President Obama in July of 2009: The conference then is going to be the place where these differences get ironed out and that’s where, you know, my bottom line will remain: does this cover all Americans, does it drive down costs both in the public sector and the private sector over the long term so […]
Joe Sudbay points to a post by political psychologist/neurologist Drew Westen on Huffington Post where he gives a very brutal, yet honest, assessment of President Obama: Somehow the president has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters he himself energized like no one else could in 2008 into the likely stay-at-home voters […]
There has been some disturbing developments on the healthcare battle. First we are seeing the normal GOP ploy when it comes to “bipartisanship” in that their definition of the word means they get everything they want and the Democrats pass it. Case in point – Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo): “I also need commitments from Senator […]
Today’s Washington Times has an article talking about a battle going on between the Ohio GOP and John McCain: In Ohio, long-boiling friction between the McCain campaign and the state Republican Party on a variety of issues reached a new intensity over a complicated local gambling question. The state Republican Party’s central committee had voted […]