Last Friday, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean said something rather astounding on MSNBC. Dean said that the individual mandate, the controversial provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires people to maintain health coverage, won’t survive long enough to kick in by 2014. A court decision or political opposition will strip this [...]
Ah, the joys of special session. Today 255 House Dems and 178 House Republicans are making their way back to Washington for a 24-hour session of the lower chamber. The reason? A $26.1 billion bill providing aid to the states that the Senate finally managed to push through before adjourning last week — about half [...]
Heading into election day tomorrow, we have two interesting–but not fascinating–endorsement fights in close races. In the Georgia GOP governor runoff, we have Sarah Palin’s candidate Karen Handel against Newt Gingrich’s endorsee Nathan Deal. In the Colorado Democratic Senate primary, we have Barack Obama’s candidate, the unelected incumbent Michael Bennett, running against Bill Clinton’s endorsee [...]
One of the more strenuous tasks I perform each week is to lend my vote to the Matthews Meter for Chris Matthews’ Sunday show. This past week we were asked whether the Republicans would stick to the economic message in the fall campaign. The vote was 11-1 that they would. I was the one. Let [...]
Belated congratulations to Fareed Zakaria for returning a reward–including cash money–he received from the Anti-Defamation League because of their defamatory position on the so-called Ground Zero mosque, which is located near, not on, the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I’m sure there are plenty of enlightened people of good faith on the ADL’s Board. [...]
So…while Pakistan suffers a monumental human catastrophe because of extensive monsoon flooding, the country’s president–Asif Ali Zardari–is off having “meetings” in Paris and London and Islamist radicals are providing the bulk of relief services. Is it any wonder that we–and the elected governments in Pakistan and Afghanistan–are not doing too well over there?
I figure it was only a matter of hours before George W. Bush’s enraptured deputy propaganda minister Pete Wehner took a whack at me for writing a column about the obscene waste of the Iraq war. And sure enough, the pious janissary has come through on schedule…and for the umpteenth time he resurrects something I [...]
