Better Messaging Is The Key To Winning Health Care
In order to pass a robust health care bill, Democrats need to re-frame the debate with a strong, disciplined messaging campaign. They have the power, ...
In order to pass a robust health care bill, Democrats need to re-frame the debate with a strong, disciplined messaging campaign. They have the power, ...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
On Thursday, Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report came out with a new post predicting trouble for Democrats in the 2010 elections. Based on the ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Obama eventually will get a health care bill to sign. But it will be a bill that will satisfy few.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
This is philosophical warfare, and for the Republicans, Medicare is an appropriate casualty.
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
A major factor in President Obama's slide in today's big Washington Post/ABC News poll, which is preoccupying the political classes today, is his surp...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.20.2009 | Comedy
On page 311 of the health care reform bill: Forced "sterilization" of all surgical tools. One more step toward forced sterilization of everyone.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
A question for the Democrats: How long can you keep getting outplayed by the Republicans, not deliver on your promises and continue to ask for our votes?
D. Brad Wright | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics
I'm not suggesting starting small in hopes of expanding the reform through subsequent legislation. No, I'm suggesting dividing the current health reform bill into several smaller pieces.
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics
What we've been witnessing during this health care reform process can easily be defined as "bipartisanship porn." It's a display of bipartisanship so obscene and excessive that it borders on perverse.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics
Obama the Developer wants to build a health club. Something classy, that's what he's thinking, with all the latest equipment, and enough room so everyone in town can join.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.19.2009 | Media
These ratings suggest that popular support for the health care bill is waning.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics
The Democrats have the power and the numbers, and yet they behave as if the other side would show them the same courtesy were the roles reversed -- as if the last eight years never happened.
Peter Schwartz | Posted 08.19.2009 | Home
Nixonland reads like nothing more than an undergraduate thesis. It is sprawling, poorly written, and ham-handed analytically.
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics
From a branding perspective, is this really how the Republican Party wants to be defined? Hate speech -- true hate speech -- should never be tolerated in any form.
New York Times | CARL HULSE and JEFF ZELENY | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority's cooperation i...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
While the dance of legislation can be painful to watch, I still like the Democrats' chances for healthcare reform better than Tom DeLay's on Dancing with the Stars.
Robert Davey | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
Republicans are still telling lies, only now the lies and misrepresentation are about health reform. And their lies are being believed once again.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
A good place to start winning on health care is to conduct hearings (Henry Waxman, where are you when we need you?) and town hall meetings dedicated to the wrongs of the private, profit-making sector.
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
All Democratic presidents have to offer meaningful health care legislation. And all Democratic presidents are hugely vulnerable on the subject.
Dave Astor | Posted 08.18.2009 | Comedy
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, "It's the simplicity, stupid!" One reason why extremist Republicans have way more clout than their numbers deserve is tha...
Rupert Russell | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
At a time when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are flourishing in America's public life like never before, those charged with advancing their civil equality have retreated into the closet.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
A Rasmussen poll now has the Republican Party as more trusted on the health care issue than Democrats. How are they winning? Because the Democrats brought a scalpel to a gun fight.
FiveThirtyEight.com | Tom Schaller | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
The Midwest is the swing region of the country. That's true in presidential elections, for sure, especially in what I call the "Great Eight" states; i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
The Netroots Nation convention this past weekend offered the progressive political community a chance to catch its breath, reassess and regroup during...
Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics