links for 2010-05-27

Jonathan Cohn on Health Care

JC: "I'm skeptical that, with a different set of decisions, the Democrats could have produced a substantially better law. Some of this is because of things I learned, or at least came to appreciate, only recently... the institutional constraints on legislation—the technical challenges of reconciliation, the accounting standards of the CBO, the nature of campaign finance—make the enactment of sweeping legislation nightmarishly...