Liz Elsewhere

In the aftermath of the 2006 election, congressional Democrats - led by Speaker Pelosi and the architect of the Democratic victory, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois - pledged to pursue a centrist agenda. As much of a masquerade as this may have been, it was noteworthy after a year in which Senator Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, was primaried for being too right-wing. The Democrats' commitment to something other than rampant liberalism reassured...

New Hampshire: Live Free or Die. It's the most libertarian state motto you can find, and, until November 2006, it represented the most libertarian Red state in the country. Boasting two Republican senators with top marks for fiscal conservatism (and who also voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment in 2006), two congressmen who received 82% ratings from libertarian-minded think-tank Americans for Tax Reform in 2006, and a consistently Republican-dominated state legislature, New...

Back in January, the Democrats announced that Denver would host their 2008 nominating convention, in a nod to the fiscally conservative, socially liberal voters who helped deliver 2006's Democratic victories in America's libertarian Mountain West - including a Senate seat in Montana, two House seats in Arizona, and one House seat in Colorado. But a little bit more than a month later, it looks like this may be all that Democrats plan to do to attract these voters to the party in...

Less than a year ago, Mitt Romney boasted of his "success - in solving the problem of underinsurance in Massachusetts through the adoption of his controversial, but groundbreaking RomneyCare program. Today, he's disclaiming responsibility for the initiative's failings. Is it another case of flip-flopping on the part of the Rockefeller Republican-cum-supposed conservative?
Back in April, 2006, an op-ed ran in the Wall Street Journal. It was written by then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt...

RomneyCare, Gov. Mitt Romney's "revolutionary" healthcare initiative, was introduced earlier this year to applause from the mainstream media, Senators Hillary Clinton and Teddy Kennedy, and Families USA - all wild at the idea of universal healthcare in Massachusetts. Such endorsements were not the best of signs for conservatives, but they were certainly eye-catching, especially with the hunt for future presidential talent on. And many Republicans were wondering whether RomneyCare was the...