Republicans

Those of you betting that "Michele Bachmann's national influence is over, post-election:" you guys scored big today.

John Boehner has presented his fiscal cliff proposal. Democrats are mocking it. Obama has called it "out of balance."

Some details of the just completed election, both here in Colorado and in other swing states, have gotten lost among the cheers of a progressive mandate, the whines of Republican obstructionists, and the phony cries of crisis over the contrived "fiscal cliff".

The Contributor's Editor-In-Chief, Tina Dupuy, joins Errol Louis of NY1 on Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer to discuss where the GOP goes next.

Until now, the Medicaid debate has been about budgets and states' rights. But a statistical study by Harvard researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine found a 6 percent drop in the adult death rate in Arizona, Maine and New York, three states that have recently expanded coverage for low-income residents along the general lines of the federal health care law.