In comments almost certain to rankle Republicans on Capital Hill, Sen. John McCain's 2008 campaign manager Steve Schmidt accused the GOP on Friday of having...
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One of the nation's most powerful union leaders warned conservative Democratic senators on Thursday that there would be a "price to pay" if they voted...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who will have wide control over reconciling two versions of health care legislation in the Senate, told local constituents on...
Senator John McCain predicted on Thursday that health care reform legislation would pass Congress without GOP input or support, insisting that the partisan warfare erupting...
President Obama has allowed the term "public" in "public option" to be hijacked and perverted by greedy privateers for whom democracy is a dirty word and public a synonym for bureaucracy.
The health care debate is a fight over who gets what. It is a battle between the health insurance industry and the rest of us -- as consumers, as patients, as taxpayers.
John McCain is a guy who's not only on (his) message, unlike the eloquent and seemingly unprepared-for-this-battle Obama administration, but keeps his town hall audience there with him.
While it is great to see people like Schmidt so dramatically shift their positions on such a hot-button political issue as gay marriage, we should all clearly realize see this for what it is: political ambulance chasing.
Business as usual for Hemsley and UnitedHealth is a chronic pattern of abuse and neglect of its policy-holders, along with a powerful political influence-peddling operation that involves costly campaign contributions.
Conservatives are experts at taking peripheral, obscure components of legislation and blowing them up into evidence of a government plot to kill your newborns and serve them as pork burritos to illegal immigrants.
Whether they're cynical postures or sincere beliefs doesn't matter: ruthless opposition and dingbat delusions are the currency of right-wing success, and sand in the gears of democracy.
The Trujillos' story punctuates the perverse incentives built into the current health care system, which leaves employers with choices no better than workers'.
I talked with Congressman Alan Grayson in detail about his efforts to stop the government cash flow to contractors that cheat the government and overcharge the American taxpayers.
The healthiest approach to our health care system is to begin by reducing its enormous waste and fixing its glaring inefficiencies. Only then can we truly have a reformed health care system.
Is rapid change really repulsive? A hundred years ago, thousands of British and American women decided they had waited long enough for political justice and they joined the Suffragette Movement.
CBS has recently released a series of emails between Palin and McCain strategist Steve Schmidt that happened during the campaign. The date? Joe the Plumber minus three hours.
A new compromise has been floated for the public health insurance option: it's not co-ops, it's not a trigger, it's a provision that allows defiant states to opt out of offering the program to consumers.
It is clear that if we are to win the change we voted for last fall, and that many of us have worked for for years, we are gonna have to fight hard, and fight outside the normal Washington lobbying box.
The Vast Right Wing's resistance to change that has fueled hatred of past Democratic Presidents has been turbo-charged by the nitroglycerin of American politics -- race.
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