Phil Klein

In exchange for dropping the public plan, Senate liberals got a couple of big concessions in the health care bargain made with Democratic moderates. Read More

Yesterday, I noted with some frustration that when John McCain introduced the first GOP amendment to the Senate health care bill on Monday, it was a proposal to stop $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Read More

Megan McArdle has a post explaining how one the one hand it is right for Phil Klein to report that the CBO analysis of the Senate bill indicates that certain premiums will rise and on the other Krugman can claim that it says the exact opposite. Read More

As you may have noticed during the health-care debate, on almost every iteration of the bill, we get a CBO score and then a real cost revealed later, which Democrats reluctantly own up to once confronted with it. Read More

Li-Hua Lan/The Post-Standard Maria DeAngelis does a darn fine interpretation of Joni Mitchell in 2007. Read More

Democrats are divided over abortion, and their divisions threaten to wreck the bill. Read More

One of the more dishonest aspects of the health care debate is the way the Democrats are trying to hide the true cost of health reform legislation. Read More

A leaking gas canister caused a small explosion at a house in Melbourne's east last night. Read More

Mr. Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who caucuses with the Democrats, told reporters Tuesday that he would vote in favor of a procedural motion allowing debate of the bill. Read More

Jennifer Grimes/The Post-Standard Phil Klein, 82, has started a new blog and posted several of his new country music songs. Read More