She’s working on beating the opposition at their own game : The House health care bill is getting cheaper, but Democrats aren’t boasting just yet. Because when they ultimately break silence the hope is to present conservative Democrats in both chambers with a bill that will walk the walk of fiscal responsibility–including a public option, which is projected to save the government billions. As always, the legislative process is unpredictable, and the Senate is operating in isolation fro

Olympia Snowe was right on two fronts yesterday. The Maine Republican was smart to back the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill. And she was correct to remind Democrats she may not vote for it on the Senate floor. First, why she was right to back it. . --William McKenzie/Editorial Columnist

One of today’s big political stories is Senator Olympia Snowe going against her party and casting the lone Republican vote that enabled the Senate Finance Committee to pass a $829 billion health care bill. The news sparked an instantaneous reaction on the social web, where tweets about the bill and Snowe dominated Twitter’s trending topics earlier this afternoon. On one end, people were happy that the bill is starting to make progress, on the other, Republicans were furious that Snowe deser

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Rep. John Shadegg, (R-AZ), is one of the most reliable fiscal conservatives in DC. That’s why it pains me to disagree slightly with his post about the CBO . Here’s what he said that I object to: Could you make your family budget look good in a ten-year analysis if you counted ten years of income but only seven of expenditures? That’s what the Congressional Budget Office did in their report on Senator Max Baucus’s health care bill. Their subpar accounting includes revenue from tax incre