David Plouffe points to the enthusiasm of attendees at book events that happened before Obama’s capitulation to argue that Obama’s base doesn’t care about the capitulation.

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I tweeted this factoid yesterday, but wanted to post on it too, because I think it illustrates the difference bewteen health insurance and health care. A number of supporters of the current Senate bill have been pointing to RomneyCare to argue that mandates and exchanges can be wildly successful in providing care. But a September [...]

There’s a whole lot more that came out in today’s document dump while I’ve been fighting about health care. Here are the set released in response to an EFF FOIA. As a number of outlets have reported, that set includes evidence the government was inappropriately surveilling domestic groups, including the Nation of Islam. In the [...]

I did a post when Max Baucus first released the Senate Finance Committee bill, showing that for a middle class family of four, a significant medical event would leave the family with just $7,215 to pay transportation, education/child care, utilities, debt, and other necessities. I wanted to do the same exercise again, because the Senate [...]

Sorry for even suggesting that there could be a “holiday season” torture document dump. But if you need a break from health care fights, here are some torture docs. Consider this an open thread.

In a post citing liberally from a Matt Yglesias post naming me,  Ezra takes on the argument that the health care bill, as currently conceived by President Lieberman, would be a bailout of the insurance industry. There’s an argument on the left that the health-care bill represents a “bailout” to the insurance companies. Matt Yglesias [...]

In voting against the Dorgan amendment last night, Carl Levin excused flip-flopping on this important issue in the interest of supporting the corrupt deal the White House secretly made with PhRMA.

Passing Joe Lieberman’s health care bill will be a fundamental step on the road to neo-feudalism.

It’s official. Crazy Pete’s hissy fit about moving Gitmo prisoners to Standish, MI, have lost MI those potential jobs.