Looks like the Senate got sick of waiting for the House to get its act together. From Harry Reid’s office: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tonight announced a unanimous consent agreement to move forward on legislation to stabilize the economy, provide middle class tax relief, create jobs, and invest in alternative energy. Tomorrow evening, the [...]
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: I’d missed this, but apparently Sarah Palin has taken to joking on the campaign trail that she’s been listening to Joe Biden’s speeches since she was a second-grader. The point, according to what she tells Katie Couric in a segment to air tonight, is to highlight the choice voters have in [...]
I know I’m late getting to this: The Palin aide, after first noting how “infuriating” it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions. After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases. There [...]
As is often the case in situations like these, I’m finding that the lobbyists I talk to have a far keener understanding of the state of play of this financial bailout package than anyone else at the moment. The trade associations, in particular, are working this one very hard, as their members are saying they [...]
If I were on the Obama campaign, I’d be more concerned about the sensitivities of our seasoned citizens voters if I didn’t hear so many jokes about McCain’s age from, you know, McCain.
First there were hundreds of calls. Now sources tell me that the House website has been crashing since yesterday afternoon as groups from the left and right have launched “write your rep” campaigns opposing the bill while business groups have started similar pushes to support the measure. Just in case there’s a member left with [...]
The McCain campaign has released a 60-second ad that uses Bill Clinton’s words to pin the blame for the mortgage crisis on Democrats. The link to Obama is tenuous — and nowhere does the ad acknowledge the fact that Fannie and Freddie were not the primary causes of the broader crisis — but it could [...]
TIME’s James Poniewozik takes apart the latest act of journalism that CBS News’s Katie Couric has committed on Sarah Palin. This time, McCain tagged along, and the results were only a little bit better. An excerpt: Let’s be fair: John McCain and Sarah Palin weren’t claiming that a question from a voter was “gotcha journalism.” [...]
Some weeks back, Barack Obama’s communications chief Robert Gibbs joked without any prompting that John McCain might have “misplaced the keys” to his houses. Hardy Har Har. This morning on MSNBC, Gibbs returned to the make-fun-of-the-elderly joke well. “Just yesterday, John McCain said we shouldn’t fix blame. He took a breath and then fixed blame. [...]
Here’s what happened and the latest on the talks, or rather lack thereof. I’m starting to feel like we’re in a Royal Bank of Scotland commercial, only there’s no one who actually saves the day. And, of course, RBS’s plate is full right now.
