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Ted Kennedy: The Art of the Deal

His reputation was as the fiercest of partisans, but his Senate colleagues, Democrats and Republicans alike, knew a very different Ted Kennedy. Here’s my story for TIME.com on what made him such a successful legislator.

Joe Biden Offers A Personal Tribute

Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to make a stimulus grant award announcement Wednesday morning. Instead, he gave an extended remembrance of Ted Kennedy, speaking without notes, pausing to contain his emotion, and repeatedly wiping his eyes. Said Biden:

And, you know, he was never defeatist. He never was petty. Never was petty. He

Obama Remembers Kennedy

In a statement Wednesday morning on Martha’s Vineyard, President Obama spoke of his friend and supporter Ted Kennedy.

His seriousness of purpose was perpetually matched by humility, warmth and good cheer. He compassion — passionately battled others and do so peerlessly on the Senate floor for the causes that he held dear and yet still

Grassley Knocks White House, Republican Cooperation Faltering

In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, a key Finance Committee Republican, raised serious doubts about the prospects of a bipartisan deal on health care in the Senate. He also offered a pointed criticism of Barack Obama’s hands-off strategy to health care reform negotiation, which is based on the idea that …

Obama Looks To Heavens (For Health Reform Inspiration)

The debate over health reform, most days, concerns earthly things, like spreadsheets, CBO projections, medicare reimbursements rates, and health insurance qualifications. It’s a tough one to win politically, because not just because it is so boring and complicated, but also because it’s complexity makes misrepresentation easier. So Obama …

Why August Does Not Matter

August has been bad for Barack Obama. No doubt about it. He has been stuck repeating the same talking points for a health plan that he can’t get through Congress–largely because of dissent within his own party–while the media busies itself alternately covering the virulent, if contained, backlash to his proposal, and trying to cut …

Beyond the Public Option

Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein has become an imporant voice in the health care debate, with President Obama at one point declaring him “required reading” in the White House. In today’s column, Pearlstein argues that the public plan has become a “a political litmus test imposed on the debate by left-wing politicians and …

Re: Public Droption

I agree with Joe that this development shouldn’t have been news to anyone who has been listening over the past months to what President Obama has actually had to say about the public option. Here’s what I wrote on that score last night for TIME.com.

Now, back to my vacation, where–despite my best efforts to avoid it–the saturation …

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