David Axelrod, one of Obama’s closest advisors, claims that Scott Brown’s upset victory in Massachusetts, which cost the Democrats their supermajority in the Senate, actually helped get health care reform passed. After the election, Republicans gleefully declared reform dead, since the Democrats didn’t have the votes to stop a Republican filibuster. But instead, in the […]
Today I watched a video where RNC chair Michael Steele again claimed that the US people were against the health care reform bill. And that is technically true. Even in today’s poll, only 39% favored the bill that just passed, while 59% were opposed to it (2% had no opinion). But what Steele isn’t mentioning […]
The Republicans fought against health care reform as if it were all out war, so it is no surprise that even with the bill (finally!) passing last night, they are trying to claim they will get their revenge in the November elections. A piece in the Washington Post goes so far as to claim that […]
It seems like I could almost just repeat the same article every day to describe happenings in the debate around health care reform: As usual, today the Dems announced a new procedural tactic to get health care reform passed. The GOP immediately attacked it as unconstitutional, unprecedented, unclean, unholy, and the end of civilization as […]
© Tom Toles Not to mention that the Republicans are acting like they are the defenders of Medicare, while simultaneously working to destroy it.
Rachel Maddow with some of the best coverage of health care reform I’ve seen: Note that this is a followup to this video.
© Tom Toles Not only was Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) singlehandedly blocking unemployment benefits for millions of Americans, he also put a hold on all of Obama’s nominees last week. The Senate ground to a halt, with the economy following closely. This is what some politicians will do in the name of partisan bickering. The […]
The Washington Post published a long op-ed piece by Senator Orrin Hatch, titled “Reconciliation on health care would be an assault to the democratic process”. We know the drill — he calls budget reconciliation an “arcane budget procedure” that Obama wants to use to “ram through” a bill that does those nasty things you’ve heard […]
© Joe Heller Haven’t we been dragging out health care reform for the last 60 years? Isn’t it time to actually do something?
Republicans are having a nuclear meltdown about Democrats using the budget reconciliation process to pass health care reform. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote a letter to Obama this week, urging him to rule out the possibility, saying: The use of expedited reconciliation process to push through more dramatic changes to a health care bill of […]
Less than two weeks ago, Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker at the “national tea party conference”, a conference that seemed primarily designed to make money for its organizer. But that didn’t stop her from saying things like “America is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this.” She also praised the […]
The GOP National Committee is so fired up, they’re running ads against their own members:
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