Democrats Go to War
Art Levine, a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, has written for Mother Jones, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Slate.com, Salon.com, and numerous other publications. He also blogs regularly on labor, health, and other reform issues for In These Times and Huffington Post.
With the public option dead for now, the left is launching attack ads against centrist and Blue Dog Democrats-and Rahm Emanuel, the poster child for Netroots betrayal.
Health Care's Jilted Crusader
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
No matter the Cabinet snub, the barely buried hatchet with Rahm, the humiliating exit from the DNC-Howard Dean is tirelessly evangelizing Obamacare, whether the president wants him to or not.
So much for bipartisanship: Obama's getting aggressive, Steele is talking smack, and a GOP senator is planning the president's "Waterloo." The latest left and right hooks out of Washington.
Dr. Dean's Second Opinion
Howard Dean is a DNC Chairman Emeritus, former presidential candidate, six-term Governor of Vermont, founder of Democracy for America, and physician. He works as an independent consultant focusing on health care, early childhood development, alternative energy and the expansion of grassroots politics around the world. Dean also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Progressive Book Club, and is a contributor on CNBC.
Republicans are ramping up attacks on President Obama's proposed health-care plan as he pushes Congress to pass the bills before summer. Howard Dean, the former chairman of the DNC, tells us what to like about the plan-and why 2009 won't be like 1993.
The Fight Over Hillary's Seat
Andrew Tobias is a Democratic fundraiser and the author of three New York Times best-sellers: Fire and Ice: The Charles Revson/Revlon Story, The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need, and The Invisible Bankers.
Carolyn Maloney should get out of the way and not challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for New York's Senate seat, says Democratic fundraiser Andrew Tobias. Five reasons why Maloney's primary move would hurt the party.
100 Days of Silliness
Amanda Terkel is Managing Editor of ThinkProgress.org and Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
GOP chairman Michael Steele angered Rush Limbaugh, annoys donors, and can't inspire the base-and those are the high points of his first three months, Republicans tell The Daily Beast.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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