I’m joining Joe as a conscientious objector to Palinmania. (Did anyone else start twitching less than a minute into the Barbara Walters interview?) Let’s focus instead on something a little less controversial like, oh, say, the Catholic church and gay rights.
You might have read last week that the Archdiocese of Washington is …
The nation’s Catholic bishops are in Baltimore this week for their annual meeting, a gathering that should have its fair share of victory laps (health care! no abortion funding!) and skirmishes (how to deal with the Obama administration, the Kennedys, marriage, and a new translation of the prayerbook). It’s no secret that tensions have …
Here’s my Time.com story on how the biggest obstacle to passing health reform turned out to be not the tea party protests or August town halls or Michelle Bachmann Super Bowl of Freedom, but a culture war within the Democratic party.
It’s like you never left. How heated are emotions are either side of the abortion debate right now? Some pro-choice liberals have begun referring to the Stupak Amendment as the “Coat Hanger Amendment.” And Stupak himself has declared that if his language doesn’t make it into the Senate version or is altered in conference committee, “ …
Don’t the Democrats control Congress? How did Nancy Pelosi get to the point where she didn’t have enough votes in her own caucus to pass health reform unless she paved the way for language that, as Jon Cohn puts it, “mak[es] it more likely that millions of American women will no longer be able to purchase insurance that covers abortion services”?
I know it’s not sporting or even reasonable to expect Michelle Bachmann to make sense, but this was just too good not to pass along. In her floor speech just now, the good congresswoman from Minnesota just appealed to her colleagues to vote down health reform because “our forebearers are crying out for us to preserve their freedoms.” …
Once again with the health reform bill, we’re seeing how pro-life leaders manage to win popular support for their position by framing it in terms that seem quite reasonable. It’s only if you’re paying attention that you realize the description often doesn’t match the reality of what they’re proposing. To be fair, pro-choice leaders often …
Good Lord. GOP Congressman John Shadeeg just used the ultimate prop in his floor statement, hoisting six-month-old Maddie and telling his colleagues that the infant opposes the current health reform bill because, among other things, “she wants choices in her health care.” What a precocious little tyke. Maybe she could tackle immigration …
The deal was cut verrrrry late last night, so maybe the news hasn’t gotten out everywhere. When Obama arrived on the Hill to rally House Democrats to pass health reform around 11:30 this morning, his motorcade passed anti-abortion activists protesting outside with “Kill the bill!” “Kill the Pelosi bill!” signs. Yet just a few hours …
Despite the fact that solid information about yesterday’s mass shooting at Fort Hood are just starting to trickle in–heck, it was only 12 hours or so ago that we learned that the shooter wasn’t actually dead–speculation has swirled today about whether Nadal Malik Hasan’s brutal act was linked to his Muslim faith.
A much-needed lighter moment, courtesy of last night’s Daily Show, an instant classic:
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And at 11:10pm arrives the email: “DGA Looks Ahead to 2010 Election Cycle.” It was that kind of night for Democrats. Or at least that’s what it looked like a few hours ago, with Chris Christie cruising to an early victory over Jon Corzine in New Jersey and Bob McDonnell whomping Creigh Deeds in Virginia. So I switched over to watch the …
It does if you hold the organization to the same standard it uses to insist that health reform would result in publicly funded abortions.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the fungibility argument that many pro-life groups and politicians have employed to oppose health reform. The problem, they say, is that if any insurance plan that …
