We all try to read the tea leaves, but we don’t all come to the same conclusions. For my money, there was no point in lobbying Kent Conrad and Blanche Lincoln to vote for a public option amendment to the Senate Finance...
Read MoreLast week, I did a major piece called Understanding the Strategy, wherein I made the following argument. I said that the Obama administration canvassed the Senate back in the winter and realized that they didn’t have the...
Read MoreI have to confess that I’ve never had a high opinion of John McCain. I remember Christmas 1999, when I gave one of my brothers a book by Bill Bradley and he gave me a book by Sen. McCain. I took a look, but I was...
Read MoreDo you have employer-provided health care? Do you have any idea how much it costs? Do you know how much money your employer pays into it? Have your premiums and/or co-pays gone up recently? Have you seen lower percentage raises...
Read MoreI am as guilty as anyone of occasionally using some white-hot rhetoric that probably does nothing to convince the undecided or convert opponents. It’s mainly a feature of frustration combined with a feeling that the other...
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