People often say “politics is a contact sport”. That’s true as far as it goes. Politics is zero sum game: someone wins and someone else loses. But the uglier part of politics is the morally repaginate things one has to do in order to do the right thing. Take for example Social Security:
No self-respecting liberal [...]
I really enjoyed the film (500) Days of Summer. It’s probably the best romantic comedy I’ve seen in awhile. But watching the story line play out in health reform is quite disheartening.
On the one hand we have our wide eyed, hopless romantic Sen. Max Baucus. His heart is in the right place. He wants to do [...]
In order to get back in the saddle with this blogging thing, I kindly asked some of my friends to throw me questions about health reform and politics more generally. Thanks to everyone that sent in a question. You had my love and appreciation before, now I have no choice but to double down on that love. [...]
Can’t wait to do this all over again on Cap and Trade! Going to be some fun Town Halls. Who knew that a mandatory cap on carbon emissions was actually an attempt to limit the amount BBQ your grandpa could serve on the 4th of July?
Writing in today’s Washington Post Steve Pearlstein tells the dirty fucking hippes to kick rocks and roll over on the Public Option:
Enough already with the public option!
It is not the be-all and end-all of health-care reform. It is not the long-awaited safety net for the uninsured. And if, as many liberals hope, it turns out [...]
If it’s August things must be going badly for Barack Obama. Remember when Obama couldn’t get traction to Team Hillary? Remember when “The Speech” in Berlin was going to doom the Obama campaign?
Seems that Obama just can’t get the month of August. Which should be a reminder of much the month of August sucks.
