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Health Insurers and Democrats: An Awkward Embrace

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W and O share an awkward embrace. (Credit: Life)

Pres­i­dent Bush and Oprah shared an awk­ward embrace — but not near­ly as awk­ward as the one between health insur­ers and the Admin­is­tra­tion.  (Cred­it: Life)

When it comes to health insur­ance com­pa­nies, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty is divid­ed between those that don’t like them and those that real­ly don’t like them.

The suc­cess of the new health law, how­ev­er, depends in large part on the will­ing­ness of insur­ers to par­tic­i­pate in its health insur­ance “exchanges.”

How’s that work­ing out? Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Benghazi, the IRS and the Perils of Power

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Pho­to cred­it: Huff­in­g­ton Post

What is it that makes sec­ond terms so polit­i­cal­ly treach­er­ous? Received wis­dom tells us that scan­dal is root­ed in hubris – a new­ly re-elect­ed Pres­i­dent, hav­ing stared down the threat of polit­i­cal extinc­tion, now thinks him­self invul­ner­a­ble, and soon enough is caught up in scandal.

But I think some­thing more fun­da­men­tal is at work. Con­tin­ue read­ing →