NYDN Reporter explains how his offhand remark, laundered through the hands of GOP operatives and hack reporters, got Chuck Hagel in trouble for his ties to “Friends of Hamas.”
Conventional wisdom states that there are still big potential obstacles in the path of successfully implementing ‘Obamacare’, key parts of which go into effect at the end of 2013. And there’s no question that the implementation process is a mammoth one. But Theda Skocpol says most of those threats are being hyped way out of proportion …
I very much appreciate your continuing coverage of the ObamaCare implementation issues, especially the decisions various Republican governors and legislatures are taking for now. But on this latest about four reasons why ObamaCare might “fail” let me demur — as an expert, along with Lawrence Jacobs, who not only has studied and written a widely used book about health reform’s enactment and early implementation but is also continuing to research the various paths in the fifty states.
The Supreme Court takes up Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act next week and it doesn’t look good for those defending the law. Really not good.
Is it a taste of things to come. McCain jeered over immigration reform at Arizona town hall.