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Reid's Payroll Tax Deception -- By: Yuval Levin

The health care bill the Senate will take up after Thanksgiving offers so many rich targets for criticism it’s hard to know where to start. But the folks over at e21 offer a great brief analysis of one of the most dishonest and cynical ploys in the ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  23 Nov 2009

Reid's Turkey -- By: Yuval Levin

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has finally released the text of his version of the Democrats’ health care bill. The roughly 2,000 page bill is a monstrosity, pure and simple. It is fiscal madness, for one thing. CBO’s 10-year projection scores its ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate,  Harry Reid

The House Vote -- By: Yuval Levin

Whichever house of Congress voted first on a health care bill was always going to make things harder for the other, and last night Nancy Pelosi certainly made things harder for Harry Reid. Whatever bill language Reid is able to finagle out of the two ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nancy Pelosi,  Harry Reid

Great Timing -- By: Yuval Levin

Harry Reid, in a continuing (and spectacularly effective) effort to demonstrate his lack of political instincts, somehow chose yesterday to drop a hint that he thought the health-care debate would stretch into next year. Could there be a better way to ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harry Reid

The Exception Proves the Rule -- By: Yuval Levin

Isn’t it a little strange to argue that the NY-23 result should take the wind of N.J. and Va. out of Republican sails? It seems to me that that result makes exactly the same point as the two governor’s races: A Republican running as a conservative ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

House First -- By: Yuval Levin

It has seemed for a few weeks as though the Senate was likely to move first on health care reform, and the House leadership would wait to see what could pass in the upper chamber before sending their members out on a limb for a bill that might end up ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nancy Pelosi,  Bill Kristol,  U.S. Democratic Party

The Doc Fix Vote -- By: Yuval Levin

Conversations on the Hill this afternoon suggest Harry Reid has done himself some damage with the failed vote on the fix to the Medicare doctor payment formula. He lost significantly more Democrats than he expected, and seemed to lose control of what ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Harry Reid,  U.S. Republican Party

Standing Athwart? -- By: Yuval Levin

Olympia Snowe, explaining her vote in favor of the Baucus bill: Is this bill all that I want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? Far from it. But when history calls, history calls. Downright Hegelian, not to mention characteristically well-reasoned. ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  13 Oct 2009

Fewer Options, Higher Costs -- By: Yuval Levin

Many critics of the Democrats’ health care proposals have argued that the plans would not only harm the quality of American health care and reduce the options available to doctors and patients, but would actually increase the cost of health insurance ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  PricewaterhouseCoopers,  U.S. Senate

The Nobel for Narcissism -- By: Yuval Levin

The prize, and the question, also risk awakening with a vengeance the notorious good sense of the American public, and its democratic intolerance for pompous arrogance and nonsense. In its fatigue with Republicans, and its unease with John McCain's ...

From YUVAL LEVIN, The Corner,  9 Oct 2009

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

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