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Let me make this clear – if I’m Jim Webb or Mark Warner, I’m not letting a tea-party guy set up a health-care town hall for me, because I’d know what was really being set up – an ambush. That said, and I have a hard time believing that I’m going to agree with David…
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Thursday, Aug. 27 – Press briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton
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One caveat: It has to fit in today’s political reality. Otherwise, this is a one-word (hyphenated) column: single-payer. Even then, though, what I’ve been mulling over the past several weeks would fit into the single-payer model that I envision being politically palatable maybe around 2035.
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Phil Hamilton represents the 93rd House District in the Virginia General Assembly. (He’s also a Facebook friend. Sort of a friend of a friend, but if you were me, and you checked things out to the nth degree, you’d find that out, and wonder why I didn’t say something if I didn’t say something. For…
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Maybe I’m the only one thinking this, but I wonder if the idea of aggressively pursuing investigations and possible criminal prosecutions of Bush administration officials for alleged abuses of U.S. and international law with respect to the treatment of purported terrorist suspects might pick up steam in the context over the ongoing public dustups over…
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Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds delivered an address today at George Mason University outlining his vision for the future of Virginia and delineating key policy differences between himself and Republican candidate Bob McDonnell.
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After taking a few days off to get things back in order, The Agenda is back with a vengeance. Well, OK, vengeance is a strong word. Though it sounds good in the movies to say that you’re back with a vengeance. Good news – we have some activity to report.
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Wednesday, Aug. 19 – Remarks by President Obama honoring 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup champ Jimmie Johnson – Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
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You tell a tea-partier that a key element of health-care reform is reducing overhead costs, and they counter that the overhead costs of private insurers include spending money to investigate allegations of fraud and abuse of the system and collecting on delinquent accounts and that sort of thing. I mention this to Greg Marrow, the…
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“Which one of your candidates is the one that fired his campaign manager?” I happened to be standing at the Staunton-Augusta Democratic Party booth at the Augusta County Fair last week when that question was directed at a volunteer. The reference was to a report from University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato from earlier…
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