Politicians Who Look Like Turkeys (PHOTOS)
Is it just us, or is the political scene overrun by guys who look like turkeys? It's probably just us, but we thought we'd compile our favorites. ...
Is it just us, or is the political scene overrun by guys who look like turkeys? It's probably just us, but we thought we'd compile our favorites. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
David Broder simply doesn't understand the way that today's Senate operates, Jim Manley concluded on Wednesday. Manley, the senior communications advi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Despite mounting pressure to pass health care legislation through a parliamentary maneuver that would allow portions to be considered by an up-or-down...
LIFE.com | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style
Text and photos from LIFE.com, where you can check out more odd social pairings at state dinners. The state dinner dates back to 1874, when Ulysses G...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Let's look at the poker hand we've been dealt on health care reform. Democrats have now officially gone from "pot committed" to "all in." The stakes, to be blunt, have been raised until they are as high as they can go.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Turkey, cranberry sauce, and a side of health care debate is dominating Thanksgiving tables this year. The debate gets more heated when some worry that their situation will be adversely affected.
Shawn Healy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
By my calculation, Senator Reid can count on 56 votes for the health care legislation as it now stands. Any attrition from this group would require Reid to reach across the aisle to recruit one or more moderate Republicans.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Given the stubborn logjam between progressives and conservatives on the public option and other issues, here are six different scenarios for what might happen next.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid sealed the biggest legislative victory of his career Saturday night with a kiss. And then a hug. Emotionally reserved doesn't begin to des...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The Senate has voted to move forward with the health care bill. The vote was 60-39 in favor of debating the bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader...
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Speaking from the Senate floor on Saturday, Majority Leader Harry Reid had some harsh words for Washington Post columnist David Broder. Reid was resp...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), AARP CEO Addison Barry Rand backed the leader's health care bill and urged the chamber to v...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid's public option is a token public option -- a fleeting gesture toward the idea of a public option, so small and desiccated as to be barely worth mentioning except that it still contains the word "public."
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the first key test vote on his $848 billion health care bill will be taken Saturday, but he declined to say whe...
Matt Osborne | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
The Republican strategy of delay escalated their misfortune; their "tea party" movement is a great, big Teabagger Fail, and the media's credibility is shot right along with them.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Ever so slowly, painfully, creakily, the Senate is beginning to move forward on debating health care reform. It will all come down to who blinks first: House progressives or Senate conservatives.
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
After all, if a public option pays for itself, and does not cost a nickel to create and operate, why not allow as many as 80 million citizens to become eligible when any bill becomes law?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...
Jerome Karabel | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Paradoxically, the filibuster -- a classic device of obstruction -- may turn out to be the unexpected pathway to health care reform.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met on Monday night with a group of Senate Democrats who urged him not to back down from his decision to put a publi...
The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legi...
Jessica Alba | Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact
Education is the most effective way to fight poverty. Every year a child is out of school is a year they lose in literacy, in health, in opportunity. 2010 is the year for a breakthrough on global education.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Nobody promised you this would be easy, Harry. But, hell, why are you there, anyway? Your responsibility is to do the right thing by the American people and bring down future health-care costs.
Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy