Kevin Drum: The individual mandate may be an essential part of healthcare reform, but it’s also the part that’s easiest to hate. One pro-reform blogger suggests you think of it...
As Elrod pointed out, a post-showdown poll on healthcare shows that 49% percent of the public supported passage of the bill. One day earlier, CNN released a poll showing that...
What does victory mean for the Democrats? Yglesias: Barack Obama will go down in history as one of America’s finest presidents. Drum: Even if this is [Obama’s] high point, then,...
Three long weeks ago, I made the case that Scott Brown single-handedly broke Washington: As recently as January 18, the day before Scott Brown’s election, there was no firm consensus...
I’ve been pondering the common analogy between President Obama’s support for healthcare reform (HCR for short) and President Bush’s support for the surge in Iraq, both in the face of...
Kevin Drum, on deem and pass: If you have a life, you don’t care about the subject of this post and have never heard of it. Damn it. I heard...
