He may be new to the blog, but you’re probably familiar with his excellent work. We previously posted stories of his here, here and here. And now you get to enjoy his talents full time. Alex has worked as an editor and writer in New York, done a stint in the London office and is [...]
National poll numbers released today affirm what primary run-ups have been suggesting: that the Tea Party has every potential of becoming the Republicans’ savior or Ralph Nader in the upcoming elections. Of the 1,907 registered voters surveyed by the Quinnipiac University Polling Center, 44% said they would vote Republican and 39% said they would vote [...]
Pete Wehner, who learned the art of selective fact-slinging at the feet of Karl Rove, still thinks the sky is falling on Barack Obama. He cites fellow Bush-dweller Peter Feaver–best known for suggesting that public opinion would turn on the Iraq war if the President used the word “victory” over and over again. Feaver, in [...]
How brilliantly unfair to take Minority Leader John Boehner out of context. It was quite a performance, and worth watching in full.
The passage of health care reform has, rightly, stolen most of the media oxygen this week, but there’s also been a visit from Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, despite an eloquent (if wrong-headed) speech to the AIPAC lobbyists, this has not been a very successful week for him. As the Times points out today, [...]
Right-wing extremists are threatening Democrats who voted for health care reform with violence. This, after Congressman John Lewis was called a “nigger” and Barney Frank was called a “faggot.” This, after Congressman Randy Neugebauer called Bart Stupak a “baby killer” and, essentially, refused to take it back. The Republican Party has to be very careful [...]
From my new story on Time.com: The health-insurance industry, which spent months campaigning against Democratic health reform, has shifted focus in the wake of its passage, pivoting from opposition to making sure the new law succeeds beyond most expectations. America’s Health Insurance plans will participate in a new group, provisionally called “Enroll America,” to encourage [...]
With the help of TIME’s Katy Steinmetz: The last few weeks Senate Republicans were all sturm und drang. “The American people are getting tired of this crap,” Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican told ABC’s This Week. “If [Democrats do reconciliation], it’s going to poison the well for anything else they would like to achieve [...]
A dispatch from our colleague Alex Altman: Less than an hour after President Obama signed the health-care reform bill into law, attorneys general from 13 states filed a lawsuit challenging the bill’s constitutionality. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, acting on behalf of 13 states, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Pensacola, alleging that the [...]
