Carrie Budoff Brown
Liberals Worry, “What If We Win?”
Obama Talks Jobs, Tax Cut -- Is This the 'Pivot'?
Waiting for the national political conversation to "pivot" away from deficits and towards jobs? It looks like President Obama wants to help. Obama is in North Carolina today. During an afternoon discussion about the ongoing bipartisan talks to raise the debt ceiling, he made clear he wanted the final agreement to include short-term measures designed to strengthen the fragile economic recovery. READ MORE >>
Republican Apostasy Update
Yesterday, I discussed an interesting Washington Post story, about Republican Senators apparently challenging their party's "no new revenues ever" dogma. Ramesh Ponnuru notes that the three GOP senators recently sent Grover Norquist a letter promising that "any increase in revenue generation will be the result of the pro-growth eff READ MORE >>
A Kinder, Gentler Push for Repeal?
Finishing 'The Treatment'
Will the Senate Come Through?
When Senators like Bernie Sanders or Sherrod Brown say Democrats need to finalize health care reform through the budget reconciliation process because of Republican obstructionism, that doesn't mean much. When Senators Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu, and Ben Nelson say their more liberal colleagues may be right, that means a lot. Via Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown, here's Bayh: READ MORE >>
Will the House Come Through?
Who says bipartisan good feeling is dead? The big question hanging over health care reform right now is whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can get enough Democrats to vote for the Senate bill and an accompanying set of amendments that would move through the budget reconciliation process. Rather than make Pelosi and her lieutenants go to the trouble of counting all those votes, Republican House Whip Eric Cantor has generously done the work for her. READ MORE >>
BREAKING: Tauzin Out at PhRMA
Billy Tauzin announced on Thursday that he is stepping down as leader of PhRMA, the drug industry trade group. And if you're a fan of health care reform, like I am, you're probably not sure whether that's good news or bad news. Believe it or not, it may be neither--at least based on some very preliminary reporting Thursday evening. READ MORE >>
Is W.H. Pushing a Lieberman Deal?
Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown is reporting that the White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to cut a deal with Joe Lieberman. READ MORE >>
Daily Treatment, Giving Thanks Edition
Readers may have noticed that the "Daily Treatment" isn't really daily. Instead, it's daily when I have time to write it, which isn't as often as I would like. And that's unfortunate. It means I don't get to chance to highlight many worthy articles--or, more important, to thank, implicitly, the writers and thinkers whose work influences me. So today I'm bringing the Daily Treatment back, but offering an extended holiday version--one in which I can give thanks to... READ MORE >>
