Posts in March 2010

Another day in the health care reform debate brings with it another battle over parliamentary procedure, and another example of the media struggling to get some basic facts right. Today, the battle is joined over deeming resolutions, the process by which House Democrats may finally... [+]

Tea Party activists “will storm Capitol Hill this morning, spending the day rallying and protesting against President Obama’s health-care bill and demanding meetings with targeted members.” But on the eve of their final coordinated push to kill health care reform, one of the Tea Party... [+]

A leading Democratic consultant who serves in an official capacity with the Democratic National Committee has come out in favor of primary challenges to Democratic lawmakers who help kill the president’s health care bill. Donna Brazile, who is the Vice Chair of Voter Registration and... [+]

Traveling to the Cleveland area to make yet another major speech for passing health care reform into law, President Barack Obama chose as a travel companion one very skeptical lawmaker. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is from the area where Obama is speaking. That would normally... [+]

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd’s decision to break off negotiations with Republicans and go it alone on financial regulatory reform legislation came as a shock to some reformers. “To be honest, a lot of us were surprised,” said one consumer advocate closely involved in... [+]

The Associated Press raised a lot of eyebrows today with this piece, implying that negotiations over the abortion provision in the Senate health care bill had fallen apart. “House leaders have concluded they cannot change a divisive abortion provision in President Barack Obama’s health care... [+]