C-SPAN junkies rejoice — the indispensable cable chroniclers have put just about every minute they’ve ever recorded online with full search functionality. That’s 160,000+ hours going back more than 20 years! Though it will surely be a useful tool for studying history and exposing hypocrisy, we get the added bonus of being able to dig [...]
The neoconservatives who worship General David Petraeus may not be too pleased with this–a briefing Petraeus prepared for his boss, Admiral Mike Mullen, on the regional problems being raised by Israel’s instransigence on the settlements issue. If Israel were taking a moral position that upset the regional Arabs, like defending its right to exist (a [...]
The Associated Press tells us: PHOENIX — John McCain and Sarah Palin are scheduled to campaign together in Arizona next week for the first time since they conceded the presidential election in Phoenix in 2008. Palin and McCain will be at a rally and picnic in Tucson on March 26, followed the next day by [...]
The America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has done a very unwise thing: It has issued a statement criticizing the Obama Administration, rather than Israel, for its reaction to the Netanyahu government’s recent announcement of more illegal settlement blocks in East Jerusalem–an announcement that was made during Vice President Joe Biden’s visit last week, an act [...]
Jay, I’m a bit mystified by this assertion from former Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier in your post: Dreier, though, defended his record saying there’s a big difference between self-executing amendments and self-enacting large pieces of legislation. As I noted earlier, when the Republicans were running the House, Dreier himself was pretty aggressive with self-executing [...]
Michael noted earlier that the money is flowing for pro and anti-reform TV ads this week. One more was just released – this time from Moveon.org. The ad flashes pictures of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. while a voiceover says voting for health care reform amounts to being “on the right side of [...]
As part of her long awaited scorned-mistress-finally-speaks moment, Rielle Hunter takes off her pants for GQ. Then she poses–pantless, mind you–with stuffed animals in an article describing the total legitimacy of her love for John Edwards. Not. A. Joke. Now we get to guess what will happen next in this public farce of a political [...]
Nope, you won’t see a public option in the legislation that is expected to come to a vote in the House later this week. But if it passes, we may well see a public option established in some–maybe many–states. As Kate and I have written before, if this bill becomes law, states will be on [...]
