Politico (again) breaks a major story this morning with its outing of the Dem secret plan that Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation has been warning of for more than ten days: a former House and Senate leadership aide sent an email sketching out another route to passage. Instead of introducing a Senate bill, Majority Leader Reid could insert the merged health care reform language | Read More »
The politics of passing health care reform are exactly opposite in the Democratic controlled U.S. House and U.S. Senate. 1) In the House, Speaker Pelosi, staying true to her San Francisco Democratic roots will not pass health reform without a public option — and she has a recent letter signed by 83 of her Dem House colleagues from the Progressive Caucus, telling the President that | Read More »
From Bloomberg: A survey of 4,518 likely voters by Zogby International Aug. 28-31 put Obama’s approval rating at a record-low 42 percent; it also showed he’s well liked. “He’s got to get control of his presidency,” said John Zogby, president of Zogby International. And the Washington Post has the following assessment for Obamacare: With health-care reform, the administration appears to have two options, one of | Read More »
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