Not quite yet. But Charlie Rangel’s primary victory last Tuesday is now looking very tenuous.
Sahil Kapur has the list of Republican governors who are already declaring they’ll refuse the Medicaid expansion offered under Obamacare.
It might make for good politics for those governors at the moment, but Jonathan Cohn has a good reminder that poor and disabled people are not the only beneficiaries of Medicaid; it’s a big boost to hospitals, too: Read More
Is the Health Care mandate the ‘biggest tax increase in history’? Just look at this chart. Just look. That is all.
Newt travels to France to speak at a rally on behalf of the MEK, a cult-like group the State Department calls a terrorist organization.
It’s a sign of the changing times that Anderson Cooper may get more grief for not coming out of the closet sooner than for being gay.
In today’s episode of The Set-Up I look at the deeply unconvincing claim that Barack Obama could have gotten single payer health care reform in 2009 if only he’d put his mind to it.
You may have noticed that a strange telepathy pandemic has swept DC since the Supreme Court upheld the ACA. Its most potent vector is this CBS report that John Roberts changed his mind weeks into the deliberations and decided to join the liberal wing of the Court. Now everyone pretends to know why Roberts did what he did.
At the very least, we now know pretty conclusively that a couple people in the Court (clerks? Justices?) believe Roberts flipped, and are pretty upset about it. But let’s stick for now with the interpretation everyone else deems conclusive and say that Roberts had a change of heart. Read More
A month ago, conventional wisdom had it that the Bain attacks on Mitt Romney were somehow failing terribly — notwithstanding the fact that they’ve been key parts of every other campaign Democrats and Republicans have run against Romney going all the way back to 1994. And yet all of a sudden, the Obama campaign is going full outsource/Bain attack on Romney at every opportunity. So they think it’s working great. New polling suggests they may be on to something. And in the most telling development, in the days leading up to the surprise Supreme Court ruling, the Romney campaign itself is mounting a mammoth pushback, signaling more clearly than anything that they think it’s working too.
So what happened? Read More
Post columnist Marc Thiessen goes into full Lord of the Flies mode on John Roberts, embraces new legal doctrine of stare defucit.