The Fight Against Transferring Gitmo Detainees
Obama's second attempt at a plan seems unlikely to please the opposition.
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Lois Lerner will plead the Fifth before a congressional committee investigating the IRS's targeting of conservative groups. Lerner broke the news of the scandal — even to President Obama! — by planting a question at a tax lawyers' conference. In hindsight, that strategy for releasing the news does not look like it was a great idea.
Obama's second attempt at a plan seems unlikely to please the opposition.
Two questions you're not allowed to ask about health care.
They're both partisan wingnuts, but few deny they're treated differently. Why?
Is the device humane? What about effective? Liberals and conservatives seem to agree on this one.
Columnists weigh in on this and other vexing questions in the health care debate.
Atlantic bloggers take on the big, fat story.
What's driving Democrats to consider taking down one of their own members in the Senate?
Mitt Romney takes to the op-ed pages to celebrate his roundly-dismissed health care reforms in Massachusetts.
The President's numbers on health care reform take a dive, and columnists wonder if he's the right salesman for the job.
If SCOTUS confirmation hearings are useless, then what should we do about it? Notes on a shoddy process and how to improve it.
Ira Glass says health care is boring. Here are ten quotes from the past week to prove him wrong.
Everyone agrees it's a wise idea, but reform may be harder than driving safely while thumb-typing.
Commentators are offering fresh ideas aimed at helping Obama avoid the fate of the last major push for an overhaul.
Dobbs defends against critics in other networks and his own.
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