Blanche Lincoln David McDonald has been in pain for two weeks because didn’t have the money to get it treated.

Eve Gittelson is in Little Rock covering the Olbermann free clinics today.

The Blue Dogs have been bellyaching about having to take a “tough vote” on immigration reform in advance of the 2010 election. Looks like they have a friend in the White House.

8:05 – The motion passes 60-39 on a party line vote. 7:54 – We are having a vote from their desks. 7:44 – Harry Reid is closing out the debate. The vote should take place in about 10 min. Reid said they are voting at this hour at the request of Blanche Lincoln who wanted [...]

Senate convening CSPAN 2.

Tomorrow at 8pm is the big vote to proceed to debate in the Senate. Landrieu is not saying how she will vote. Ben Nelson is a yes on allowing debate. The ConservaDems love their leverage. Former President Clinton is skipping the Arkansas free clinics because he says Olbermann politicized it. Is Reid laying the groundwork to [...]

Unlike the House bill, the Senate bill creates not one but two exchanges. In each state there will be an exchange for individuals and a “Small Business Health Options Program” (SHOP) exchange. What is important is that these are not just two different portals or websites where people can buy health insurance–the two different exchanges [...]

While the House health care reform bill is the one favored by progressives, it also happens to be more small “c” conservative than that Senate bill. This is not about the public option, the size of government subsidies, or regulation. The House bill is more small “c” conservative because it would do a better job [...]

Grayson: Listen. Capitalism requires rewarding success and punishing failure. That’s what Joseph Schumpeter said almost a century ago. So far, we’ve seen plenty of reward for success on Wall Street, but no punishment for failure, not when the Fed is handing out blank checks.

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It appears the crack team of reporters at the Washington Post don’t know how to read. They make the ridiculous claim that the public option would not be able to keep down costs: The decision to permit states to opt out of the public plan is partly to blame for the Reid proposal’s lack of [...]