Well, it appears as though we will have a healthcare reform bill by Christmas no thanks to Republicans. Healthcare reform entered the inevitability stage in the Senate during the wee hours of Monday morning as Democrats came together on a party-line vote to all but lock in passage of the legislation on Christmas Eve. Though [...]

It’s time for your weekly check-in from our nation’s capital with A View from the Hill with KTVA’s Matt Felling, or as I like to call it here, “Hey! I can see Washington D.C. from my house!” Kudos to Matt Felling for putting this weekly segment together. Last week we heard from Lisa Murkowski, so [...]

~~~Mark Begich at his June Anchorage Town Hall Meeting on health care, calling on a constituent who actually raised her hand to speak.  Ah, those were the days. I’m going to confess right now, that after 2/3 of a term of Gov. Sarah Palin, and a vice presidential run, and all the Twittering Facebooking adventures of [...]