Based on his 2009 record, John Shadegg of Arizona is tied with five other Republicans as the most conservative member of the House.
Yesterday morning, being interviewed on MSNBC by David Shuster, Shadegg ended up making a statement that would put him to the left of many Congressional Democrats: that he would support a single [...]
Who would have thought Crazy Kucinich had it in him?
Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, said today that he plans to support the health care bill when it comes up for a vote this week. He becomes the first Democrat to publicly disclose his intention to switch from a “no” to a “yes” vote [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about Graham going crackers over healthcare reform being passed by reconciliation. According to him, that would “destroy the ability of this country to work together for a very long time.”
Apparently, there’s lot of this going around. The latest to display symptoms of the infection is Brian Darling, of the conservative [...]
Senator Lindsey Graham, on ABC’s “This Week“:
When it comes to health care, he’s been tone-deaf, he’s been arrogant and they’re pushing a legislative proposal and a way to that legislative proposal that’s going to destroy the ability of this country to work together for a very long time.
The “he”, of course, is President Obama. [...]
Democrats have just had a great idea. Healthcare reform is so precariously poised that reasonable people can’t even agree whether it’s a coin flip at this point or a long shot. It’s a complicated, messy situation, fragile in the extreme.
So, hey, why not just go ahead and complicate it further?
Democratic leaders [...]
This has got to be embarrassing. On ThinkProgress yesterday, Zaid Jilani wrote:
Costa Rica’s system of universal coverage is so effective that it actually ranks one slot above the United States in the World Health Organization’s ranking of health systems worldwide while actually spending less per capita than we do.
When you click on that second [...]
When healthcare reform talk turns to the issue of controlling the runaway increase in our healthcare costs, there’s a lot of talk about the profits and CEO salaries and administrative costs of health insurance companies. And there’s talk about bending the Medicare cost curve over time by subtle and indirect means. For some [...]
Last we checked, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Whip James Clyburn were on different pages when it came to whether there are enough votes in the House to pass a healthcare reform bill anytime soon.
Pelosi was alleged to have “signaled to the White House that it’s unclear if there are enough votes in the House [...]
Republicans have been talking ad nauseam about how just plain wrong it is for Democrats to consider passing healthcare reform through the reconciliation process.
This may not be quite as ridiculously dishonest as the death panels nonsense, but it’s really not a whole lot better. And it’s much easier to ridicule.
Democrats don’t need to pass [...]
For a blogger who has won a Polk Award, Josh Marshall sure can be embarrassingly naive at times. Take this post:
You’ve got several members of the GOP Congressional leadership today saying that they believe the Health Care Reform bill is actually unconstitutional: Grassley, Boehner and others.
Not only is the idea preposterous in itself. But [...]
