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Senate Health Care Hold Outs On ‘A Streetcar Named Opportunism’

Senate Health Care Hold Outs On 'A Streetcar Named Opportunism'

Get it? Because her name is Blanche. Washington Post columnist and Power Grid #3 Dana Milbank delivers an impassioned Sunday column today, using a literary allusion and extended metaphor to describe the dealmaking that occurred yesterday in the Senate. It's all very Southern -- straight out of a Tennessee Williams play, he contends in "Sweeteners for the South." And it may sound like your typical gimmicky op-ed fare, but it works this time. I mean, her name is Blanche. (more...)



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