A new ABC/Washington Post poll finds support for the overall health care reform effort working its way through Congress remains nearly evenly divided in this country. Over the past few months, public opinion has solidified, leaving Obama and the Democrats with the political challenge of enacting one of the most ambitious pieces of domestic legislation [...]

Recently there has been a lot of focus on a possible “blue/green alliance” among the political left in this country. The idea is that union workers would build the new equipment for the green economy. Things like solar panels and wind turbines. Clearly the idea appeals to those who long for the glory days of [...]

Reid is meeting with Senate progressives tonight to talk health care. Harkin thinks the Senate will start debate in earnest on November 30th. And, he is willing to make the Republicans work if they try to filibuster reform.   Mike Castle’s poll numbers take a huge hit, possibly because of his opposition to health care. Carper, [...]

Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE) is well know for his repeated attempts to kill the public option. For months he has been promoting several different terrible “alternatives” he invented. Now Carper thinks Democrats should embrace Olympia Snowe’s worthless trigger proposal. When it comes to the controversial public insurance option, Snowe is a proponent of a “trigger,” [...]

Harry Reid is still waiting for a final CBO score on the merged Senate health care bill. The hope that, some time this week, he will get a score he is happy with and will be able to introduce the bill during the middle of the week. After the bill is introduced, Reid plans to [...]

So sad. :( Nigel Coleman, chairman of the Danville Tea Party, says the local property owner hosting the rally asked him to pull the plug. “We will not be going forward with the plan,” a crestfallen Coleman told me by phone moments ago. “We had to cancel it. The property owner won’t allow us to [...]

This takes some serious stones: Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. [] This year’s increases mean the average annual cost for [...]

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-25) will oppose a final health care bill that has triggers or that allows states to opt out of the public option – with an asterisk. She would allow states to opt-out only if they did provided “a more progressive option” offered at the state level.

The New York Times is reporting that the drug companies have dramatically jacked up the prices of their medications this year to lock in profits before reform starts. In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent, according to industry analysts. That will add more [...]

Please post to your Facebook wall and RT on Twitter — this needs to go viral Is this great or what? Thank you Rabbi Fish! “The moral imperative for our time is clear. Anyone whose guide in public policy is conscience, anyone who argues that faith and religious traditions should direct our actions, such a [...]