In an interview Sunday, New York Times economist Paul Krugman hammered conservative talk show host Glenn Beck for spreading blatantly false information about the Democrats’ health care bill — and put the blame squarely on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.”…
The White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told CNN on January 31, 2010 that the focus is shifting from health care reform to health insurance reform. The future of health care reform is up in the air as a result of the failure so far to pass a hea…
President Obama’s greatest need is to escape the ideological grip of congressional Democrats and the liberal base of the Democratic party (they’re one and the same). But he either doesn’t recognize this or, as a conventional liberal himself, i…
Frank Rich in the NYT: must be less foggy on the specifics of what that agenda is. Though on Wednesday night he asked Congress to “take another look” at the health care bill, even now it’s unclear what he believes that bill’s bedrock provisi…
Projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the winners announced Thursday by the White House — the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhow…
This good news: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the House and Senate are pushing ahead on health care reform. “I had a conversation with the speaker today, and we are moving forward,” Reid said as reporters were ushered out of the leader’s…
Not a bad start but will the administration actually make an effort to fight for this or will we see the familiar big talk and then fold? The Republicans will no doubt spin this as a cost that’s too high for an economy in trouble. Business can’t a…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic congressional leaders said on Thursday they would keep pushing for a stalled healthcare overhaul and would explore all options to pass it, but acknowledged the process would not move quickly.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic congressional leaders said on Thursday they would keep pushing for a stalled healthcare overhaul and would explore all options to pass it, but acknowledged the process would not move quickly.
President Obama’s message is that Democrats should not be so certain that they will lose control of Congress.