I scour the Web so you don't have to: news, analysis & commentary from a progressive perspective.
PREVIOUS POST
"The Senate bill remains a careful contradiction ... comprehensive reform with an incremental soul ... routinely lambasted for being too big and comprehensive, but compared to the problems it faces, it is too small and too incrementalist" Ezra Klein: According to Rep. Henry Waxman, Barack Obama will sign the Senate bill within the next two days. At that point, the decades-long struggle to pass a universal health-care system into law will finish, and the decades-long work of building and improving our system will begin. The politics of health-care reform have gotten enough attention in recent weeks, and I don't mean to give them much more. Minority leader John Boehner's closing scold was an angry, divisive capstone; his shouts of "hell no" on the floor of Congress were far more inappropriate, and far more embarrassing, than any yelp that ever escaped Howard Dean's mouth. The presiding officer's admonishment "to remember the dignity of the House" was a sad commentary on how much of it had already been lost. But he represented his members fairly: Earlier in the evening, Rep. Devin Nunes exhorted his colleagues to say "no to...
Recent Comments