The Supreme Court’s Healthcare Decision Will Hurt Democrats in the Fall
The Democrats have probably blown their opportunity to reform healthcare in a bipartisan fashion.
Michael Busler
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Now suppose the Republicans not only hold their majority in the Senate but increase it. That means the GOP would be in complete control of writing any new health care law.
The Democrats will have missed their opportunity to devise a bipartisan bill. It often appears that President Trump has the mind of a Republican but the heart of a Democrat. As such, the Democrats in the House could have come to an agreement with the GOP-controlled Senate and Trump likely would have signed a compromise bill.
Now that they have raked the president over the coals, he will be in little mood to compromise. And that’s a big problem for the Democrats, not only for the election but in terms of leading the country after the election, especially when it comes to solving the healthcare mess. It’s too bad.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/28/palestinians-must-wake-up-to-new-reality-in-mideast/
Palestinians must wake up to new reality in Mideast
By John Podhoretz
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no Palestinians and no Israelis will be uprooted from their homes.
That sentence is a defining truth. It is what peace would truly mean.
If the Palestinian radicals — the sort who have made peace with Israel impossible for more than seven decades — want to know whom to blame for a plan they deem an infamy, the actual answer is simple: Iran.
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The Saudis, long thought to be Israel’s most dangerous geostrategic foe, suddenly discovered they had common ground with the Jewish state.
This new connection, navigated mostly in secret, meant that the importance of the Palestinian cause to Arab countries other than Iran began to recede rapidly.