass the Senate bill and then have both chambers pass a package of changes to that underlying legislation via simple majority.) [...]
CBN’s David Brody has the scoop that Ralph Reed, the master Republican strategist who TIME once called “The Right Hand of God” in a cover story, is looking at a congressional run this fall in a safe Republican district. Now Reed is not much of a gambler, but I would not bet against him. Before [...]
