In case you haven’t already read enough about this.
I wrote a short piece for the new print mag about the stars aligning to give Obama a real shot at getting health care reform through Congress.
There are reports this afternoon that an agreement has been reached to bailout the auto industry. Even if this is true – that leaders in both parties have signed on – I’m told a vote would be very unlikely before Thanksgiving since there’s bound to be GOP senators that, barring an en masse drastic change [...]
Barack Obama got by during the campaign on 45-minute workouts, six days a week, alternating cardio and weights. “There’s always a trade-off between sleep and working out,” he told Men’s Health Magazine for its November issue. And there was never enough time. Obama confessed he would rather hit the gym for 90 minutes a day. [...]
1. The George W. Bush/Dick Cheney Justice department is apparently protecting civil liberties against the attempts to relax wiretap standards by Michael Bloomberg’s police department. “The disagreement, in which the Bush Justice Department has taken a more cautious approach than police officials, is something of an unexpected twist for an administration that has more often [...]
Seems my sources this ayem were incorrect. Politico reports that Henry Waxman has won the Energy Committee gavel, unseating John Dingell from the perch he has held since 1981. Update: The vote was 137-122 by secret ballot. Edolphus Towns now succeeds Waxman at the helm of the Oversight Committee. All in all it has been [...]
A journalist known here as Mr. Swamp has this in today’s LA Times: Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama’s national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues. The activists are uneasy not [...]
The smackdown between two House chairmen for the Energy Committee gavel will be decided today. While Waxman won the first round, Dem sources tell me Dingell always expected to lose the committee vote and is confident he will win a referendum of the full caucus. Not only does he have the endorsement of Barney Frank, [...]
Massimo Calabresi and I have this story in the next issue of dead-tree TIME.
An update on my post: John Boehner won reelection as House minority leader with Eric Cantor taking the No. 2 spot and the new chairman of the GOP conference will be Mike Pence. Pete Sessions won the chairmanship of the NRSC NRCC after incumbent Tom Cole withdrew his candidacy. I sat down with Boehner this [...]
