Here’s something you won’t learn from reading headlines or obsessively watching text crawl across the bottom of the TV screen: Health care reform isn’t a horse race.
It doesn’t turn on what the latest key member of Congress said this morning…
"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges."
Here’s how much the Congressional Budget Office says a new health reform bill in the Senate would cost: $829 billion over 10 years.
The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post , Associated…
Howard Dean told a health care roundtable in Washington D.C. that the Medicare eligibility age should be lowered to 50 so that some people will be reaping benefits of health care reform before the 2010 elections, a U.S. News and World Report story.…
Mom always said to be careful what we wished for, lest we actually get it. The warning is apt now that the health care reform debate in Congress seems headed into the home stretch, or maybe just the back stretch.
Several big…
U.S. Sen. Roland Burris | AP photo
OK. That’s enough.
U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is on his fourth version of the story about pay-to-play allegations surrounding now-former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
We detailed the first three versions in an editorial today. First: No…
Sen. Judd Gregg’s withdrawal this week from his nomination to be Commerce Secretary was said to have been a surprise to the Obama administration. One issue Gregg cited was a difference of opinion on the Commerce Department losing some control…
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
So, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg wants Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. Is she qualified? The New York Times takes a look at her resume. New York Daily News takes a look at her spirit. Is this the rebirth of the Kennedy dynasty? If…
Dangerous waters.
Blackwater has a new business (via ThinkProgress).
Condi gives Pakistan the business.
Wall Street Journal says existing “intelligence policy to stay largely intact” under Obama administration. Change? Perhaps we should have seen this coming with his FISA vote.
We all knew this was coming, and…
In the latest CBS/New York Times poll, only 12 percent of the American public approved of the way Congress was doing its job.
Nevertheless, come Nov. 4, 95 percent or more of U.S. House incumbents seeking reelection are expected to keep their…
The New York Times this morning has a good piece on the ongoing Senate debate on a revamped GI Bill, which would provide more money for college tuition to war veterans. The impact of the GI Bill has…
It’s hard to think of $21 billion as pocket change. But as a fix for the subprime mortgage mess, $21 billion barely will buy a Band-Aid. Nevertheless, the Senate seems determined to push ahead with this “rescue lite” for struggling…
