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Jonathan Chait has been senior editor at The New Republic since 1995. He has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Slate, Time, The American Prospect, as well as other publications.

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Popularity Contest

On the inside cover of the last issue of The New Republic, the conservative American Future Fund (AFF) took out an advertisement helpfully warning moderate Democrats to abandon health care reform. The ad features head shots of numerous Democratic ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  ASEAN Football Federation,  The New Republic,  U.S. Congress

The Final Descent Of John McCain

Sometime last year, I remember watching a video of Barack Obama addressing his campaign staff in Chicago. The talk took place after Obama had won the Democratic primary. It was a pep talk, and the theme was, “Now it’s really serious, we have to win.” ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House

Joe Lieberman Is Hallucinating

It’s classic politics of our time that if you look at the campaign last year, presidential, you can’t find a mention of public option,” Lieberman said. “It was added after the election as a part of what we normally consider health insurance reform — ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  The Politico

Senate Health Bill Reduces Deficit By More Over Time

In the House bill, and I'm sure in the bill that we will hear about tomorrow in the Senate, it's ten years of people paying in, and six or seven years of health care [paying out] because [the benefits] kick in later. So that is how you make the numbers ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Politico's Not-Very-Ethical Op-Ed

Bill Frist and John Breaux have a column in Politico urging Congress to build on the success of the 2003 Medicare prescription drug act, and not to cut any subsidies out of Medicare Advantage, the lucrative boondoggle created by that act. As Matthew ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Frist,  John Breaux

"The Persecution of Sarah Palin": It's So Simple, Fred Barnes Can Read It!

I think there are lots of pictures, as a matter of fact. It's shocking that Palin supporters, falling all over each other to persuade the nation that this woman is a serious person, would actually make these arguments in favor of her book. "See - it's ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Fred Barnes,  Sarah Palin

Rumors Before The Internet

Forty years ago, the rumor that Paul McCartney had died, and that the Beatles had covered up his death while for some reason scattering clues of it in their albums, leapt from the counterculture to the mainstream, where it briefly transfixed millions. ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  11 Nov 2009

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Republicans Would Never Exaggerate A Bill's Cost, Would They?

it seems to me quite obvious how the number got picked and why it became a hard limit:  it would be very difficult to sell a bill that's any bigger.  A health care bill much bigger could be plausibly rounded up to a trillion dollars by the opposition, ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  11 Nov 2009

Sarah Palin and Her Powerful Elite Enemies

I don't wish to join Isaac in piling on Matthew Continetti's love letter to Sarah Palin in the Weekly Standard. Wait. Let me re-phrase that. I do wish to join Isaac in piling on Matthew Continetti's love letter to Sarah Palin in the Weekly Standard. I ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Maureen Dowd,  Matt Taibbi,  Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Obama's Anzio, Or Ben Nelson's?

Paul Krugman's column today is about how the stimulus was too small. I agree entirely. What I find puzzling is his apparent belief that teh Obama administration is the primary culprit for this shortcoming. Here's Krugman: But while health care won’t be ...

From JONATHAN CHAIT, The New Republic,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Paul Krugman,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House

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