From this morning’s Washington Journal. If only it were REALLY like this:
It isn’t over in Iran. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani spoke at Friday prayers today and while he didn’t condemn the results of the election, he certainly didn’t wave the white flag either: “Doubt has been created,” Mr. Rafsanjani said. “There are two currents. One doesn’t have any doubt and is moving ahead with their job. [...]
For the past few years, I’ve been pushing Senator Ron Wyden’s Free Choice Act as the best way to reform the health care system. Ezra Klein, now of the Washington Post and still no relation of mine (except friend), feels the same way and explains the bill here. This is a solution that promises universal [...]
A final sketch drawn from dispatches from TIME’s Sophia Yan: Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, pretty much summed up the week’s confirmation hearings Thursday morning when he said the he could not envision filibustering Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, nor any of his colleagues doing so. The [...]
Read this quote, from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf, testifying before the Senate Budget Committee. You are going to hear it repeated often by opponents of the health reform bills that have been unveiled thus far.:
A story not to miss today, by my former colleague Mark Benjamin at Salon, the first in a series on the national cemetery. A small sampling: [I]n a relatively remote area of the cemetery, where 600 service members from Iraq and Afghanistan are laid to rest, personal mementos placed on graves are left out to [...]
Gallup has new numbers out today, testing the 2012 GOP waters. Polls this early in an election cycle are in no way predictive of eventual results, but they are telling for other reasons. At the very least, we now know that Sarah Palin’s up-and-quit spectacle of the last couple weeks has not hurt her much [...]
The first day started off okay. After that, things went downhill. And a couple of times (ahem, Ricky Ricardo?) crossed the line. That’s the impression I came away with after speaking to Latino groups about Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings. Here’s a webstory on the perils this presents to the G.O.P.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, borrowing a tactic from the health care wars of 15 years ago, has put together an arresting graphic “to expose the truth about the Democrats’ health care plan to the American people.” Over at TNR, Jon Cohn has responded with one that looks at how things work now. I’m posting [...]
A week after visiting Russia, I am still haunted by the sort of subdermal creepiness of the place. I’m not sure what it was exactly–the Russian security man who rode in our press van to spy on our conversations, the total disinterest people on the street showed for the Presidential motorcade, the educated assumption of [...]
