RomneyCare is working! Poor Mitt.
A new report, sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachuestts Foundation, shows that the pilot project for ObamaCare continues to prove workable, affordable, and effective. How will this...
View ArticleHypocrisy Abuse II
I suppose one might justify liberal attacks on Senator Brown’s use of the Affordable Care Act personally, despite having voted against it, as a just dessert. Unfortunately, it really just serves to...
View ArticleHealth Care Flip-Flops (post decision addendum)
How did the individual mandate, a Republican Party idea, come to gain near universal opposition by Republicans as unconstitutional? That is the question asked by Ezra Klein in Unpopular Mandate in the...
View ArticleLynch and the Anti-Obamacare Massachusetts Democrats
Congressman Stephen Lynch finds himself in some unusual company in having opposed Obamacare. Let’s not forget that Democratic Party 2010 senate nominee Attorney General Martha Coakley and her main...
View ArticleThe country without election results
America’s system of separation of powers with constitutionally coequal branches of government frequently frustrates those who claim electoral mandates. Still, elections are supposed to have...
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The President should continue to say no
The President should continue to say no to any continuing resolution that seeks to change the Affordable Care Act. He should also continue to refuse to accept anything other than a clean debt ceiling...
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The President is being asked to cave, not compromise
As the shutdown moves into its second week, I remain convinced that President Barack Obama should stand firm against the radical elements of the House and Senate for two reasons: to protect the...
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The President’s Neustadtian Nightmare
The President is caught in a Neustadtian reality. Or perhaps a Neustadtian nightmare. His power of persuasion, what Richard Neustadt found to be the only real power of the successful modern executive,...
View ArticleCan’t Anyone Here Play this Game?
Back on November 17 my colleague Professor Ubertaccio wrote in The President’s Neustadtian Nightmare that President Obama’s “legacy on the issue of health care reform will not be made, or saved, by a...
View ArticleIs Brown’s email part of his 2014 campaign “roll out?”
I checked my email this morning and low and behold a message from Senator Scott Brown was in my inbox. Sadly, it wasn’t a personal email soliciting my sage advice. It was, rather, a conspicuously...
View ArticleThe CBO, the ACA, the GOP, & the MSM
Headlines across the political media world today told of an Obamacare “Bombshell,” a “Game Changer,” a report from Washington’s only credible source that seems to support a key Republican criticism of...
View ArticleDr. Krauthammer’s Bad Medicine
What’s a right wing pundit to do when everything he claim about the Affordable Care Act crumbles with scrutiny? Charles Krauthammer shows the way in his latest column, “The Healthcare Myths We Live...
View ArticleHow the Parties Still Deliver
Commentators on the right and left kicked up a fuss last week over the Congressional Budget Office Report The Budget and Economic Outlook Report: 2014-2024, especially “Appendix C: Labor Market Effects...
View ArticleLow Income Workers and Obamacare
Without every intending to do so I’ve gotten dragged in over my head, to discussing the Affordable Care Act and the Congressional Budget Office report that caused so much controversy. When I posted How...
View ArticleCould an early Brown implosion spare Baker?
The recent wave of good news about Obamacare has complicated Republican plans to ride opposition to the President’s singular legislative accomplishment back into the majority in the US Senate. Nowhere...
View ArticleMIT Prof’s Comments Spark Feigned Outrage from Right-Wingers
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The President should continue to say no
The President should continue to say no to any continuing resolution that seeks to change the Affordable Care Act. He should also continue to refuse to accept anything other than a clean debt ceiling...
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The President is being asked to cave, not compromise
As the shutdown moves into its second week, I remain convinced that President Barack Obama should stand firm against the radical elements of the House and Senate for two reasons: to protect the...
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