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Nadler: How We Can Still Do True Healthcare Reform

Here we are, at the end of a week in which I’m sure I wasn’t alone in trying really hard to look away from what was going on in Washington (and failing miserably).  As someone who thinks that the Senate healthcare bill as is may not be worth passing, but does not want to see healthcare reform fail again, I’ve been stuck– I can’t really hate on those House members who are unwilling to pass the Senate’s bill, and I… Read More

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Mr. President: Forget Bipartisanship On This One

Krugman on Friday:

…there’s a growing sense among progressives that they have, as my New York Times colleague Frank Rich suggests, been punked. And that’s why the mixed signals [from the President] on the public option created such an uproar.

Now, politics is the art of the possible. Obama was never going to get everything his supporters wanted.

But there’s a point at which realism shades over into weakness. It seems as if there is nothing Republicans can do that

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