Progressives who oppose this bill are not being obstructionist. Rather, they are taking the position that when real opportunities to reform health care arise, it is essential to get it right.
While our massive health care reform package was hammered out in the back offices of the Capitol, Senators still found time to bend over backwards for the Gun Owners of America.
As The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim is reporting, Lieberman now says that Obama and the White House never pressed him on the public option: Well, no. ...
Obama's speech said three things: hey foreign leaders, we don't want foreign oil; hey China, even though we've been negotiating all year well, I'm going to scold you; and hey world: even though these are negotiations, I have nothing to offer.
Richard Nixon was the greatest peacemaker in U.S. history. He orchestrated the historic opening with Beijing. And he presided over the most significan...
I think we owe it to the Copenhagen participants to recognize that, for these two weeks, they made the debate over health care seem reasonable by comparison.
Congratulations to Senator Ben Nelson and Congressman Bart Stupak. They've made their point. Very effectively. They, and other legislators, have ut...
Dear Friends, Family and Whom it may concern: Is it almost 2010 already? 2009 has been a busy year at my house. And there's no better time than th...
The winter solstice of 2009 arrived as a grim metaphor for the current politics of healthcare, war and a lot more. "In a dark time," wrote the poet Th...
In 2008 the Left was active and engaged. We spent our time, our money, and our hearts to get Obama elected. In 2009 though, we have left him twisting in the wind.
The problem with restoring America's leadership in the world is that it takes time. Much like Wall Street focuses on short term results, so too do the polls and the attention of the American people.
As a conservative Republican I'm filled with a thrilling, unexpected hopefulness this Christmas that the president may be well on his way to losing his battle for the hearts and minds of the American people.
One-day activities, demonstrations and short-term programs targeting highly-engaged students are not going to change who gets involved with science. Obama's "Educate to Innovate" does little to remove basic barriers.
As fundamentally important as it is, the global warming drama is still not worth watching. Right now the best show in town features our esteemed leaders thrashing around on health care.
With the history of political violence we have in this country, to put it mildly, the Republicans have crossed a line and are, as Senator Coburn recently demonstrated, ready to cross it again and again.
While the Obama administration pretends that the law is a concrete inflexible animal incapable of multiple interpretations, LGBT rights in this country continue to languish. Strong leadership is needed.
Obama: "The Senate and the House bills are 95 percent identical. There's 5 percent differences, and one of those differences is the public option. But this is an area that has just become symbolic of a lot of ideological fights."
Disappointed and disaffected Democrats believe that the President of the United States should be a cross between the fairy godmother of Cinderella, an...
There are many reasons for hoping the Senate health care bill doesn't become the law of the land. But the biggest reason of all is the desperate need for a DC pattern interrupt.
Obama's best quality might be that he's not Bush, reviving optimism among those who had lost faith in the US. This sentiment is especially evident throughout Pearl Jam's latest album, Backspacer.
Nobody seems happy. Not the democrats who want to get out of Afghanistan; not the Republicans who want to bomb devils and wipe out evil.
