A story from me today about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s whip style as we head into the final sprint on health care.
Domestic Policy
The Call: Health Care and What’s Next
This week’s podcast features Jay, Kate and Michael discussing the politics of health reform and what will happen after its pivotal test on Sunday. Enjoy:
Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown
This is becoming a rather difficult week for the wingnuts. Glenn Greenwald details the insanity prevailing among the neocons on the question of Israeli settlements. But the froth-at-the-mouth-rabidity seems to be increasing across the board…and the reason for this is the probable passage of the health care reform legislation on Sunday …
What Happened to Si Se Puede?
This has not been a good political week for the Hispanic community. Hispanic leaders in the House caved to Democratic pressure and endorsed the health care bill expected to be voted on in the House this Sunday. The Hispanic Caucus has long been opposed to the Senate version because it would bar illegal immigrants from using their own …
The Bismarck Bank Job, A Bungle Going Down
House and Senate Democrats gave Republicans a gift Wednesday by including the following phrase in its summary of the new health reform bill:
Section 2213. Agreements with State-Owned Banks. This section amends Part D of Title IV to direct the Secretary to enter into an agreement with an eligible lender for the purpose of providing
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Finally, White House Messaging You Can Dance To
How long we have all waited for this. . .
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Morning Must Reads: Pelosi’s Moment
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
—Kate explains the latest CBO score and where health reform stands as of now on the Hill. She hears Speaker Pelosi is “feeling ultra bullish.”
–Whip Clyburn sounds confident as well.
–The final vote will likely take place sometime after 2 pm Sunday.
–The San Francisco Chronicle …
Abortion and Health Reform
All along, the argument over abortion coverage has missed the mark, in my view. It has been all about how abortion is paid for, when what most people would like to see are fewer abortions.
No one has addressed the question of whether reforming the health care system would make a difference in the number of abortions performed in …
Reconciliation Bill
Text is here. No, I haven’t read it yet.
(The English-language version is the committee report, also linked above.)
The Other Public Option (Cont’d.)
I’m still going through the CBO document, but one thing that jumps out: It would shift another 1 million people out of the exchanges and into Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.* The Governors are not going to be happy. Here is an earlier look I took at this issue. Also, Kate and I wrote about this subject in a …
Morning Must Reads: Start the Clock
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
–Democrats just released preliminary CBO numbers on the last health care tweaks: $940 billion price tag, deficit reduction by $130 billion in the first decade and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years. That squares with their goals and — assuming the Rules markup goes smoothly, they have …
The Nuns V. The Bishops
Okay, fellow Catholic school alums, which side would you put your money on to prevail in this one?:
WASHINGTON — Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama’s health care plan, in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion.
Some 60 leaders of religious orders representing
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1,000 Words: Swing Vote Edition
The latest from our White House Photo Blog. Anyone else suspect the Democrats might be warming up to that whole Department of Peace idea?
