Pretty Cool

The Sunlight Foundation is streaming this health care summit. Every time someone speaks, Sunlight shows their top donors. Check it out here.

The Process! The Process!

It’s not a good sign that, less than an hour into this health care summit, they are already arguing about process–and, specifically, the use of reconciliation to pass this bill on a majority vote in the Senate, rather than the 60 votes that it would take to stop a filibuster. Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered what, [...]

Health Care Summit Seating Chart

The White House just put this out. See any potential for fist fights breaking out?

President Obama’s Opening Statement – UPDATE

President Obama’s opening statement at the health care summit focused on four major things: The economy and deficits and how the unsustainable health care system is a drag on both. Real life stories from people who write the President letters about their problems with insurance companies. The President also talked about Malia’s asthma, Sasha’s bouts [...]

Polling Oracle: What Americans Want On Health Care Reform

Josh Lyman: Numbers don’t lie. Joey Lucas: They lie all the time. They lie when 72% of Americans say they’re tired of a sex scandal while all the while newspaper circulation goes through the roof for anyone featuring the story. If you polled 100 Donnas and asked them if they think we should go out, [...]

Game on

The health care summit room at Blair House is starting to fill up. Tune in to CSPAN-3 or cspan.org to watch today. Karen and I will be watching and blogging for the next six hours.

Morning Must Reads

–Robert Gibbs insists today’s health care summit won’t be “kabuki theater.” Biden goes off message and says it might. –Mike Allen has an excerpt of Pelosi’s opening remarks. –Mark Blumenthal reminds us that not too many people actually watch these things. –It looks like Michael Bennet’s public option letter may have panned out for him. [...]

Health Care Summit: A Viewer’s Guide

The White House health care summit is set to begin at 10 a.m. EST today at Blair House. Kate Pickert and I will be watching throughout the six hours, and will be posting developments as we see them. Please join us here in Swampland throughout the day, and let us know what you think of [...]

The NYT Drops Its Bombshell on Paterson

Remember all those rumors that the New York Times had a “bombshell” story on New York Governor David Paterson? That one never went off, but this one just dropped:

Re: Is Abortion Still a Problem for Health Reform?

One point that didn’t get emphasized as much as I would have preferred in the Time.com piece on abortion and health reform: It’s far from clear that most of the pro-life Democrats who voted for the Stupak amendment last fall will be satisfied with the less stringent language in the Senate version. I still don’t [...]