Lucre-Addicted Senate Democrats Are Blowing It on Health Care

If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year – or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the “public option” – then the public will rightly blame Democrats, who have no excuse for failure except their own cowardice and corruption. The punishment inflicted by angry Read More

No Regrets on Iraq

NPR ran a story yesterday asking Senate Democrats a simple question: do they regret their votes to authorize the invasion of Iraq.

Many say they do have regrets, including Chris Dodd, Diane Feinstein.

But Chuck is one of the few to defend his vote strongly: “I believe you have to fight a strong war Read More

California Schemin’: A Tip Sheet On The Latest Maladies

Channel-surfing the other night-while reading a magazine, eating dinner, answering a phone call, bouncing a 3-year-old boy in my lap and musing about whether Hillary is going to run for President in 2004-I was brought up short by a TV commercial from the Eli Lilly drug company about the perils of Adult Attention-Deficit Disorder.

Watching Read More