Maureen Dowd Horks from Josh Marshall
This is weird. The passages are practically identical — how the hell did this happen? I can’t imagine that she would deliberately hork an entire paragraph. Or would she? Either way, it’s a shame...
View ArticleThe Option of Conscience Idea Is Spreading
For several weeks now, I’ve been beating a drum (here and here for example) about how the public option is the option of good conscience — an escape hatch for those of us who don’t want to be forced by...
View Article'Opt Out' Public Option Gaining Momentum
Josh Marshall: …just on the face of it, this sounds like a compromise reformers could embrace because I suspect many, probably most states would opt in, providing a plenty large enough pool to get to...
View ArticleThe Same Old Song and Dance
This paragraph from Ezra Klein summarizes all of the public option chaos today: Word on the street is that the White House has told congressional leaders that it supports a public-option trigger in the...
View Article'Sloganeering'
Josh Marshall on “kill the bill” and “burn it down”: …there seems to be a clear correlation between people who have followed health care policy closely for years (and know it inside and out) and those...
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