“We feel like we’ve been pregnant for 17 months, let’s get on with it already.” Those were the words of Democrat Rep. Louise Slaughter, chairwoman of the House Rules Committee, on Saturday, as she moved health reform one step closer to the finish line. Well put. After all the hearings and debates and town halls; [...]
We knew president Obama would give a speech today to House Democrats. We didn’t know it would be this good of a speech. The video below is just the last ten minutes of an address that lasted about 30 minutes. (You can view the whole thing here.) I suggest you start watching at 2 minutes. [...]
From the White House Flickr feed: President Barack Obama talks to a Member of Congress while en route to George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., to deliver remarks on health insurance reform, March 19, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
A story from me today about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s whip style as we head into the final sprint on health care.
Karl Rove on the Medicare Part D vote: The House finally voted between 3 am and 5:55 am on the morning of November 22 [2003]. The tally at first stalled out at 216 to 218 against us. House leaders kept the vote open and , using the kind of horse-trading that has always been part [...]
To the Iranian readers of this blog–and I know you’re out there–may the new year be much, much better than the last. You should always know that we Americans are aware that the gulf between the decency, humor and sophistication of the Iranian people and its brutal government is enormous–the greatest mismatch of government and [...]
If there is a single individual in Afghanistan who symbolizes the troubles we face in attempting to quiet the Taliban rebellion, it’s not Hamid Karzai–the ineffective president–or Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, it’s the other Karzai, Ahmed Wali, the crook who controls Kandahar, as my esteemed colleague Tim McGirk writes in this report. The amazing [...]
A funny thing happened on the way to the congressional switchboard earlier this week. On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners to call Congress and tell them to vote no on health care reform. That’s no small thing. With his millions of fans, this is the kind of advice that could crash the congressional phone [...]
From our White House Photo Blog.
