People forget that, less than a decade ago, the House of Representatives passed a health care bill with a public option. It could have gotten a majority vote in the Senate, too. But it couldn’t get 60 votes, so it died.

I feel like we’re always trying to find cultural reasons for why Americans don’t want universal health care. I’m inclined to think that most do want it, but are ill-served by our system of government. No other country requires a supermajority vote in their (laughably undemocratic) upper house to pass routine…

When Selma marchers were awarded the gold congressional medal of honor in 2016, my mother urged my dad to figure out how he could get one.

This is a bad take. Democrats need to think about the short-term realities of the health care system, as well as their medium- and long-term plans.

I suppose this theory is possible. It’s easy to imagine a casually racist 55-year-old man softening his tone on the ACA after receiving a subsidized plan for himself.

Jesus Christ, these fucking cowards. Trump’s order hasn’t cut any funding yet. He just instructed his government to figure out how. And even when they do that, it will probably end up being unconstitutional.

If a vote becomes widely publicized, as this one was, then it isn’t a secret, even if it happened late at night.

It wasn’t a secret vote, and was the first of several votes needed to actually end the ACA.

I’m tired of living in a world where ever since Trump won every crazy, improbable thing is suddenly treated like it could happen tomorrow.

House and Senate leadership have not changed. Is there any evidence that McConnell and Ryan want to leave the UN? Or that McConnell would muster the votes to eliminate the filibuster in order to leave the UN?

Obama himself torpedoed drug price negotiation in the ACA so we’re stuck with importing as the only option now.

I’m not saying this amendment is bad, or that Democrats should have opposed it. But the idea of importing drugs from Canada always confused me.

How about we stop worrying over whether Democrats will oppose ever tiny GOP proposal and just focus on opposing the big ones. Like the massive entitlement cuts that Paul Ryan is cooking, and that Trump will probably be convinced to sign.

When I was young and naive, I thought an Electoral College/popular vote mismatch would cause a Constitutional crisis.

As long as Trump is their useful idiot, he can do what he wants.

Indeed. And thanks to our wonderful electoral system, if we work twice as hard as Republicans and show up to the polls with large enough margins, we might even win a seat here or there. 

The damage was done long before Obama told Putin to stop. The damage was done when the media decided Clinton’s win was assured and that she should be dogged relentlessly for every email revelation, real or imagined. We can complain about Russia all we want, but Russians didn’t force the New York Times to dedicate…

There’s still a chance that Anthony Kennedy could be convinced on partisan gerrymandering. He’s shown an interest, but wants to see someone develop a more specific standard for when gerrymandering is too partisan. The reason why the Case that just came out of Wisconsin is exciting is because it proposes such a…

I also want to point out that in Massachusetts, where I live, Democrats have had a supermajority basically forever. But when Republican Charlie Baker was elected both Dem leaders sat down and had a nice meeting about all the common ground they hoped to achieve.

I’m trying not to feel apoplectic about this, but it’s hard to.