Politics
Why Obama's health reforms are in trouble
He has given Congress too much say and shifted the rationale. The electorate is over-stressed. Time for incrementalism, if Obama and the Hill Democrats can pull it off.
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NPR's George Nethercutt blunder
They let a GOP lobbyist and faux populist prattle on about American anger, without saying who he is.
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Alaska's loose harpoon still distorts the health care debate
The sanity wing of the GOP makes a feeble effort to stamp out the misrepresentations about 'death panels,' before reverting to Palin politics once more
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More 'progressive' than thou
Is a progressive just a liberal fearful of using the word? Rather, progressivism and liberalism are two complementary traditions brought together in organizations like the local Fuse.
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Everett: God's gift to Seattle politics
It's understandable that Joe Mallahan, a son of Everett (the Athens of Puget Sound), will be shy about lording it over his Seattle fellow-candidates. And that Dow Constantine would drip Everett-envy.