The healthcare bill is not being passed by reconciliation. The House is going to pass the Senate bill and then the bill will have been passed by both chambers of Congress and the President can sign it into law. Reconciliation is being used to pass some fixes to the bill that the House wants in [...]
It would be impossible for me to pick who I dislike more, David Broder or Dana Milbank. It is very much possible for me to enjoy when one calls the other out in the paper, as Broder did the other day:
From too many years of covering politics, I have come to believe as Axiom One [...]
Newt Gingrich on Congressional staffers (via):
Of course it’s the nature of the modern Congress, which hires lots of nice young staffers who have never had a real job, who spent their entire life being arrogant to visitors from back home, who end up thinking they know a lot because they stay up until 3 o’clock [...]
Bob Herbert in today’s Times:
I always wondered why Howard Zinn was considered a radical. (He called himself a radical.) He was an unbelievably decent man who felt obliged to challenge injustice and unfairness wherever he found it. What was so radical about believing that workers should get a fair shake on the job, that [...]
Lets all just stop beating around the bush and call a spade a spade: Joe Lieberman is an idiot. Most people kinda knew this in regards to his views on foreign policy but the healthcare debate has clarified that he’s also quite an idiot on domestic issues too. Here’s Jon Chait expanding on that thought:
I [...]
I watched some of the House debate on healthcare last Saturday. It was fairly boring to be honest but one thing you do notice, when you listen to these people give their speeches, is how much repetition there is. It really is all about saying the same talking points over and over. And as the [...]
Now this would have been must see tv (via):
Bubba and Dubya are going to engage in a presidential debate for the ages.
Former President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will square off on the same stage at Radio City Music Hall in February as part of a series pitting liberal and conservative thinkers.
The event is [...]
I only just got around to reading this Frank Rich op-ed from three weeks ago but I enjoyed it enough to share here. This really says it all:
Perhaps the most surreal aspect of our great Afghanistan debate is the Beltway credence given to the ravings of the unrepentant blunderers who dug us into this hole [...]
Good ole Newt “Newt” Gingrich was asked the other day if he was going to run for President in 2012. Here’s what the man said:
“Callista and I are going to think about this in February 2011. And we are going to reach out to all of our friends around the country. And we’ll decide, if [...]
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