It now looks likely that Obama will be able to sign some version of comprehensive health care reform by the end of the year. There are still numerous hurdles to leap, but the momentum appears to have built to the point that the discussion is about what the bill will contain rather than whether it [...]

My fellow Americans, I’m speaking to you today from the Oval Office on a subject of great importance to all of us. The past few weeks have seen the debate over health care reform turn into an ugly, angry, divisive shouting match. Senators and Congressmen have been shouted down, insulted, even threatened at town hall [...]

The GOP-encouraged, right wing media-inflamed, health care industry-funded mobs engaged in shouting down Democratic congressmen and Senators at town hall meetings presents us with a new low from a party I thought couldn’t sink any deeper. The goal, of course, is to defeat health care reform by drowning out the support with a wall of [...]