Obama speaking Live at White House on 7.1 million signups. Watch.
Conservatives are finally getting to the point where they’re starting to admit that a straight repeal may not be a great idea. Sahil Kapur goes through some of the more prominent conservative wonks’ warnings.
Key architect of both Obamacare and Romneycare says the process of enrollment is far from over.
Daniel Strauss has a great piece on Sen. Elizabeth Warren, senior senator from Massachusetts, as a fundraising powerhouse for Democrats in trouble.
It’s not often that we get someone like Jonathan Gruber — the intellectual powerhouse behind what became the Affordable Care Act — to write for TPM, but here we are. Gruber writes with Vanderbilt School of Medicine Assistant Professor John Graves on how enrollment is far from over, and how Obamacare offers a key piece of the social safety net.
Michele Bachman has said she’s not running for re-election. Someone should tell that to the PAC that’s still raising money for her “campaign.”
Republicans rage against the dying of their favorite anti-Obamacare memes.
Sahil Kapur points out the hypocrisy of Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) revised budget, released today, that includes the very Medicare cuts the GOP has been campaigning against.
About 15 years ago I wrote a controversial article in The New Republic arguing, on very hard evidence, that it simply wasn’t true that Americans were more supportive of the death penalty than nations in Europe. Mainly the issue was that European political systems were less responsive to populist support. It’s probably a mix of structural (parliamentary) and cultural differences (less populist). But the decline of violent crime, not surprisingly, has rapidly reduced Americans’ support for the death penalty. Look at this chart.