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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:11:00 GMT

Defending Supreme Paranoia

Jonathan Bernstein dismisses my fears that the Supreme Court might overturn health care reform: Accepting for the sake of argument that Bush v. Gore was arbitrary, I would say that if so it basically stands alone; I'm not aware of any other case in which
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:11:00 GMT

Shields and Brooks Tackle Nervousness over Pending Health Reform Vote

JIM LEHRER: And how it all looks to , syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks. It's going to happen, Mark? MARK SHIELDS: It's going to happen, Jim. I think there's a good chance of it's happening, but I -- it's far from
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:02:00 GMT

Health Care Cassandra Update

Ten to one? I agree that the outlook appear solid and the democrats appear to have some options -- deal with Stupak, go around Stupak, maybe do something on abortion that can satisfy most of his bloc. But each of those approaches also carries some risk
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:11:00 GMT

Skowronek On The Progresive Style

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:05:00 GMT

Andy Borowitz: Teabaggers' New Protest: "No Government Takeover of Congress"

WASHINGTON () - With just hours until the historic vote on , the Tea Party movement has taken up a new battle cry, protesting what they believe is a "government takeover of Congress." Thousands of self-styled Teabaggers marched on the Capitol today to
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:36:00 GMT

Vital Center

Here is the ultimate paradox of the Great Health Care Showdown: Congress will divide along partisan lines to pass a Republican version of health-care reform, and Republicans will vote against it. Yes, Democrats have rallied behind a bill that large
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:34:00 GMT

Saints Preserve Us

On Friday, as Democrats were flopping around madly over the upcoming vote on health care, Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted brightly that it was the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, ?where we remember and pray to St. Joseph to benefit the workers of America. And
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:28:00 GMT

March Madness, diploma sadness

We often sell our young people short when we judge their academic potential. They respond to our low expectations with low achievement, especially in the entertainment industry known as college sports. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has a dream. He
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:43:00 GMT

Democrats miss an obvious lesson plan for deprived children

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil rights era. Speaking this month in Alabama at Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:06:00 GMT

Education lessons are lost on Obama

‘No Child’ and the failure of federal intervention. Steve Chapman Steve Chapman commentary: I can't pinpoint the moment the Obama administration went wrong on the subject of education. But I can pinpoint the moment when it demonstrated it can't be
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:41:00 GMT

Channeling 1994

The widespread assumption is that the worst-case scenario, the outcome that would be most damaging to President Obama and the Democratic Party, would be to lose control of the House or Senate, or both. But there is another view -- one that holds it would
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:55:00 GMT

Health Care Reform And History

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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:37:00 GMT

I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means

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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:42:00 GMT

Andy Borowitz: Fine Print in Health Care Bill Would Tax Friends with Benefits

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - Passage of the historic health care reform bill hit an eleventh-hour snag today as a close reading of the bill revealed that it would tax friends with benefits. The under-the-radar provision is seen as a stumbling block
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:48:00 GMT

Heartland Blues

Brittany Barden and her dad cheer then Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. (What's the Matter with Kansas/Dana Kupper) Midway through George W. Bush's tenure, Thomas Frank diagnosed the cause of low-income voters' self-defeating conservatism with his
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:16:00 GMT

Pressuring Anti-Abortion Democrats

The politics of an abortion deal are tricky. Here's how it would work. Pro-life Democrats would vote for health care reform, and then they'd take a subsequent vote sometime later this year to codify the Henry Hyde language ensuring that federal money
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:07:00 GMT

The Day's Biggest News Is Stupak

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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:45:00 GMT

What to Do When Groupthink Leads to Gridlock

Re ?? (column, March 16): David Brooks criticizes both Democrats and Republicans for acting with a group mentality. But, in fact, it is the Republican Party that has been in lockstep in opposition to everything the current administration has proposed.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:03:00 GMT

The Broken Society

The United States is becoming a broken society. The public has contempt for the political class. Public debt is piling up at an astonishing and unrelenting pace. Middle-class wages have lagged. Unemployment will remain high. It will take years to fully
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:03:00 GMT

Bush officials reluctant to talk to British panel investigating Iraq war

Senior Bush administration officials involved in the Iraq war have been asked by a British panel investigating that country's role in the conflict to chat about administration activities and policies from before the March 2003 invasion until 2009. The
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:38:00 GMT

Housing Bust

You do not need insider information to know that Hillary Clinton threw a hissy fit at Bibi Netanyahu last Friday morning. And you don’t need that kind of information to know that she was sent out to do this little job by her boss. Just as Joe Biden
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:55:00 GMT

Greek Tragedy

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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:02:00 GMT

Why the House's Swing Dems Must Vote Yes

5:57 pm - Fred Barnes Again Sees Glorious People's Victory At HandMarch 18, 2010 4:26 pm - March 18, 2010 2:15 pm - March 18, 2010 1:17 pm - Reform's Finished Draft (Updated)March 18, 2010 10:11 am - Obama's Rage and the Palestinians' 'Days of
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:48:00 GMT

Fred Barnes Again Sees Glorious People's Victory At Hand

Fred Barnes, January 20: The health care bill, ObamaCare, is dead with not the slightest prospect of resurrection. Fred Barnes, today: ObamaCare is unpopular and partisan. It's extremely controversial. Its passage is far more likely to spark a political
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:27:00 GMT

After Health Care, Immigration

(Flickr/Celinkins) Most of the final negotiations over health care have turned on the abortion language, but last week members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus joined the fray, threatening to vote "no" on the Senate version because it prohibits und
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:18:00 GMT

Juan Cole's Mania

view biocontact me Related Articles More From this Author One of the odd things about people with very left-wing views the Middle East is that they're obsessed with the political influence of American Jews foreign yet almost completely unfamiliar with
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:55:00 GMT

Bushies In Never-Never Land

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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:06:00 GMT

Andy Borowitz: FBI Thinking about Monitoring People With First Name "Jihad"

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - With the woman known as "Jihad Jane" making a court appearance today and a woman named "Jihad Jamie" surfacing in Colorado, the FBI is facing increasing pressure to start monitoring people whose first name is "Jihad."
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:59:00 GMT

Sex Scandals to Learn By

Let?s consider the story of Representative Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from upstate New York who made headlines recently when he resigned from office amid talk about sexual harassment of male staffers. Massa?s defense was that the questionable
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:24:00 GMT

Fallen

WASHINGTON -- One of the tragedies of the viciously politicized battle over health care reform is the defection of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops from a cause they have championed for decades. Indifferent to political fashions, the bishops were
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:04:00 GMT