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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...
Art Levine has a good post on the AFL-CIO's opposition to taxing insurance benefits. He links to an ad they've released (pdf) that says, in bold letters, "IT IS JUST WRONG TO PUT THE BURDEN OF PAYING FOR HEALTH-CARE REFORM ON MIDDLE-CLASS...
Tim Carmody looks back on the joyously remembered "Happy Days" era, particularly when set in opposition to the chaos and uncertainty of the Facebook generation:
It’s memory as ideology, created (whether consciously or unconsciously) to...
Neil Sinhababu agrees with Michelle Malkin's argument that conservatives should purge moderates from their party. But what do you call the sort of agreement that relies on sharp disagreement about both end goals and the means to achieve them?
We've...
One of the quirks of American politics in the '90s was that though power changed hands in Washington a number of times, the region in power remained pretty constant. Washington, as Kevin Drum notes, was almost completely controlled by Southerners:...
