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How you'll judge Max Baucus's framework depends on how you understand the goal of health-care reform. Insofar as the effort is aimed at filling in the cracks of the current system — making it more affordable, more transparent and less cruel...
One of the questions a lot of people asked amid the hysterics of August was why, if these town halls were astroturfed shout-fests, were members holding them at all? The answer appears to be simple: They largely weren't astroturfed shout-fests. Bu...
This is health-care reform's endgame, or close to it. Next Wednesday, Barack Obama will give a prime-time address before both houses of Congress. But that's not all he's giving Congress. The administration is going to put a plan down on p...
"Look at Canada," says Charles Krauthammer. "Look at Britain. They got hooked; now they ration. So will we."
So do we. This is not an arguable proposition. It is not a difference of opinion, or a conversation about semantics. We ...
Joe Lieberman's heterodoxies were, for a time, quite contained. He might have been a Kristol-ite neoconservative on foreign policy, but he remained a Connecticut liberal on domestic and social policy. That was before Ned Lamont's challenge, a...
The more I chew over it, the more I think my dissatisfaction with last night's speech was that it was an argument for a strategy in Afghanistan, not this strategy in Afghanistan.
Take the 30,000 troops. "The 30,000 additional troops that I'm...
There's been talk lately that the White House is going to use some of the remaining or returning TARP funds to cut the deficit. Amidst double-digit unemployment, this is a bit like a family buried beneath overdue debt deciding to save a big bonus for...
Yesterday, I wondered why I wasn't hearing more from deficit hawks like the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget on Obey's war surtax. Turns out it's because I didn't know they had a blog. (And today, they followed up with a news release). So...
Most of the energy in the Senate right now is being directed into a mad rush for compromise proposals on the public option. This reflects the sense that the right compromise on the public option is a compromised public option. That's true to an extent,...
