Republicans have been talking ad nauseam about how just plain wrong it is for Democrats to consider passing healthcare reform through the reconciliation process.
This may not be quite as ridiculously dishonest as the death panels nonsense, but it’s really not a whole lot better. And it’s much easier to ridicule.
Democrats don’t need to pass [...]
For a blogger who has won a Polk Award, Josh Marshall sure can be embarrassingly naive at times. Take this post:
You’ve got several members of the GOP Congressional leadership today saying that they believe the Health Care Reform bill is actually unconstitutional: Grassley, Boehner and others.
Not only is the idea preposterous in itself. But [...]
“It’s Time to Return to the 50 State Strategy” by John Morgan
(reprinted in full by permission, emphasis added)
Barack Obama campaigned for President on the message of Change. Many changes were necessary amidst the failed policies of the Bush White House. The country was going in the wrong direction and we were in a major economic [...]
Obama may compromise on consumer agency to pass financial regulation – WaPo (2/25/10):
The Obama administration is no longer insisting on the creation of a stand-alone consumer protection agency as a central element of the plan to remake regulation of the financial system.
In hopes of quick congressional approval of a reform bill, White House officials are [...]
Since President Obama’s election, Senate Republicans have demonstrated an almost pathological obstructionism. They have pretty much obstructed anything and everything, including proposals they had themselves proposed or championed or supported in the past.
Now we find that many of them don’t even have the courage of their own obstructionism.
When the weak-and-watery [...]
Obama haz dem:
A new CNN poll finds that Americans think both Democrats and Republicans are failing to act in a bipartisan manner — and that the Democrats should be the first ones to give up some of their proposals.
[...]
The next one: “Many people say that bipartisan cooperation will only occur if one party takes the [...]
Toomey Holds Big Leads in Pennsylvania:
A new Franklin & Marshall poll in Pennsylvania finds Pat Toomey (R) leading both Sen. Arlen Specter (D) and Rep. Joe Sestak (D) by double-digits in general election match ups.
Toomey leads Specter, 44% to 34%, and tops Sestak, 38% to 20%.
In the Democratic primary, Specter leads Sestak, 33% to 16%, [...]
It’s a privilege to be in a position where you can conspire to destroy evidence in order to preserve the ugly secrets of the torture state. A proud privilege. A privilege that Senator Pat Roberts, who used to be chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee back when Bush was adding phrases like [...]
Carrie Johnson and Spencer S. Hsu had a Washington Post story yesterday about Najibullah Zazi’s guilty plea. A very sloppily written story.
At the very least, this paragraph offends the intelligence of its readers. It could even be said to constitute a dishonest twisting of logic:
Law enforcement sources, speaking on the condition of [...]
Here’s (part of) a ThinkProgress headline: “Boehner now complains that Obama’s is too short“.
1115, she say, that if Obama’s is too short, then Boehner’s is totally non-existent.
(Funnily enough, that’s also true of their healthcare plans.)
