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.…

Nancy Pelosi had strong comments about the public option today.

I hope she prevails.

Tom Daschle talks like a liberal but works like a lobbyist. He’s working behind the scenes to kill health care reform.

And The Wall Street Journal gets right to the point with…

The Dallas Morning News reports that another Obama cabinet appointee has been negligent in paying all of his taxes.

Ron Kirk, the former Dallas mayor who was nominated to be the U.S. trade representative in the Obama administration, failed to pay taxes…

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So much for the well-oiled Obama machine.

On Tuesday, two weeks into his administration, President Barack Obama accepted former Sen. Thomas A. Daschle’s withdrawal as his nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services and former management consultant Nancy Killefer’s…

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With health care near the top of its agenda, the administration of President-elect Barack Obama is planning to hold a series of town hall meetings across the country in coming weeks. The purpose is to solicit ideas and…

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It is a quadrennial Beltway ritual: an incoming administration’s selection of cabinet secretaries, top department officials and senior White House staff. The Obama presidency-in-waiting is cranking at full throttle on this essential…