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That’s what makes this attempt at reform so disheartening. Democrats could have, with Republican support, enacted radical changes to the U.S. healthcare system that would reduce costs for American families. Instead, they put a costly, partisan band-aid on the gaping bullet wound of skyrocketing health care costs. This is not “change” we can, or should, believe in, and we can only “hope” that Republicans win back enough seats in November to repeal...
...Union (CDU) party began forming a new center-right government with Westerwelle's probusiness Free Democratic Party (FDP), the alliance that was billed as a marriage made in heaven is on the rocks. The government has been riven by infighting, bitter personal rivalries and squabbles over policy direction. The partisan bickering has grown so bad it threatens complete inertia. "The new government [has] had a catastrophic start," Gerd Langguth, author of a biography of Chancellor Merkel, tells TIME. "There's a cacophony of ideas and egos, and Angela Merkel still hasn't come up with a vision...
...falling action in the Senate over the next week or two will only exacerbate the partisan divide in Washington, inevitably mirrored throughout the country for the rest of the year. Republicans in the upper chamber not only will vociferously oppose the Democratic plan to pass the changes to their bill with the simple majority procedure known as reconciliation but will also make it clear that any prospect for meaningful bipartisan cooperation on any and all issues is dead and buried, at least...
...time, Specter's switch was hailed as a heady affirmation that Barack Obama had ushered the nation into a new, post-partisan era. With the defection of one of its last Senate moderates, what was left of the GOP appeared to be careering rightward, to a hard-core base that was beginning to resemble a cult as much as a political party. (See 10 elections that changed America...
...Representatives and the Senate, thousands of town-hall meetings across the country, countless days of blockading through various Congressional rules and regulations, and preliminary passage in both chambers of Congress, it is high time for our members of Congress to pass comprehensive health-care reform. Yet it seems that partisan tactics will forever stymie any real reform. Therefore, we believe it was appropriate for President Obama last week to indirectly call on Congress to invoke reconciliation, a budget procedure that allows for a simple-majority vote to overcome fiscal differences in the House and Senate versions of their...