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 [...]
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. [...]
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.
