Rahm’s Authorization to Use Military Force

By: emptywheel Saturday January 30, 2010 6:24 am

Is Rahm planning on using Rove’s tactics to get a crappy health insurance reform passed using the urgency of the upcoming election?

“MD’s Sob Story”

By: emptywheel Saturday January 23, 2010 9:00 am

I’m not Raul Grijalva or Jerry Nadler, but I thought I’d try to respond to TPM reader MD’s “sob story” (as MD called it) because the story illustrates the issues at stake in health care reform. Here’s the story. Like everyone I have a sob-story to tell about health care. After telling it to countless [...]

Will Obama Even Meet with the Progressives?

By: emptywheel Thursday September 3, 2009 3:01 pm

In addition to warning Obama that the Progressive Caucus won’t vote for a bill that doesn’t have the public option, they asked for a meeting. Will they get it?

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