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Should Democrats Give Up on the Individual Health Insurance Mandate?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe most controversial part of the Affordable Care Act is its requirement that, starting in 2014, almost everyone in the country has to buy health insurance. The left calls it a sop to insurance companies, the right calls it unconstitutional, and polls show that the public opposes the requirement 2 to 1. Could the "individual mandate" disappear? And would that unravel the whole health-care reform law? House Republicans are poised this week to pass the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act," though perhaps in a more "thoughtful" mode than was contemplated before the Arizona shootings ...
Howard Dean: Health Care Mandate Doomed, Tea Party Uneasy About Diversity
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyHoward Dean -- doctor, former presidential candidate, former Democratic Party chairman and former Vermont governor -- says the new health care law's individual mandate requiring people to buy health insurance is doomed and not necessary for the law to succeed. Dean offered up that unvarnished opinion and others Wednesday at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, including his views on the upcoming White House staff shake-up and Speaker John Boehner's challenges with a tea party movement that Dean says is having trouble embracing the nation's demographic diversity. On 2012, Dean reiterated ...
Will Liberals Challenge Obama Amid the Snows of New Hampshire?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLiberal Democrats are, by nature and history, a perpetually disappointed voting bloc. They are either consigned to wail in the political wilderness (the Bush years and the Reagan years) or else the fruits of victory quickly sour on their tongues (the triangulating Bill Clinton). Liberal malaise again afflicts the body politic. According to a recent poll conducted by the Marist Institute for McClatchy News, Obama's approval rating among Democrats has fallen to 74 percent and to 69 percent among liberals. House Democrats are still seething over Obama's tax-cut compromise with congressional ...
Liberal Primary Challenge to Obama in 2012? Feingold, Dean Say 'Not Me'
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe midterm rout of Democrats immediately sparked debate over whether President Obama will face a primary challenge in 2012. Republican pollster Bill McInturff tried to fuel that speculation Thursday, saying that Obama will "more than likely" face competition from the left. McInturff, speaking at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, said his polling shows Obama has a problem on Afghanistan, because most in his party do not support the war. He said the rationale for someone like Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, who was defeated this week, would include issues such as Afghanistan, not closing ...
Mosque Debate Muddles Partisan Lines: Howard Dean Against, Ted Olson For
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- Though New York Democratic officials, including Gov. David Paterson, are divided on whether the Park51 "ground zero mosque" project should proceed, nationally the issue has largely and predictably broken down along partisan lines. Republicans, especially religious conservatives like Sarah Palin, are against it, while Democrats, including President Barack Obama, are for it. But a couple of prominent political figures now have muddled the line. Beloved liberal politician Howard Dean, one of the few Democratic 2004 presidential candidates who opposed the Iraq war, called the Islamic ...
Obama Administration Intimidated by Right on Race, Critics Say
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe fallout from the Shirley Sherrod affair continued Sunday with a leading black commentator saying the Obama administration "has been intimidated by the far right wing," and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich blaming the Obama administration's "incompetence" in rushing to judgment on her for his initial description of her as a racist. Sherrod, an African-American who had been the Georgia state director for rural development, was forced to quit after conservative gadfly Andrew Breitbart attacked her on his website -- it turned out incorrectly -- for a talk she gave to the NAACP where one ...
Opinion: Take Our Country Back -- to What?
By Michael Medved - AOL News(July 23) -- If conservatives hope to succeed in their determined efforts to take the government back, they should drop the popular but misguided slogan about "taking our country back." This punchy little phrase -- ubiquitous on signs and in speeches at tea parties and Republican rallies -- could actually drive away some of the independent voters the anti-Obama forces need most for victory. Even worse, the push to "take our country back" brings with it unavoidable racial overtones that pragmatic conservatives should scrupulously avoid. Yes, an arrogantly incompetent president has combined ...
Axelrod Says Health Reform Supporters Are on the 'One Yard Line'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySenior White House Adviser David Axelrod said today that supporters of health care reform are "right on the one-yard line" to push through passage of the legislation now that the Senate Democratic leadership says it has the 60 votes necessary to pass their version this week. ...
Howard Dean's Newest Scream: Vote No on Senate Health Bill
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWe know you can't make all of the people happy all of the time, but it appears that Harry Reid's version of heath reform is quickly making none of the people happy all of the time. After months of Republicans blasting the bill as a massive new government entitlement program, progressive hero Howard Dean is sending his fellow liberals in the Senate a loud and clear message -- "Vote No." In Thursday morning's Washington Post, Dean says the health bill now in the Senate has morphed into a massive sop to the insurance industry that's masquerading as real reform. Instead of lowering costs and ...
Howard Dean Is Moving Toward Reality on Reform; Other Liberals Should, Too
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyLook to Howard Dean for cues and clues to the fate of health reform. The former Vermont governor, presidential candidate and Democratic Party chairman was adamant last spring that real health reform had to include a government-run public plan. He's now supportive of a Senate compromise that's a long way from where we started, but possibly the only way to get us to the finish line. Dean, a medical doctor who achieved near universal coverage of Vermont children when he was governor, has been talking for years about opening up Medicare to people who are younger than 65. He discussed the idea a ...
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