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John Edwards, the Democratic presidential contender, says it “is a
fantasy” to believe “you can sit at a table” with powerful interests
in the healthcare industry “and negotiate and compromise” a plan that
will produce universal health coverage.
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It says something about modern politics that Sen.
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Following familiar grooves, the Republican and Democratic
presidential contenders are already arguing about whether Washington
should expand or reduce its role in confronting domestic problems
such as education and healthcare.
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The Democratic presidential candidates ought to hear alarm bells
ringing over the labor union uprising that’s threatening to sink
sweeping healthcare reform in California.
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Christian charity was conspicuously absent from the leaflets that
supporters of the leading Republican presidential candidates handed
out at last weekend’s summit of socially conservative “values voters.”
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The most serious studies of the bipartisan children’s health bill
that President Bush vetoed last week all show that it directs the
vast majority of its benefits toward the very low-income working
families that Bush says he wants the program to target.
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The tragedy in Washington’s escalating confrontation on children’s healthcare is that the legislation Congress is on track to approve this week with substantial bipartisan support advances precisely the goal President Bush claims as his priority.
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Next summer, less than four months before the November election, there will still be about as many American troops fighting in Iraq as there were on the day of the Democratic sweep in the November 2006 election.
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Not for the first time, self-awareness was in short supply across Washington during this week’s marathon congressional hearings on Iraq with Gen.
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