Only in Obama’s America could a congressman who made the right statement at the wrong time be called a racist. But that’s exactly what happened to South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson, herald of the now infamous “you lie!” interjection that sent on-call Washington hyper-partisans into a raving frenzy after the ...

If you thought the health care debate was contentious enough, you ain't seen nothing yet. Today, top Senate Democrats expressed their intention on passing the president's health care reform package at any cost, even if that means circumventing normal legislative rules, thus inviting a flurry of Republican parliamentary tactics designed to ...

Let it be known throughout the land that decorum in our nation's capitol is dead, or at least on life support. That's for you, Joe Wilson. And you, Hank Johnson. And, yes, you, Jimmy Carter. The debate (if we can even dignify it as such) over health care reform in Washington has ...

WiR's review of the president's health care address. Standing before a Congress suspicious of his proposals and addressing an public frustrated with and confused about his hitherto nonexistent plans for health care reform, President Obama laid out in clear terms his legislative wishlist while simultaneously taking to task the critics who ...

It was the best of times for conservatives, it was the worst of times for the Obama White House, it was the age of wisdom for critics of the president's agenda, it was the age of foolishness for young and dashing idealists who thought they knew what was best, it ...