Democrats

We don’t know Stupak

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 March 2010

Days after the Senate version of the health care bill was ceremoniously and victoriously signed into law, media people are still writing about the man who made it happen. Besides President Obama…

Headed for socialised health care?

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 March 2010

Even avoiding the usual sources of polemics in the political debate over the Democrats’ health care legislation, one continually encounters dramatic predictions of its consequences. Like this U.S. News & World Report piece proclaiming the U.S. is headed toward socialised medicine.

Obama’s shifting strategy

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 March 2010

His rapid trajectory of political success started on the streets and in neighborhood gatherings on the south side of Chicago, and now the Community Organizer-in-Chief is applying his street savvy instincts again to the conditions he finds people in, which is change they didn’t count on.

The ‘real’ reason Bayh is leaving

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 February 2010

Actually, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh made it perfectly and startlingly clear why he’s leaving Congress in the press conference he gave when he dropped that bombshell announcement. Washington is a mess, it’s broken, mired in partisan political bickering, and nothing’s getting done for the people. In fact, the business of running the nation’s affairs is just one more business that’s gone bankrupt.