Month: October 2009

If Tom Harkin is right that there are 52 votes in the Senate for a robust public option, then we should be able to get at least a version of it that has an opt-out provision for the states. The strategy I would pursue is as...

Who knows? Maybe I wrote about it at the time and have just forgotten. But I don’t remember Colin Powell’s remarks about the terrorism-industrial complex either. Seems like they should have received more...

If you want to know what the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) thinks about the public option, make sure to read Founder and CEO Al From’s column in today’s Wall Street Journal. Then note that Sen. Joe Lieberman of...

The U.S. economy is lurching towards recovery.  We continue to see nearly as many disheartening indicators as we do reasons to be optimistic, but it does appear that the worst is behind us. Even if the freefall is over,...

The Republicans have unleashed a beast that they don’t seem able to control. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the Sunshine State, where Governor Charlie Crist’s campaign for U.S. Senate is starting to look a...