One thing that has really bugged me is why vulnerable House Democrats are willing to walk the plank on health care reform to protect weird, stupid Senate rules they all hate anyway. Instead of passing the Senate bill as is and then hoping the Senate approves the changes they want through reconciliation, the House Democrats [...]

Dave Weigel isn’t a journalist, he’s a smear-monger that makes things up and projects his own fantasies onto his stories: I spoke to Kathryn A. Serkes of the Doctor Patient Medical Association at this morning’s rally against the health care bill, after Serkes had addressed the smallish crowd. “I’m in contact with folks on the [...]

I always thought Ralph Nader was turned into an evil caricature. He was unfairly depicted as actively trying to get George Bush elected by pulling away votes from Al Gore in Florida. While I think it is fair to question his actions, I do believe Nader ran in 2000 for reasons at least he thought [...]

Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin holds down a tough seat for pro-choice Democrats. She’s in an R+9 district, and that’s a tough thing to do for a pro-choice woman. But the Democratic establishment are now out to torpedo any woman who sticks up for choice.  Steve Hildebrand — Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager,  who called up rich donors and [...]

Please thank Dennis Kucinich by donating to his campaign. Because lord knows, PhRMA won’t.

After avoiding direct questions for months, Donna Edwards signed   the July 31 letter  saying she would vote against any health care bill that didn’t have a public option.   I caught up with her at  Netroots Nation and she asked me to have a fundraiser for all the members of Congress who signed the letter. “Carrots, [...]

Now that their scams have all been laid bare, Democratic leadership has resorted to firing on their own troops and threatening to run them all out of office if they don’t vote for the AHIP/PhRMA bailout. So, it looks like it’s time to whip. Earl Blumenauer was one of 65 members of Congress who pledged [...]

According to Politico, Democratic leadership has declared that they are done making changes to the reconciliation measure. Party leaders are beginning to spread the word to rank-and-file lawmakers that they won’t be changing the text of a carefully negotiated “reconciliation” bill to win votes at this point because they can’t undo deals that already have [...]

Greg Sargent is reporting that President Obama is now bringing in undecided members one-by-one to ask them what they would need to see in the health care reform bill in exchange for their support: According to a source familiar with the meeting, the President asked Murphy what he needed in the bill in order to [...]

Today, Dennis Kucinich appeared at a rally with President Obama in Cleveland, despite the fact that the White House sent MoveOn to picket and threaten him if he honors his pledge and votes against the health care bill with no public option. But that’s more than you can say for freshman Congressman John Boccieri, a [...]