I don't know if the House will pass the Senate bill as-is. The entirety of the bill can't be passed via reconciliation (and what does get passed will be temporary and shoddy). They can finalize the...
The Only Solution for 59 Votes
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Author - Bob Cesca
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Healthcare and Massachusetts
Doesn't anyone anywhere have any solid proof that Scott Brown's impending victory has anything whatsoever to do with the healthcare reform bill? Once again, like Virginia, this is all about an...
The Stock Market Healthcare Myth Revisited
Remember when kill-billers and concern trolls like Joe Scarborough were pointing to health insurance stocks reaching a 52-month high as soon as Ben Nelson pledged to vote for the Senate bill? This...
Worst Persons
The Morning Joe panel for this: Donny Deutsch got the ball rolling, suggesting that voters may be "going back to basics" after electing an African-American president and seeing "the female candidates...
Ted Kennedy and Healthcare
Via Benen: Today could be a crucial day in the fight for reform. In the worst case scenario -- if Coakley loses, Scott Brown takes the seat and healthcare reform is killed -- healthcare reform will...
I Wonder Sometimes If Change Is Possible
I'm wondering if it's even possible for a president to create long-term sustainable change when electoral impatience is so prevalent. What we're seeing in Massachusetts is an impatience with the...
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Suicidal Tendencies
Kevin Drum: And the depth of the revolt against Obama has been striking too. As near as I can tell, there's a small but significant minority who are so enraged that they'd be perfectly happy to see...
The Big Progressive Disconnect
Here we are on the verge of losing a 60 vote supermajority in the Senate -- throwing real healthcare reform into serious jeopardy after coming this close to passing it. Even if Coakley wins, I'm...
Get Ready to Be Obnoxious, GOP Congressmen
The president's first State of the Union address is set for January 27. Which Republican will embarrass him- or herself this time?
Plan B on Healthcare
The most likely solution to passing healthcare reform if Coakley loses tomorrow appears to be this: the House passes the Senate bill, and the president signs it. The Senate agrees to pass the House...
The Progressive 'Morning in America'
E.J. Dionne makes a wonderfully excellent point in his column today: Progressives will never reach their own Morning in America unless they use the Gipper's method to offer their own critique of the...
To the Women of Massachusetts
Please turn out in massive numbers tomorrow to vote against this empty-suited idiot. The crowd responded enthusiastically as Brown made his case against AG Martha Coakley (D)—even interrupting...
Everyone Is Stupid Except TV News
On Morning Joe just now, Tom Brokaw was complaining that Americans don't know what's in the healthcare reform bill. Scarborough laughing the background. As if this is the fault of the Democrats and...
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Idiot
A Sullivan reader writes: We all want health care to pass. We all want Obama to succeed. We all want Coakley to go away. That's a problem for Coakley. That's a problem for all of us. Phenomenal...
One Year to Fix Eight
During his appearance in Boston for Marth Coakley, President Obama said something that cut through a lot of the clutter we've been hearing over the past year. He noted that the Democrats have only...
Quote of the Day
"So think of this as 2004. Are you really, really going to give Bush a second term because Kerry is so easily portrayed as an elitist hack? C'mon, Massachusetts Independents. Give the president the...
Some Thoughts on Massachusetts and Stupidity
For all of the Democratic Party's faults -- their big-tent disorganization, slowness and occasional political bungling -- they're still leaps and bounds ahead of the Republicans who deserve most of...