No Health Care Bill is Better Than a Bad Bill
Pelosi's health care bill (HR 3962) will not fundamentally reform U.S. health care. This bill is not good enough to pass. We need Medicare for All.
Pelosi's health care bill (HR 3962) will not fundamentally reform U.S. health care. This bill is not good enough to pass. We need Medicare for All.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Those fighting for a "robust" public option need to finally accept the hard truth that Barack Obama is not an ally. He's an obstacle.
Duncan Quirk | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy
Since it's been so long since my last comic, I thought I'd share this little picture I took at the laundromat. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Nancy Pelosi is ready to rumble. The House Speaker told her Democratic caucus Tuesday night that she plans to bring a health care reform bill with a r...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
The specific language used by the NRCC in its latest statement reveals the contempt with which it holds not just Speaker Pelosi, but also some of the basic ideas on which our democracy rests.
Nancy Snow | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Many Americans are talking back to government, some more viciously than the majority, but Pelosi's broad brush seems to paint all Obama administration critics as potential violent offenders and inciters.
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
The 2010 congressional elections will be the "toughest midterm elections Democrats have ever faced," Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged toda...
politico.com | DAVID ROGERS | | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined a doubled-edged message for selling health care reform in August: one part pro-consumer and the second, attacking the he...
Congressional Quarterly | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called health insurers "the villains" in the unfolding story of the health care overhaul on Thursday, ratcheting...
Don McNay | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business
I've had my own angry, screaming battles with my health insurance carrier. It seems everyone I've talked to has had a similar experience. I just don't see them marching on Washington about it.
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
One of the most infuriating aspects to the issue of healthcare reform is the lack of honest debate by our public officials.
Kim Stagliano | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Good God in heaven - it's been a rough week for anyone who loves a person with autism. I'm rather fond of three girls with autism, my daughters Mia, G...
Rep. Bill Cassidy | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Transparency, accountability, and rigorous oversight are the keys to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in government. They are also the keys to regaining taxpayers' trust.
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Now that the House members have proposed legislation, it seems fair that I take a few minutes to talk about what they appear to have gotten right.
The Page | Mark Halperin | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business
The Page has some details on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plans to form an investigative panel on the financial crisis in the style of the Pecora Commission...
The Hill | Silla Brush and Jared Allen | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
Democratic and Republican leaders have yet to nominate a single person to the high-profile commission aimed at investigating the financial crisis, eve...
Reuters | Matthew Goldstein | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business
Even as Ponzi king Bernard Madoff goes away to prison for the rest of his life and then some, there are still so many unanswered questions -- both big...
Reuters | Karey Wutkowski | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan panel armed with subpoena power to investigate causes of the Wall Street meltdown is on the brink of being launche...
The Plum Line | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
The pollster for the House GOP leadership has conducted a poll to determine the effectiveness of one of the GOP's leading attacks on Nancy Pelosi -- ...
Robert Naiman | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Who has the greatest power over whether Members of the House will be allowed to vote on the McGovern bill? Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House.
Bob Burnett | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
Since voters rebuffed John McCain in November, Republicans have turned to their own axis of evil -- Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Limbaugh -- as their public face.
CNN | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
House Republicans have launched a coordinated public relations blitz against 17 congressional Democrats that seeks to tie them to House Speaker Nancy ...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
In newsrooms and studios, hearts are a-twitter/The sharks begin circling, they've spotted their prey,/There's sweat on your forehead, there's blood in the water,/They're ready to rip into each word you say.
AP | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
House Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whethe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
House Republicans aren't opposed to investigating what government officials knew about U.S. torture practices, as long as those officials are Nancy Pe...
John Geyman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics