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Health Care Summit: A Viewer’s Guide
The White House health care summit is set to begin at 10 a.m. EST today at Blair House. Kate Pickert and I will be watching throughout the six hours, and will be posting developments as we see them. Please join us here in Swampland throughout the day, and let us know what you think of the proceedings.
In the meantime, here are a few …
The NYT Drops Its Bombshell on Paterson
1,000 Words: Evoking Camelot Edition
Does this image from our White House Photo Blog look familiar?:
Intentionally or not, White House photographer Pete Souza is evokes this iconic LIFE Magazine photo from 1962:
And Speaking of Reconciliation…
NPR’s Julie Rovner debunks Republican claims that this process has never before been used to make sweeping changes in health care law. Indeed, the COBRA law that allows those who lose their jobs to continue buying their employer’s coverage is actually an acronym for (*cough*) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 …
Reconciling Themselves to Reconciliation
In Politico, Carrie Budoff Brown reports signs of a potentially important development:
Malpractice Reform
What was missing from yesterday’s White House health bill? Any new ideas that might win Republican support. That’s why I’ve been wondering if President Obama has been holding back, and might have something along these lines up his sleeve at Thursday’s health care summit.
The obvious one is malpractice reform. It’s something that …
Paging Dr. Laura
Could you please have a word with the Majority Leader of the United States Senate?
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UPDATE: Politico notes that Reid has some backing in this point from a 2004 report prepared under a National Institute of …
1,000 Words: Governator Edition
From our White House Photo Blog:
Paging Sarah Palin
Governor, would you please have a word with Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall about these comments?:
RICHMOND — State Delegate Bob Marshall of
Manassas says disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy.He made that statement Thursday at a press
conference to oppose state funding for
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Broken Government: Have I Mentioned That We Should Make Them Filibuster?
This week, in partnership with CNN, we at TIME are beginning a series of reports on “Broken Government.” It will look at the reasons that it has become so difficult to get anything done in Washington, and some ways we might fix the problem.
Regular readers of Swampland probably have already guessed what solution I’ve …
A Preview of the Obama Health Care Plan
Although we’ve been talking for more than a year about the “Obama health plan,” the fact is, there hasn’t been one–until now. The NYT got a preview of at least part of the proposal that the White House has promised to post on the internet tomorrow.
Where most of the discussion in recent months has been about the question of how to …
Evan Bayh: Make Them Filibuster
It’s happened! The first endorsement of our Make Them Filibuster campaign by a current (albeit retiring) member of the United States Senate!
Evan Bayh writes this in today’s New York Times:
For this reason, filibusters should require 35 senators to sign a public petition and make a commitment to continually debate an issue in
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