Posts in January 2010

The longest serving member of the House of Representatives says Democrats need to act quickly to pass reform, and that the best way forward may be “Plan B”: to pass the Senate health care bill along with a separate bill amending it in a variety... [+]

One Senate upset, and the president seems ready to deal away health care. Leslie H. Gelb on how he needs to stop prattling on about institutions, grab the reins, and lead. If you want to grasp instantly why President Obama faces the abyss, look no... [+]

Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is engaged with House progressives, trying to tease out a solution to the health care reform impasse–but he says that at the highest levels of the Senate and the White House, there’s still no plan, and he doubts whether President Obama will... [+]

Editor’s Note: I do not hold a lot of stock in Politico usually but the plain truth is no matter if HCR is really dead it sure appears that way. Robert Gibbs has said the President has a full plate and HCR is on the... [+]

The White House will move health care reform to the back burner, in order to “let the dust settle” after Democrats lost their Senate super-majority. Asked today if health care was on the back burner, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, “The president believes it is... [+]

Those Democrats who hope to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited corporate and union money to flood into federal campaigns have an ally in Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican. “That’s regrettable, obviously, from where I stand and the positions I’ve... [+]

Yet again our Dem leaders have no idea what they are doing or where they are going! From Huff Post: Don’t bet on the House rubber-stamping the weaker Senate health care reform bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday. “I don’t think it’s possible to... [+]