Obama retreats from fight on ‘public option.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 1st at 11:28 PM  | 

I wonder what else he’s planning to give up? Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO. Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a | Read More »

Now it’s the *administration* who’s using the term ‘Waterloo.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 19th at 09:04 AM  | 

Non-ironically, to boot. But at a time when the president had hoped to be selling middle-class voters on how insurance reforms would benefit them, the White House instead finds itself mired in a Democratic Party feud over an issue it never intended to spotlight. “I don’t understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo,” said a senior White House | Read More »