Category Archives: 2012

Will Dems Really Own Health Care?

Via Escha­ton: I hope Dems in Con­gress take a moment or two to think about the pol­i­tics of health care reform. Once it passes they will own all of it, not just the reforms. Repub­li­cans will turn every health insur­ance hor­ror story in a story about how the Dems’ HCR is a tremen­dous awful hor­ri­ble …

10 December 2009 – 1:23 pm | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in 2010, 2012, Health Care, Politics | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (57)

Could Obama Be Another Clinton?

From Paul Krug­man: Despite all this, the midterms prob­a­bly won’t give Repub­li­cans the major­ity in the House. But the losses will be big enough to deny Obama a work­ing major­ity for any major ini­tia­tives in the rest of his first term. (My guess is that he’ll be reelected thanks to the true awful­ness of the …

1 December 2009 – 1:02 am | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in 2010, 2012, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (727)

Lieberman Abandons Reason, Democrats

Sen. Joe Lieber­man, I-​​​​Conn., isn’t wor­ried about Democ­rats get­ting angry if he votes with Repub­li­cans to fil­i­buster health­care reform leg­is­la­tion. But the rea­son for his lack of con­cern that he gave Politico this week may make some lib­er­als even mad­der: After what I went through in 2006, there’s noth­ing much more that any­body [who] dis­agrees …

20 November 2009 – 8:13 am | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in 2012, Conservative Coalition, Politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (180)