compromises
Your editor thinks it was adorable when young Riley Waggaman said this morning that “Democrats win” on this whole tax cut thing, because c’mon, Riley, even Democrats themselves don’t think that. You are Thinking Progress too much. According to Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, and “many other House and Senate Democrats,” that strange, menacing smoke monster [...]
It’s Christmas in the Senate Finance Committee! Max Baucus has crafted his latest proposal for bipartisan health care reform by doing what responsible centrists always do: lopping off a random $100 billion from the price tag and declaring, “this is bipartisan, now.” It features all sorts of lovely concessions on significant planks of the earlier [...]
