What is reconciliation?

A lot of people are trying to look forward in time, attempting to predict how the health care legislative process will play out this fall. It is way too soon to make any concrete predictions — I can confidently say that the political dynamics will look quite different four weeks from…

The Administration’s flawed health care argument threatens their fiscal policy strategy

The President’s fiscal policy is based upon a flawed health care premise, and the flaws are becoming apparent to a wider audience. The Administration’s fiscal strategy is to…

Not a blank check

Here’s the President on the Michael Smerconish radio show today:

THE PRESIDENT: The auto interventions weren’t started by me — they were started by a conservative Republican administration. The only thing that we did was rather than just write GM and Chrysler a blank…

A health care fallback strategy, or merely a messaging shift?

The President and Speaker Pelosi have shifted their health care message for the August Congressional recess. They are no longer talking about health care reform and covering all of the uninsured. They are instead:

The President repeats an important math error

In Grand Junction, Colorado last Saturday, the President repeated an arithmetic error he made earlier in the week:

Now, what I’ve proposed is going to cost roughly $900 billion — $800 billion to $900 billion. That’s a lot of…

Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 19)

Here’s the second-to-last post in this series discussing the President’s remarks on health care reform in Portsmouth, New Hampshire:

THE PRESIDENT: About two-thirds of those costs we can cover by eliminating the…