private insurers the flexibility to deny protection to countless other

private insurers the flexibility to deny protection to countless other folks is also good. People who stand in opposition to these important concepts because of an ideological conceit no matter whether or not it's Joe Lieberman s opposition to a community option, Ben Nelson s opposition to abortion funding or Democracy for America s opposition to somebody mandate are proving a degree that conservatives have extended manufactured: that Democrats are too feckless to govern.
For your sake of all people life that may be eased if this laws passes, I hope that s not the case. In the meantime, the Deaniacs ought to be ashamed of them selves.
Joe Klein is TIME's political columnist and author of six books, most recently Politics Dropped. His weekly TIME column, "In the sector," addresses national and international affairs.




Wolf’s Wrongs

The Wolfowitz scandal has been rather opaque for me beyond the sadly unsurprising news of a Bush administration official practicing cronyism, why is it such a big deal? The New Republic s Michael Currie Schaffer does a great job of laying out the pragmatic case for seeing Wolfowitz s missteps as a very serious blow to our national interests:
It s one thing when some newly arrived hack from the Mississippi Republican Party staff starts feathering his nest via dubious Interior Department regulatory policies. Everyone knows the right loathes regulation in the first place; if that contempt slides into corruption every now and then, no one s ideals are going to be eu702 shattered. But a guy like Wolfowitz with his Ph.D. and his stirring talk of democratization and his sermons about the moral outrages of even a U.S.-backed dictator like Suharto is something else entirely. Convenient as it may lexia 3 have been for his battered post-Pentagon reputation, he was right to focus on corruption when he arrived at the World Bank. So when he bungles the handling of a basic personnel matter, he cuts the legs out from underneath a worthy, desperately needed initiative just like the high-profile