As many of you know, Mark Halperin is this babbling idiot whom Time magazine hired to cobble together this insipid web product called "The Page," whic...
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
While conservative members of the Democratic caucus threaten to block passage of health care reform if it includes a public health insurance option, a...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal memb...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commision over a myster...
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...
New York Times | CARL HULSE | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, says he is not sure he is ready to help a Democratic health care proposal clear even the most preliminary hu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
When a political campaign returns dirty donations, it usually releases a statement of some kind praising the integrity of the candidate. So why didn't...
The Washington Post | Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Moderate lawmakers are exerting their outsize influence in the divided Senate to secure changes to health-care reform legislation, potentially adding ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid boldly announced the bill would contain something public option-esque. But will a reform bill that contains as limited a measure as the opt-out plan survive the Senate?
AP | MARY FOSTER | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
(AP) NEW ORLEANS — Two civil and constitutional rights organizations called on a Louisiana justice of the peace to resign Friday after he refuse...
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
"Much has been given" to those Americans at the pinnacle of wealth. So it is only fair that "much will be required" when it comes to helping pay for health insurance for those who can't otherwise afford it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Even as I write this, President Barack Obama is telling a crowd of New Orleanians that Congress will be passing health care reform "with the help of [...
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
It is hard for boys to become men when they don't have any in their lives. For John, the Chris I know and Andrade the difference can be a male role model, a mentor.
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
ABC News has learned that President Obama will be meeting with 16 Democratic senators (and one "Independent Democrat") this afternoon at the White Hou...
New York Times | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
In his speech to Congress at 8 p.m. Wednesday, President Obama will press his case for major health care legislation, not just with lawmakers in the a...
Rob Kall | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
If Obama and Harry Reid don't "spine up," they will deserve to lose their next elections.
Dickipedia/HuffPost Comedy | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy
The Gang of Six (born July 17, 2009) is a bipartisan group of centrist and conservative Senators urging delay in consideration of health care reform, ...
TPMDC | Brian Beutler | August 27, 2009, 9:00AM | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Speaking before what was described as a friendly crowd at the Monroe Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Sen. Mary Landrieu said she was opposed to much of...
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
The lawmakers doing the bidding for Big Agribusiness simply don't get that the American public wants to see all animals treated humanely, including animals raised for food.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media