Democrats in Congress have just proudly signed a deal with the Catholic bishops which allows a bunch of old men who have spent the better part of the last century avoiding their own sexual issues to dictate access to abortion services in the House health care bill.

No tax...

As a three-time breast cancer survivor, I have a strong personal stake in health care reform. So when students from the American Medical Students Association wrote us at PublicOptionPlease.com and told me about their campaign to keep biologic "drugs of the future" available and affordable, I was eager...

There was much celebration on Capitol Hill today with the announcement of the new House health care bill. For myself, as a three time breast cancer survivor, there was tremendous sadness and disappointment in the Speaker.

Nancy Pelosi made a choice with regard to the lifesaving biologic drugs I...

The public option has received the lion's share of attention in the health care debate, but there is an equally important issue relating to generic drugs that could mean innovative, lifesaving drugs remain too expensive for all but the wealthy.

Biologics are drugs made from living organisms, and they...

The Huffington Post reports that Harry Reid is working the phones because he's "just one or two Senate votes shy of having a filibuster-proof majority in favor of a public option for health insurance coverage with a provision allowing states to opt-out."

"One or two votes shy?" That means...

President Obama has been desperate to ditch the public option for weeks.  Max Baucus did the job he thought he was supposed to do -- memorialize the deals that the White House cut with health care industry stakeholders.  He left it to the White House to sell it, and...

Harry Reid is losing in the polls in his own state of Nevada to almost any GOP opponent for the 2010 Senate race, and Danny Tarkanian leads him 49-38 in the polls. Charlie Cook just downgraded his 2010 race to a tossup.

But that brings up an interesting...

The President did a great job last night making the case to the nation of the need for health care reform.  He made the moral case, and every metric indicates that people were overwhelmingly moved to support his plan. That's the good news for the White House.

The not so...

The headline in The Hill says it loud and clear:

 Obama picks public option fight with liberals

Many people are rightly upset that the White House is sending stronger and stronger signals that they are willing to jettison a public option.  What was once the defining...

If you got your information from Wyatt Andrews on CBS News last night, you would believe that "angry protesters" are cropping up "everywhere Democrats are trying to defend health care reform."  You would think that "conservative websites" like Freedomworks are organizing these ordinary Americans, based on "real fear over the...

At a time when many are questioning President Obama's commitment to transparency, he has announced that he wants to give more power to oversee systemic risk in the economy to the very non-transparent Federal Reserve:

Obama, in an interview shown on the CBS Early Show, said...

The Washington Post headline reads "Calif. Aid Request Spurned By U.S.":

The Obama administration has turned back pleas for emergency aid from one of the biggest remaining threats to the economy -- the state of California.

Top state officials have gone hat in hand to the administration,...

Jim McGovern on the supplemental appropriations bill, May 14 2009:

What is the exit strategy that brings our servicemen and -women home? Until someone gives me a credible answer, I will be voting "no."

Jim McGovern, June 10 2009:

We need to demand benchmarks and...

I can't understand for the life of me how Jim Cooper, Mr. Fiscal Purity, who brags that he will not submit any earmark requests for fiscal 2009, can now say he's going to vote "yes" on the supplemental.

Cooper voted "no" on the supplemental the first time...

In 2007, 82 Democratic members of Congress signed a pledge. They would never again vote to fund the war in Iraq without plans for troop withdrawal.

Republican critics accused them of demagoguing the war. Of using our soldiers as a political pawns, of not meaning what they said.

Those...

James Kwak cites Chrysler's May sales figures as proof that his predictions of last December are correct, and that a poll which indicated 91% of Americans wouldn't buy a car from a bankrupt Chrysler was just poorly worded:

In May - during which Chrysler was in...

Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post that President Obama is "killing the progressive movement."

He comes to this conclusion after observing lower turnout for this year's America's Future Now conference. But anyone who lived through the Clinton years should have been able to predict that if a Democrat...

New compromise measures supported by Diane Feinstein and Arlen Specter may pave the way for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).

With 900,000 union members in the state of Pennsylvania, the Arlen Specter firewall appears to be crumbling.  He knows he can't win a Democratic primary...

John Kerry's Senate Committee hearing on the future of journalism evidently turned into a bunch of self-congratulatory wanking about how important newspapers are to our American way of life:

"High-end journalism is dying in America," testified David Simon, creator of HBO's "The Wire," who wore an open-collar...

There were already serious objections to the use of torture when the Bush administration made it legal in 2002 -- FBI chief Robert Mueller refused to let his agents participate in the CIA's "coercive interrogations" in June of that year, well before the Bybee memo made them...