Once upon a time, the Democrats promised the American people they would reform Health Care. The price of medical assistance has risen well beyond what is reasonable and affordable. Millions are not covered by insurance. Some by choice, and some by their financial circumstances.
But something happened.
It stopped being about the [...]
Maureen Dowd uses her insults of Sarah Palin to diagnose President Obama's troubles. Including this killer sentence.
For a while now, I've been watching the Obama administration with hope, but also with a growing sense of unease. That unease has centered primarily on the Administration's and Congress' failure (so far) to accomplish many of the things Democrats campaigned on, which many of us worked our butts [...] 
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On a party-line vote:
WASHINGTON – Invoking the name of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
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Senator Blanche Lincoln announced this afternoon that she will vote to open debate on the Senate health care package:
Sen. Blanche Lincoln is a yes for debating health reform, but a no for the public option, and she and fellow centrists are making clear they expect Senate Majority Leader Harry [...]
Oh wait, this is Washington, they don’t call it bribery, they call it “leverage”:
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Friday night that she’s “leaning towards” voting to start debate on the health care bill – which would leave Democrats just a single vote shy of clearing a critical test for [...]
It's a little known fact that there were two groups of Americans traveling aboard the RMS Titanic that were returning from two separate group tours in Europe. One group was composed entirely of Republicans, the other was made up of Democrats.The national debt belongs to both parties. But at least the Democrats don’t go on Fox News day after day proclaiming how fiscally conservative they are, and organize tea parties to rant about deficits, without ever putting forward any plan for reducing them. Nor do they pretend that they have [...]
It would seem that the honeymoon is ending:
Washington (CNN) - Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the [...]
