The Democratic Party has become an utter train wreck since Tuesday night. Now we have this from Diane Feinstein: Feinstein said it is clear that attempts to pass sweeping legislation to address climate change by capping carbon emissions cannot pass this Congress. So if Democrats are just going to cave in on any important legislation […]
Ezra Klein, one of the most vocal bill-backers, has a really good plan – scrap the bill. But that doesn’t mean healthcare reform is dead. Instead he offers up items that could easily go through reconciliation: Democrats could scrap the legislation and start over in the reconciliation process. But not to re-create the whole bill. […]
Last night Barney Frank released the following statement: I have two reactions to the election in Massachusetts. One, I am disappointed. Two, I feel strongly that the Democratic majority in congress must respect the process and make no effort to bypass the electoral results. If Martha Coakley had won, I believe we could have worked […]
It really isn’t a lesson, but more of a reminder. Democrats suck at politics. To the Democrats out there acting shocked over the Brown win, all I can say is “wake up!” We don’t need to turn back the pages of history more than a few months to remind us how bad Democrats are at […]
From TPM: “As I look back it was a waste of time dealing with [Snowe],” Reid is quoted as saying about the White House in a forthcoming New York Times Magazine piece, “because she had no intention of ever working anything out.” I really wonder if Harry Reid actually knows how politics work. Arlen Specter […]
The big news yesterday was this “private” remark from Harry Reid, which appears on page 37 of Game Change encouragement of Obama was unequivocal. He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a “light-skinned” African American “with […]
Given the very narrow margins that the House passed their version of the health care bill, it appears that one of the key Senate changes could end up meaning doom for the legislation: One thing is clear: Unless Sen. Harry Reid and President Barack Obama back down on the excise tax in the health reform […]
When I say President Obama is becoming more like Bush I am generally referring to things like these flip-flops we are seeing all to often. The latest one involves the “cadillac plan” tax on health care: President Barack Obama signaled to House Democratic leaders Wednesday that they’ll have to drop their opposition to taxing high-end […]
A couple of things really caught my eye yesterday. It seems like so many are quick to jump on President Obama about things he has no control over. First off we have a video that Andrew Breitbart put together of numerous times that President Obama said that the negotiations healthcare should be opened. This has […]
This will be big fuel for the GOP: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) corrected its estimate of the Senate health bill’s costs on Sunday, saying it would reduce deficits slightly less than they’d predicted. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf said that the nonpartisan budget office had […]