President Obama was criticized for not convincingly selling his health care bill to the American people last year. He should have focused his message on the need for innovation and research.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON - Capping a long day and a consuming political journey, President Barack Obama celebrated the passage of health care legislation with hugs,...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Victory within reach, President Barack Obama rallied House Democrats on Saturday for a final health care push, and party leaders appeare...
The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 05.25.2011
Joseph Cao was hailed six months ago as the future of the GOP. Yesterday, he voted to rebuke Joe Wilson. Can the most endangered Republican in the Hou...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Caught off guard, congressional Democrats are grappling with President Barack Obama's unexpected call for immediate access to insur...
NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 05.25.2011
When downstate Republican Congressman John Shimkus walked out on the president's health care speech last week, he might have walked into an actual re-...
Capitol Briefing | Posted 05.25.2011
With a political arms race in full force, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) has raised almost $750,000 in less than 48 hours since his shout of "You lie!" to P...
Washington Post | Eugene Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011
Anyone who watched Wednesday night as President Obama explained his health-care reform proposals to Congress saw a chief executive making what sounded...
Vicki Iovine | Posted 11.17.2011
When I heard that the same parents who fail to go to Open House Night to meet the teachers who spend every day teaching our kids decided that watching the President of the United States address them was something they could not allow, I staggered.
Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011
Joe Wilson's thuggishness on Wednesday night and the conservative movement's embrace of his action yesterday are just the latest examples of Calhoun Conservatism.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
While U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) has been pilloried for yelling at President Obama during his address to Congress Wednesday evening, one of his Repub...
Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama is saying to those of us who are already convinced: I put the ball back on the field. It's your job to get it over the goal line.
New York Daily News | By Michael Mcauliff and Kenneth R. Bazinet | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON - President Obama energized House liberals with talk of a public health care option, but fell short of capturing the hearts of Republicans ...
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.17.2011
This week I underwent a colonoscopy with cameras rolling in an attempt to remind people that a screening colonoscopy can save your life.
Zack Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
From here forward, the health care bill that the President will sign should be named 'The Character of Our Country Health Care Reform Plan'.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Polls suggest that President Obama's address to Congress on health care reform had a positive effect on shifting public opinion. A CNN/Opinion Resea...
Lois Quam | Posted 05.25.2011
Like many supporters of a new public option health plan sitting in the House gallery, I was gratified to hear the President reiterate his continued support for creating such a plan.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011
People across America were stunned that Rep. Joe Wilson could be so rude, so thoughtless, so disrespectful. Not me. I just figured he thought he was at a Democratic town hall meeting.
Posted 05.25.2011
Last night we asked Huffington Post readers to share their thoughts about President Obama's health care speech. A huge number of people responded, exp...
Talking Points Memo | Brian Beutler | Posted 05.25.2011
What did conservative Republicans think of President Obama's health care speech last night? Not very much, apparently. Sen Orrin Hatch (R-UT)--who, yo...
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011
The other night, Joe Wilson etched his political legacy into the wall of American history. He will forever be the poster child that symbolizes the new Republican Party.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
First Lady Michelle Obama will be watching as President Obama delivers his health care speech before Congress on Wednesday night. She'll be joined in ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
George Stephanopoulos, ABC News I...think this might have been the most emotional speech I've ever seen President Obama give. He was right on the edg...
Posted 05.25.2011
You don't have to watch Obama's speech alone. We're hooking you up with twelve Twitter feeds from journalists and politicians so you can see who is po...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Shaking off a summer of setbacks, President Barack Obama summoned Congress to enact sweeping health care legislation Wednesday nigh...
Jim Jaffe | Posted 06.14.2011