The right’s Virginia delusion: Somehow, a Democratic win is bad for Obamacare!
It was fun waking up this morning and witnessing the various ways Republicans across the spectrum are contorting themselves to argue that Obamacare was the one thing preventing Terry McAuliffe --...
View ArticleA petty rant: Republicans are the real lying liars on Obamacare
I fully accept that it's a fallacy of relevance to respond to charges of wrongdoing by noting that others have done worse.But I'm also feeling unusually petty at the moment, so let's proceed in that...
View ArticleGOP’s intolerance trap: How ENDA fight explains all of U.S. politics
Back in September of 1996, when the ideological sorting of the country's two major political parties wasn't as complete as it is today, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill which would have...
View ArticleWorrying signs for Obamacare: Plan B needed for Healthcare.gov
From a political communications perspective, the purpose of President Obama's interview with NBC's Chuck Todd last week was to apologize to anybody who had been misled by his promise that everyone...
View ArticleGOP about to hurt itself again!: New ploy to kill Obamacare will blow up
Starting on Jan. 1, votes to repeal Obamacare will become votes to take health insurance away from a lot of people. Just how many people will depend on when the votes take place (assuming they take...
View ArticleThe right deludes itself again: It cannot do healthcare policy
I missed this when it posted nearly two weeks ago, so apologies for the delayed response.It's a lengthy post by Reihan Salam defending conservative and Republican healthcare ideas from my...
View ArticleGOP’s unparalleled radicalism: Time for Democrats to go nuclear on judges!
When last we checked in, Senate Republicans were vowing to effectively nullify three vacant seats on the ultra-powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by denying confirmation to all of President Obama's...
View ArticleGOP’s big Obamacare trap: Not as brilliant as they think!
Democrats on Capitol Hill are badly in need of a lodestar.Their hysteria over the state of the Affordable Care Act plays to stereotype, but it's actually somewhat justified in this case. Many...
View ArticleThe president strikes back: Insurance companies get their justified comeuppance
If your health insurance carrier has canceled your plan in anticipation of the launch of the Affordable Care Act, the administrative fix President Obama announced Thursday doesn't guarantee you can get...
View ArticleThe right’s clueless gloating: Democratic civil war is only in their dreams
The proximate political goal of President Obama's "you can keep your plan fix" was to calm restive congressional Democrats before they did anything rash ...Continue Reading...
View ArticleHow to silence GOP nuts — and stop the Obamacare repeal campaign
Nobody, not even President Obama, is pretending that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act has been anything but a debacle.Reading headlines in the national press, though, you'd get the impression...
View ArticleA final countdown for haters: Obamacare’s huge, looming deadline
The approach the Obama administration has taken to fixing Healthcare.gov is incremental. They identified hundreds of "punch list" items (read: screwed up things) and set about fixing them in a logical...
View ArticleThe right’s in a box: Here’s how GOP loses Obamacare fight
The fact that Affordable Care Act enrollments are spiking in states that have functioning exchange websites of their own is great news for the law and for the many thousands of people who will be...
View ArticleGOP’s existential test: Why they’re really escalating a nuclear option crisis
Here are a couple questions with fairly obvious answers. (Spoiler alert, the answers are, "no," and "no.")1). If Mitt Romney were president, would Senate Republicans deny confirmation to his D.C....
View ArticleThe anti-Ted Cruz scare campaign has its limits
Let me start by being as clear as possible about the fact that the Affordable Care Act will be a lasting political liability for Democrats, an unforced blemish on social liberalism, and a tragedy for...
View ArticleReid goes nuclear — now bring on the liberal activist judges!
Starting this afternoon, presidential nominees, save for designated Supreme Court justices, can no longer be filibustered.Republicans left Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid no choice, so on Thursday he...
View ArticleWhoops! Obamacare turns out to be great deal personally for Boehner
Poor John Boehner.Thanks to a Republican amendment to the Affordable Care Act, most members of Congress will see their government-provided health insurance lapse at the end of the year, leaving many of...
View ArticleRight-wing extremists face new moral conundrum
The confluence of two pieces of news last week will place Republicans at a moral crossroads -- either by this weekend, or whenever Healthcare.gov can legitimately be described as a "working"...
View ArticleJohn Boehner: Obamacare’s new best friend
Word is out now that despite a plethora of good options for a 64-year-old smoker living in Washington, D.C., House Speaker John Boehner will pay higher premiums next year than he did for his Federal...
View ArticleMark Halperin’s epic fail: Actually, nuclear option will save Medicare
When Harry Reid invoked the "nuclear option" last week to permanently prohibit filibustering judicial and executive branch nominees (SCOTUS excepted) he invited a brief surge of ritualistic navel...
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