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...almost just like ‘of course that would happen,’” she said. “When [Columbia scored] it was just kind of like, ‘I shouldn’t be surprised right now,’ because of the way things have been going this season...
...years—but he also misses the point. An increase in national debt does not in itself lead to negative moral consequences. If the goals of the spending—such as providing health care to the currently uninsured—are sufficiently worthwhile, the net result is almost certainly positive. But Lieberman is not interested in these kinds of moral discussions. An increased national debt is worth avoiding for him, regardless of that spending’s real effects on the lives of Americans...
...Saturday morning, about 12 hours before the House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation to expand health care coverage to almost all Americans, President Barack Obama did what he does best: he gave an inspirational speech meant to rally recalcitrant House Democrats. Many in the room credited Obama with swaying the last of the fence sitters. "A few members that were leaning no told me afterward that they'd been moved to vote yes," Representative Rob Andrews, a New Jersey Democrat, told reporters after the meeting...
...Even if Reid manages to get his bill through by the end of the year, he'll then have to confront the messy prospect of merging it with the more liberal version passed by the House. But in some respects, the thorny details of the process have become almost secondary to the larger goal; Democrats are betting that they were elected on a platform of change, and they argue that health care is the first true piece of their platform, given that they have had to spend the first months of Obama's presidency dealing with the economic ruins...
...independent voters swinging their way - even though their strategy has involved little beyond saying no. Their 209-page health care alternative, produced less than a week before passage of the Democratic bill, was widely panned as a flimsy attempt at cost-curbing that did little to expand coverage and almost nothing in the way of new protections, such as those for consumers who have pre-existing medical conditions. The risk is at least as great for Republicans. "The small-bore, crabbed and nearly meaningless reform plan they produced in the House after months of nothing but complaining about the Democrats...