Harry Reid: Trigger Happy

According to the Las Vegas Sun, the Senate Majority Leader thinks putting a trigger on the public option is “a pretty doggone good idea“:

The Week That Was

Really, a week that brought us a lip-syncing, booty-shaking Tom Delay in rhinestones can’t be all bad. Paul Slansky, in an email, sums it up this way: Wolf Blitzer turns out to be as dumb as you always suspected, John Edwards is even more of a beast than you thought, and did you hear the [...]

Exclusive TIME interview with Ahmadinejad

Joe will no doubt have much more to tell us about TIME’s interview with an unapologetic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this morning. But for the moment, you can watch the Iranian president answer a few questions from TIME head honcho Rick Stengel about news of an existing nuclear facility.

Carly Fiorina Talks About Her Battle With Cancer

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is thinking about running for the GOP nomination against California Senator Barbara Boxer next year. Earlier this week, she put up a campaign website that got what could charitably be described as unenthusiastic reviews. “A little weird,” wrote Holly Bailey of Newsweek. CNN added that even her fellow Republicans are [...]

SNL Gives Us A Thursday Night Glenn Beck Taste

Oh, how we missed you this summer. . . more about “SNL Does Glenn Beck, David Patterson“, posted with vodpod

No Public Option Debate Until Tuesday

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus just opened today’s health reform bill markup by saying amendments related to a public option will not be introduced and debated until Tuesday. He said intends to close the hearing around noon today and won’t reconvene the markup until Tuesday. Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller and Chuck Schumer had said [...]

British Insecurity Wire: Gordon Brown Gets His Bilat!

British PM Gordon Brown talks with President Obama all the time. But, if you believe the British press, and that is a big if, he really wanted to “talk” with President Obama this week, as in a formal, sit-down, diplomatic, bilateral talk. As the Guardian reported Thursday: Gordon Brown lurched from being hailed as a [...]

Live From The Red Carpet: Barack And Michelle Obama

The New York Times’ Helene Cooper filed this pool report Thursday night about the reception line at the G20 dinner in Pittsburgh. It counts among the best of the year. Keep reading through the jump to find out which wife South African President Jacob Zuma brought (the youngest, of course), how many inches the Australian [...]

Public Option on Deck for Friday

Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller and Chuck Schumer said Thursday evening that they plan to turn debate on the Senate Finance Committee toward a government-run public option on Friday. No public option is included in Chairman Max Baucus’s current health care reform bill and none is expected one to be added, simply because there are not [...]

Barack Obama’s Polls: A Little Down But Nowhere Near Out

Obama is down from where he once was in polling. Independents surveyed in the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll say they disapprove of his job performance by a margin of 46 to 41 percent, a increase in bad feelings from July.  But the big takeaway I see in the poll is that all this doom [...]