Barack Obama
Under Obamacare, Some Blue Cross Insurance is Free
The New York Times reports that Obamacare subsidies are making some health insurance plans essentially free after rebate.
Now’s the Time: End the Filibuster
Fresh off the government shutdown,Republicans in the Senate are giving us …another shutdown. This time it’s in miniature: They’re threatening to filibuster one of President […]
President Obama on NSA Wiretapping: Incompetent or Unaware?
“Asleep at the wheel” is the idiom we use for a leader who is so inattentive at important moments that he or she is dangerous. […]
Market Report: Obamas are Officially Best-Dressed Political Family
Check out Sasha and Malia’s coats. And that suede dress on FLOTUS! [Huffington Post] From intern to head of Moschino: Jeremy Scott takes over. [Style.com] Today, […]
Expert: Here’s Why Healthcare.gov Has Been a Disaster
On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced that it had tapped Jeffrey Zients – a Bain & Co. alum and incoming head of the National Economic […]
Joan Walsh is Wrong: Liberals Should Criticize Obamacare Problems
One of the things I hate about ideology—left or right—is how easy one’s worldview about politics can transmute into something lazier, dumber, tribalistic and ultimately […]
Are You Part of the “Sleepless Elite”?
The White House has announced a “tech blitz” to take on the glitches at HealthCare.gov that have been thwarting millions of Americans attempting to sign […]
How to Fix ObamaCare and End the Shutdown
Say, wouldn’t this all be easier if we’d simply passed a single-payer health insurance program? We’ve spent several weeks now watching, first, the House of […]
Are Conservatives Really Ready to Default on America’s Debt?
One of conservatism’s really great beliefs (I’m serious about this) is about the unknowability of the future: That well-intentioned actions can have big unintended consequences; […]
Why Millennials Should Opt Out of Obamacare
Sometime back in 2001, Denzel Washington brought his ’79 Monte Carlo to a dead stop in the middle of a bustling LA intersection to hold […]
Democrats Screwed Themselves Using “Obamacare”
Question to Democrats: Whose bright idea was it for you to start using the term “Obamacare?” Oh, yeah, that’s right–it was the guy who created […]
Too Much Eye Contact: Maybe This Is Why the Government Shut Down!
So yesterday John Boehner and President Obama sat down for a face-to-face chat, and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENED. Throughout the country, journalists lamented: How can this […]
Americans Are Losing Faith in Each Other. Are We Losing Our Democracy, Too?
So, America, are you ready for a dictator yet? That seems like a crazy question to ask, doesn’t it? After all, we Americans practically invented […]
The Government Is Shut Down! Obamacare Has Started! The World Has Gone Higgledy-Piggledy!
The New York Times reports that the government is shutting down for the first time in nearly 20 years: “The impasse meant that 800,000 federal […]
When The Government Shutdown Comes, Let’s Scrap It and Start Over
That’s it. Time to scrap everything and start over. When government shuts down this week—and as of this writing, such a shutdown seemed a certainty—we […]