Can you feel the excitement in the air? Cable news can. There was a flurry of health care-related news today, most of it summit specific. For starters, this morning, the White House specifically invited Olympia Snowe to the event. (She is the only Senate Republican to have cast a vote in favor of health reform [...]
The President’s proposal has, by virtue of not altering the Senate language on abortion coverage, opted for Ben Nelson’s formulation rather than Bart Stupak’s stricter standard. The Stupak amendment, you’ll remember, was deemed necessary back in November to break the logjam in the House and get enough pro-life Democratic votes to pass health reform. So [...]
This round of jockeying seems to have concluded – we now know who’s scheduled to appear at tomorrow’s health care meeting. House Minority Leader John Boehner just announced the Republican members he’ll be bringing. For those of you keeping track, here’s the full list of who’s expected to attend:
As Karen and Michael noted we all did stories for the Broken Government project with our sister company CNN. Mine was on term limits (thank you deconstructiva for reminding me to post). Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they aren’t likely to happen any time soon as, thanks to a 1995 Supreme Court ruling, it’ll take [...]
According to Politico’s Glenn Thrush, Republicans haven’t finish their RSVPs to tomorrow’s health care meeting because they were hoping President Obama would open the forum to governors.
Sad/Wonderful/Inevitable truth: It is happening again. Mike Allen gets to the bottom of some rumors that have been floating around in recent days, tid bits from ongoing discussions that are not yet finalized: Barack Obama is preparing to relaunch his campaign machine in early 2011, when Republicans like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty are likely [...]
You’ve got to love it. Scott Brown casts a sane and completely justifiable vote for a jobs bill that is essentially a tax cut for small businesses and Glenn Beck attacks him as…a…progressive. (In Beck’s lunatic lexicon, a progressive is a slow-motion communist.) So, the question arises: How can we purge the Senate of this [...]
The Senate just passed Harry Reid’s jobs bill 70-28. Reid plans on repeating this strategy over and over and over again till Election Day. Okay, maybe not Election Day – but definitely until Easter recess.
Does this image from our White House Photo Blog look familiar?: Intentionally or not, White House photographer Pete Souza is evokes this iconic LIFE Magazine photo from 1962:
