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Live from Aspen: the moderates’ view on Obama health reform
By Matthew Holt Paul Krugman’s article today excoriates the Blue Dogs and a former dog Billy Tauzin in particular. He also (as I did a week or so back) wonders where the Dogs were when the Bush tax...
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Health Care Reform’s Deeper Problems
By BRIAN KLEPPER and DAVID C. KIBBE Congress’ health care reform debate has highlighted how American governance is broken and the difficulty of addressing our national problems. Take, for example,...
View ArticleWill Victory on Health Care Reform Mean Defeat for the Democrats?
Being a futurist is not really about making predictions, but people ask for them anyway. So here is one: The way things are trending right now, Obama and the Democrats will succeed in getting a reform...
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Pelosi’s Hidden Tort Bomb — an Alternative View
by Charles Silver & David A. Hyman We once thought Democrats would accept tort reform to win Republicans’ support for national health care legislation. Now, however, Democrats have dispensed with...
View ArticleCoal in Your Christmas Stocking?
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Is there anyone left, on either side of the political spectrum, who wants the Senate health care bill to pass? Republican Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour had this to say about...
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The Boston Massacre
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Tuesday’s Republican victory in Massachusetts means the current Democratic health care bills will not be on the President’s desk in 2010. Forget the crazy talk of ramming something...
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Martha’s Mistakes
By JOHN MOORE Not one to comment on broader political issues but just can’t help myself today after awakening to the news that Kennedy’s Senate seat has gone to the Republican upstart Scott Brown....
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The Enthusiasm Gap
By ROBERT REICH I had dinner the other night with a Democratic pollster who told me Dems are heading toward next fall’s mid-term elections with a serious enthusiasm gap: The Republican base is fired...
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