Steve Benen wrote a thorough memo pitching the urgency to pass the current healthcare reform legislation, a la Bill Kristol's anti-reform memo from the 1990s. This is a must read. Pass the bill...
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The Latest Very Complex Plan
This is kind of encouraging, while also being risky and complicated. EJ Dionne describes the latest plan for passing healthcare reform: So here’s an idea, I have been told reliably, that leaders of...
Without Healthcare Reform, What's the Path?
This past year, one of the most often used phrases has been "a path to single payer." While the kill-billers are busily petitioning House members to not pass the Senate bill, and demanding their...
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It's a U2 Covers theme week beginning with... Elvis Costello covering U2's "Please"
51 Healthcare Experts Agree: Pass the Damn Bill!
51 health policy experts have signed a letter to the House leadership urging them to pass the Senate bill now -- with cc's to President Obama and Harry Reid. So it comes down to this. We have to take...
Quote of the Day
"I don't mean to be rude, but if health care is the kiss of death, you've already been kissed." —Paul Begala to the House Democrats
I'm Glad Plouffe Is Around Now
I always thought he was the missing puzzle piece in the White House. For example, here's some campaign-era ballyhooing of healthcare reform from his editorial in today's Washington Post: * Pass a...
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Finish the Sausage
Political Party Pooper has an extensive post enumerating the multitude of reasons for passing the bill now. The salient point: You’ve just taken nine months of our time stuffing this bratwurst into...
A Note to the President on Healthcare
Instruct Congress to pass the bill now. Don't abandon us this easily. Just don't. Thank you, Mr. President. Respectfully, Bob
A Double Epic Fail on Healthcare
Yglesias wrote a very strong piece arguing that the House Democrats are making a huge mistake in not passing the bill. Mainly, most voters don't care about all of the different versions of the bill ...
Avoiding a 'Fiasco for the Ages'
There might be a sliver of hope for healthcare reform after all. According to Politico, Reid and Pelosi are meeting this weekend to craft a series of measures, to apparently be passed via...
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MST3K Saturday - "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" This week it's the Rifftrax guys. Kevin Murphy, Mike Nelson and Bill Corbett.
Winter Fundraiser — Last Day
And we come to the final day of the big Winter Fundraiser. It's your last chance to contribute to the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of this small corner of the liberal blogotubes. So if you haven't...
The Democrats are Almost Entirely Shut Down
Except for a few. Brian Beutler reports: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is engaged with House progressives, trying to tease out a solution to the health care reform impasse--but he says that at the...
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Well, So Much for That Idea
Via John Cole: There was some talk among Senate leadership on Thursday of putting together a letter signed by 51 Democratic senators pledging to pass a cleanup bill if the House would pass the Senate...
Olbermann's Special Comment
Regarding the Supreme Court's decision on Citizens United v. FEC:
Quote of the Week
"Pass. The. Damn. Bill. Pass. The. Damn. Bill. Pass. The. Damn. Bill." —Steve Benen
Weak, Weak, Weak
The president and the Democrats can not and must not settle for a lesser bill. But some members of Congress are floating the idea: The consensus measure would be less ambitious than the bills...