If we only had a genuinely moderate-to-conservative Republican as President, we might have a rational approach to health care reform.

Part 1 is here. Meanwhile, at least someone is happy. President Obama pushed back against critics, including the former head of the Democratic Party, who have said that the health care bill in the Senate is fatally flawed and should be scrapped altogether. In an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson, the president said he [...]

Maybe Joe Lieberman’s flaming bag o’ healthcare is what Obama really wanted. That would, of course, be more than angering enough. Maybe Joe Lieberman did, really, as the White House claims, concede to a demand of theirs (agreeing to consider a less gritty lubricant?). However, to me personally, the most infuriating thing about the status [...]

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This time (not for the first time, and probably not for the last time), it is Joe who gets to play Lucy. And, again, we are not wanting for Charlie Browns.

In the midst of the Great Recession, what’s the best way to help struggling workers? According to Fox News and the Washington Post, it’s time to cut the minimum wage.

There was some concern a few weeks back that an amendment by Sen. Al Franken to the defense appropriations bill, which would prevent the government from working with defense contractors who deny court hearings to their employees over issues like discrimination, harrassment or assault because of binding arbitration process, would be gutted during the conference committee process. Thankfully, that does not appear to be the case.

My goal has always been reconciliation, the use of the nuclear option, or the White House using its influence to back down conservative Democrats — something that hasn’t happened yet. I think this question is misleading because that is not the actual choice on the table. It is bad bill with regular order, a better bill with 50 votes in the Senate, or no bill.

Speaking with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Channel tonight, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated flatly that he would not vote for the health care bill moving through the Senate.

The results of the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, with parts leaked out by Chuck Todd, shows what polls have been showing for a long time – that without the public option, support for the health care bill on the left is collapsing. If you want to know why the White House wants to get this bill passed quickly, poll numbers like these are a good reason.