The Democratic National Committee, through the Organizing for America operation that it imported from the Obama presidential campaign, has put up a new website that attempts to translate some of the internet-fueled grassroots tactics of the 2008 campaign into a governing tool for the Obama presidency. In that toolbox: Everything from 21st century social networking [...]
Some old white guy, it seems. Susan Page tells us this in today’s USA Today: Who speaks for the GOP? The question flummoxes most Americans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, which is among the reasons for the party’s sagging state and uncertain direction. A 52% majority of those surveyed couldn’t come up with a name [...]
Senate Republicans are clearly not psyched about holding Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing the week of July 13. Senator Judiciary Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions: We need to examine the record of 3,500 probably more than 4,000 cases. In addition, she has given a lot of speeches and written law review articles and [...]
The Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee has officially filed legislative language for the bill that it expects to begin writing next week, so that it can meet a Senate rule that requires it to do so seven days in advance of markup. (I’d throw in a link here, but the one they included [...]
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy just announced on the Senate floor that Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor will receive her confirmation hearing before his committee on July 13.”It’s in line with past experience,” Leahy said. “There’s no reason to delay this well qualified nominee. She deserves an oppertunity to go before [...]
Our colleague Mark Thompson has this story on TIME.com about the Obama Administration’s turnaround.
From this morning’s Washington Journal, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on single payer (which he supports) and Max Baucus’ bipartisanship (not so much): [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/cspanPlayer.swf" fvars=" pid=286924-4 ; clipStart=1496.99 ; clipStop=1575.14 ; autoplay=0 " width="365" height="340" /] UPDATE: And for those of you who have been demanding one, there will actually, finally be a congressional hearing [...]
Polls in the race for the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Governor Tim Kaine opened at 6am this morning and somewhere in northern Virginia Terry McAuliffe was looking at the sky in lament. At exactly 6am in DC — about three miles away from Virginia’s blue-leaning northern suburbs — a violent thunderstorm rattled through. McAuliffe, [...]
With minutes to go before a 4 p.m. deadline today, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put a hold on the takeover by Fiat that Chryler needs to save it from collapse. The general expectation seems to be that the delay will be brief. Why does the Supreme Court need more time to consider it? At SCOTUS [...]
The only thing that Swampland commenters like to talk about nearly as much as politics is the state of the news business. So here’s something for you to chew on: Jim Poniewozik’s vision of a post-journalism world.
