One of my strongest hopes is that everyone in the media, especially on the left, can simply stop pretending the new health reform law is some great progressive victory. It is not. It is a conservative, pro-corporate piece of legislation. From the CBS News: Obama: Well, partly because I couldn’t get the kind of cooperation [...]

Now that President Obama and the rest of the Democratic leadership no longer need to hide from their base that the new health care law is in fact a pro-health insurance industry Republican plan as part of a push to enact the law, they are openly admitting the plan’s true origins. This bill is a [...]

Leave aside the lack of a public option and the fact that the weak exchanges are probably unworkable. And, for now, let’s ignore the poorly designed regulator framework and the huge give away to PhRMA. (I know, big stuff to leave aside). Let’s just look at Baucus’s bill from 10,000 feet. For starters, being “covered” [...]

The word around town (or DC for that matter, not my town, Columbus) is that Sen. McCain may pick his VP just as the Democrats are closing shop in Denver, to limit any Democratic bounce.

It looks like it might be Mitt Romney too, which might even be more helpful as his Mormon background might get some positive press in Colorado and surrounding states where there is a large Mormon base–such