2 April 2025
Bill Scher (Washington Monthly) and Matt K. Lewis (The Daily Beast, MattLewis.org)
On The DMZ, Matt says that the Obamacare website failures give the GOP a chance to make a larger argument about big government. Bill and Matt take different sides in the debate between Joan Walsh and Ezra Klein over how liberal pundits should react to healthcare.gov’s glitches. Matt wants conservatives to realize that a Reagan-like savior will be not coming to rescue the movement. Will Republicans leave Reagan nostalgia behind in 2016? They ponder whether immigration reform is coming back from the dead. Plus: The meaning of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s embrace of Medicaid expansion.
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Bill Scher
Matt K. Lewis
Bill’s piece, “5 other botched rollouts of government programs”
Patrick Ruffini on healthcare.gov
Joan Walsh’s piece, “Liberal pundit fail”
David Auerbach at Slate on coding
Brian Beutler’s reply to Walsh
Matt’s piece, “The second coming of Reagan isn’t going to save the GOP”
Peter Beinart on the political leanings of Millennials
Bill on immigration reform
Matt on the GOP losing young evangelicals
WSJ on the Southern Baptist Convention
Jill Lawrence on John Kasich
The DMZ | Oct 24, 2013 | Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
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