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  • A Republican Fiasco Years in the Making

    Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg View|Mar 30, 2017

    After seven years of pledging to repeal and replace Obamacare as soon as possible, Republicans today pulled their bill from the House floor just before a scheduled vote -- because it was going to go down in flames. We should pause and realize what a big deal this is. The number one agenda item for years, the one that most House Republicans campaigned on when first elected, and they couldn’t manage to even get an initial bill out of the House. Not only that, but it was clear this week that even though most of them were willing to vote for it, p...

  • George H.W. Bush's Defection is a Big Deal

    Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg View|Sep 29, 2016

    George H.W. Bush is planning to vote for Hillary Clinton. That’s not considered major news by most mainstream outlets. But it should be. The story, first picked up by Politico late Monday night from a Facebook post by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former Maryland lieutenant governor, got almost no play, for example, from the New York Times. It created only a very small flurry of interest on Twitter, at least judging from my feed. The only previous exceptions after Franklin Roosevelt to the norm that former presidents support their party’s nom...