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House Democratic leaders say President Barack Obama, who made a quick trip to Capitol Hill, inspired their party to pass health care legislation. Complete Story...
Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections.
- The 2009 gubernatorial elections provided a much-needed momentum boost for Republicans after back-to-back election cycle drubbings.
Get on the health overhaul bandwagon, or don't count on our help in your re-election.
Suppose your team, the one you bleed for, was stuck with a quarterback. Not any quarterback. A really lousy one, who can’t impress today and doesn’t inspire confidence for tomorrow. Let’s call him JaMarcus Leinart. For lack of a better name.
Next week, the Senate Finance Committee will likely approve a bill designed to overhaul insurance, putting Congress another step closer to restructuring the nation's health care system.
Faced with a stinging rise in unemployment, President Barack Obama summoned Congress' top two Democrats Wednesday to the White House to discuss additional proposals to help the jobless and boost the economy.
Germany's Social Democrats thought their election result would be bad — but not this bad.
The senators who are debating Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus's bill this week are trying to walk a fine line: how to cut spending on Medicare Advantage, while not alienating the seniors in their own states who are happy with the plans.
The traditional kingmaker of German politics — the Free Democrats — hope to return to government this weekend after 11 years in opposition, thanks to their popular pro-business line in a time of economic crisis.
Declaring that he'll be the last president confronted with reshaping health care in America, President Barack Obama proposes a $900 billion plan to overhaul a system that he says has the country at “a breaking point.”
The fate of President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul could lie in the hands of centrist Democrats like Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly, whose constituents seem wary of doing too much, too fast.
Bracing for an August showdown over health care reform, Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama declared themselves united Tuesday on their determination to enact a historic overhaul this year — ideally with Republican cooperation but without if necessary.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Friday urged Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special counsel to examine potential abuses by former President George W. Bush's administration.
Having swapped his hip-holstered Blackberry for fishing pliers, the U.S. attorney for eastern North Carolina watches closely from the captain's chair aboard the 45-foot "Jolly Mon" as his crew prepares for a day on the water.
Both those Americans who can’t afford to buy health insurance and those who have decided to get by without it will face the same order from congressional Democrats as they prepare legislation to overhaul health care: buy health insurance. And if they can’t afford the coverage, taxpayers will help them pay for it.
Mainstream Democrats close to Barack Obama are warning Republicans about insisting on too many changes to the president's health care overhaul, saying the Democratic-controlled Congress will move ahead without GOP input if they do.
Former President Bill Clinton rallied Democrats on Saturday with a vigorous defense of President Barack Obama, saying that Obama has done what was needed to spark the economy.
The revelation that Democratic appropriations kingpins may face an ethics investigation of their campaign donations moves Republicans closer to gaining a corruption issue in 2010.
The revelation that Democratic appropriations kingpins may face a House ethics investigation of their campaign receipts from lobbyists for recipients of government grants and contracts moves Republicans closer to gaining a corruption issue in 2010.
Sen. Arlen Specter told Pennsylvania's Democratic leaders Saturday he's "pleased and proud" to be back in the party he left shortly after launching his political career more than four decades ago.
Republican Party leaders are trying to avoid a family feud over a GOP effort to rename the Democratic Party the "Socialist Democrat" party.
Democrats just can't seem to get on the same page on national security — and it could cost them dearly on an issue Republicans have dominated for decades.
Barack Obama warned Democrats in Congress against making a partisan cause out of the Bush administration's harsh interrogation tactics.
Dennis Kucinich on House Healthcare Bill: 'Bailout Under a Blue Cross'With the U.S. House having passed its version of a health care insurance bill (H.R. 3962 [PDF]) last night by a vote of 220 to 215, it may be instructive to take a very quick look at a couple of the outlier votes from each party.
True Leftists don't support H.R. 3962Once again Dennis Kucinich shows what Liberals should be saying but aren't:
Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W BushIn a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over, I began to hear this week the first stirrings of a wistfulness about Mr Bush. "I never thought I'd hear myself say it," one Democrat told me. "But Obama makes you feel that at least with Bush you knew where he was on something."
The Eisenhower-Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Bush healthcare plan passesAll of the Republican presidents listed in this commentary's title professed to be believers in free markets.
Real Oklahoma Students Ace Citizenship Exam; Strategic Vision Survey Was Likely FabricatedIn detailing some of the evidence against Strategic Vision LLC, a pollster I am now almost certain is disreputable and fraudulent, I pointed in particular to a poll that they conducted on behalf of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, an conservative-leaning educational thinkt …
Our government still rejects universal public health care, something every other modern industrial country has in place. We instead embrace something uniquely American: the claim that we have competition when the truth is as far from real competition as it can get.
Healthcare Passes; Could This be The Democrats Defining Social Policy Achievement?WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement.
Pelosi's day - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com"That was easy," the Speaker said with a smile.
Obama has lost sight of the centre by Clive CrookThe Democrats should be worried about what voters think of them right now. The lesson for Mr Obama and his party is simple: listen to the centre. They are not listening. They appear to be stone-deaf.
HR 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act" passed the House of Representatives shortly after 11pm eastern time tonight, 220 - 215.
House Passes Historic Health Care BIllAP - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.
Health Care Reform Passes House!!!!!!!!!!With One Republican vote. That makes it bipartisan
Broader Measure of Unemployment Stands at 17.5% - NYTimes.comIn all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982. This includes the officially unemployed, who have looked for work in the last four weeks.
Bishops endorse the [Health Care Reform] billThe United States Conference of Catholic Bishops delivered a critical endorsement to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday by signing off on late-night agreement to grant a vote on an amendment barring insurance companies that participate in the exchange from covering abortions.
10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care BattleWild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Astroturf In Action: Right-Wing Billionaire David Koch Pays For 40 Buses To Haul In Protesters Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the corporate front group founded in the 1980s by Koch Industries billionaire David Koch, worked closely with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to orchestrate the anti-health reform rally today.
House Dems clear hurdle on health bill - Health care reform- msnbc.comCapping months of struggle, Democrats in the House of Representatives cleared an abortion-related impasse blocking a vote on sweeping health care legislation late Friday and officials expressed optimism they had lined up the support needed to pass President Barack Obama's top dom …
Rep. Israel Condemns Tea Party Protest Holocaust SignsRep. Israel (D-NY) condemns Tea Party protest Holocaust signs, Nov. 6, 2009.
MoveOn Threatens to Push Primary Opponents to Dems Voting Against Health PlanMoveOn has reportedly raised more than $3.5 million in contributions to fund primary challenges against "any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option," according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.
OK. Short article, hopefully a lively and CIVIL discussion. I keep hearing the phrase "Barack Obama is Destroying America" or some variant of that ("He's a Nazi" "He's a Communist" etc.). Would somebody please explain it to me like I'm in grade school?
Healthcare: Who Are the Know-Nothings?As Tuesday's vote revealed, Americans are strongly devoted to individualism, one happy aspect of which is that they are possessed of an abhorrence to being told what to think, a truth that explains why people are drawing their own conclusions regarding this question: Which Amer …
The Implications of a Post 'Nuclear Option' EnvironmentWe find ourselves now less than 48 hours from a projected House Vote on the Healthcare Reform Legislation.
Trouble Ahead for DemocratsA year after Barack Obama's election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued gridlock in Washington threaten Democratic dominance of the political landscape.
OK, I've been stewing on this for a number of weeks now. I've been noticing the rhetoric on Newsvine being steadily ratchetted up over the past few months that I've been a member. It's rather disconcerting and it's coming from both sides (and me included sometimes).
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