Month: July 2009

I don’t know if David Brooks had a couple of drinks at lunch or not, but he went on MSNBC this afternoon and claimed that he had once sat through an entire dinner with a Republican U.S. Senator’s hand in his lap....

If you could elect any superhero as president, who would it be and why?

There is yet another Baucus bipartisan health care reform story, this one from Roll Call.  While primarily a story about the fight over funding reform, this nugget is thrown in at the end: In a sign of a potential...

The former vice president would rather we not know what he said in a voluntary interview with a special prosecutor.  But he kept it out of the legal system to suit his purposes at the time, and the inconvenience of that...

I hear all kinds of excuses for why we need to maintain employer-based health care and the for-profit corporate health insurance industry, but other than a few Republicans I don’t hear people making these arguments on the...