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How a bill really becomes a law: health care reform (part 1)
My old boss Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) once told me, "Others want to win the debate. You help me win the vote." After all the important preliminaries, practical legislating ultimately becomes a question of procedural rules and how many votes you have on any given question.
Giving thanks
Thanks to Karl Rove for his reference in yesterday's Wall Street Journal column, and for the shout-out on Fox and Friends. Thanks to Sean Hannity for the mention on his radio broadcast yesterday. And thanks [...]
Many mixed signals
The President and Vice President have this week sent mixed and confusing signals on the macroeconomic picture. This seems to be part of a broader problem with the Administration's ability to send clear, coordinated, and internally consistent signals on economic policy.
Scrambling for a macroeconomic message
Provoked by the Vice President's comment on Sunday that the Administration "misread the economy," the Obama Administration is partway through an unplanned shift in their topline economic message. It's hard to reconcile a "stay the course" strategy with (a) new bad data, (b) "we misread the economy" and (c) "we had incomplete information."