Grijalva Hits Baucus and Obama, Remains Firm on Public Option – TPMDC (9/28/09):
In a new op-ed, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus blasts the proposal written by Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) saying it’s “all about the insurance industry’s bottom line: no teeth in enforcements and regulations, endless patent hoarding for the [...]
At some point, surely even Republicans have to start getting embarrassed by their own nonsense? Take Senator Orrin Hatch. This is what went down on MSNBC’s Hardball yesterday:
The host asked whether there is any possible scenario in which the Republican senator would support health care reform. Hatch said it’s possible. Matthews added, [...]
Don’t look now, but it looks like the controversy over Sarah Palin’s last pregnancy (as in “Was she really pregnant?”, “Is Trig really her baby?”) is about to boil over (h/t Shaun Mullen at Kiko’s House).
It’s not going to help that Palin had steadfastly refuse to release her medical records during the last presidential election, [...]
Perhaps you too have been confused by how Obama’s thoughtful critics on the right (and not just the extreme right, either) can accuse him simultaneously of being a Nazi and a Communist?
The brilliant and thoughtful conservative speaker Kitty Werthmann appeared at the How To Take Back America Conference over the weekend, evidently just to [...]
Over the weekend, Mike Huckabee seems to have engaged in an early audition for the post of Ambassador to the U.N. under the next Republican president:
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.), speaking to a very friendly dinner crowd at the “How To Take Back America” conference, said that he’d “nearly had an Elvis moment” watching this [...]
Digby:
Does anyone else find it odd that the Obama administration consistently uses the most hardball, down and dirty, tough guy tactics when it comes to Democratic Party electoral politics but pleads that it is required to observe every arcane, institutional ritual when it comes to legislation?
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It’s this willingness to play the hardest hardball when it [...]
How insane is this? Republican Senator John Ensign believes (or pretends to) that if you conscientiously believe that a statutory requirement is unconstitutional, you should have the right to refuse to comply, and not be subject to “fines or the interpretation of a judge, potentially, all the way up to imprisonment”:
ENSIGN: We’ve allowed exceptions [...]
Yesterday, Senator John Rockefeller gave himself the pleasure of sticking it to Senator John Cornyn as very few Senators have had it stuck to them (nullus) in the Senate before. This was Senator Rockefeller’s response to an amendment offered by Senator Cornyn (which sought to add caveats to the employer mandate):
ROCKEFELLER: This is a [...]
I haven’t been linking any of my pictures here recently, but it’s a slow day, so you can check out my Seahawks at 49ers gallery from last Sunday here:
(I put selected pictures on Flickr if you’re interested.)
If he finds out about this poll, “New York State of Mind” could end up meaning 20 million new drug addicts:
As the White House urges New York Gov. David Paterson (D) not to run for office next year, a new Marist Poll finds that 62% of New York voters think the Obama Administration is wrong [...]
