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Morning Must Reads: About That “Senator Program”

By Adam Sorensen | @adamsorensen | April 1, 2010 | +

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Official White House photo by Pete Souza

–John Broder and Clifford Krauss, among others, scratch their heads over offshore drilling.

–Tom Schaller says everybody’s a bit right.

–China signals willingness to play ball on Iran sanctions.

–Sino-American relations warm.

–The RNC gets a potential rival.

–The spending scrutiny continues.

–The Family Research Council takes flight.

–Bill Halter has raised $2 million in one month, a bad sign for Blanche Lincoln.

–Matt Lewis says Rick Santorum may benefit from low expectations. The expectations are low.

–How close did we come to talking about PawlentyCare?

–Corker breaks from the script.

–Geithner sharpens his political tongue. He may be an effective surrogate yet.

–He’s fighting to keep specific language on leverage constraints out of financial reform. The White House looks Greek.

–Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia is very worried about this “Guam” place capsizing.

–And in honor of today’s date: U.S. Government To Save Billions By Cutting Wasteful Senator Program.

What did I miss?

Related Topics: 2012 Election, Barack Obama, Congress, Democratic Party, Health Care, Miscellany

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  • sacredh

    “–The Family Research Council takes flight.”

    Don’t give money to the RNC-Tony Perkins.
    OK, I won’t.

  • sacredh

    “–Geithner sharpens his political tongue. He my be an effective surrogate yet.”

    Adam, you might want to change my to may. I’m done with being a spelling Nazi.

  • sacredh

    “What did I miss?”

    Well, it is April Fool’s Day. Have you nailed anybody yet? I’m about 10 for 12.

  • Paul-no not that one

    “How close did we come to talking about PawlentyCare?”
    .
    The more you know the less you’ll like.
    .
    Timmy Cul-de-sac is NOT going to like the attention he gets from his likely run for the republican nomination.

  • FlownOver

    Ist dieses nicht ein Rechtschreibfehler?
    .
    Ja, ist dieses ein Rechtschreibfehler.

  • nflfoghorn

    Some of Fla AG McCollum’s motivation for wasting taxpayer’s time and money–ER, I mean challenging the health care law:
    .
    http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/why-florida-sued-washington-over-health-care-law/1084238

  • Ivy_B

    WDIM?

    Glenn Greenwald’s story of how Mike McConnell used his government position before and after, for personal gain. It is a shocking story.

    Bush’s DNI, McConnell dramatically expanded the extent to which intelligence functions were outsourced to the same private industry that he long represented. Worse, he became the leading spokesman for demanding full immunity for lawbreaking telecoms for their participation in Bush’s illegal NSA programs — in other words, he exploited “national security” claims and his position as DNI to win the dismissal of lawsuits against the very lawbreaking industry he represented as INSA Chairman, including, almost certainly, Booz Allen itself. Having exploited his position as DNI to lavishly reward and protect the private intelligence industry, he then returns to its loving arms to receive from them lavish personal rewards of his own.

    http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/29/mcconnell/index.html

  • Ivy_B

    And a Repub consultant tells us that Rick Santorum is a viable Presidential candidate – what a surprise! Only because he sounds slightly saner than the rest of the field. Of course, he does admit that Santorum would likely lost his former home state.

    I say, give us Man on Dog if you want a guaranteed second term for Obama.

  • grape_crush

    What did I miss?

    Guess what big GOP names attended the RNC’s Voyeur club event?

    ħttṗ://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/04/01/2010/guess_who_came_to_RNCs_dinner.html

  • kbanginmotown

    “Ja, ist dieses ein Rechtschreibfehler.”
    .
    Nein, dieses ist ein Grammatikfehler.

  • Ivy_B

    So grape, you got my inner gossip monger.

  • grape_crush

    It’s gossipy, yes, but if even half of it’s true…

  • Ivy_B

    Opportunities galore for many Dems.

  • newfreedomblog

    What did I miss?
    .
    Perhaps this?
    .
    http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/climate_change_happening_before_your_eyes
    .
    And to imagine it is not an April Fool’s joke either.
    .
    Enjoy all my liberal and global warming fanatics!!

  • newfreedomblog

    More “What did I miss”?
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    As Obama’s polls plummet, no one is sure where it will end. Could he become the most un-popular President ever?
    .
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-31-poll_N.htm
    .
    Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are rejoicing. At least they believe the nursery rhyme “Rub-dub a dub, three in the tub are better than 2″.

  • shepherdwong

    “Could he become the most un-popular President ever?”
    .
    Considering the poll numbers of his immediate predecessor, that seems…unlikely:
    .
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/16/opinion/polls/main4728399.shtml
    .
    Also, according to the poll, he’s the most popular leader in Washington. That may not be saying much these days but against the Republicans’ traitorous insanity, it should be good enough for the foreseeable future.

  • mortalfool

    Goodness. The Onion goes even further than my own long-running cost-cutting measure, which is to cut the number of senators to one per state. Why on earth do we need two? Let’s get this ball rolling and pass a constitutional amendment to move to one — or none — per state. Who do we see for constitutional amendments? Uh oh.

  • http://erieangel.wordpress.com erieangel

    I wish this wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. The Senate has become a do-nothing body of greed and ambition. Get rid of it, I say. Get rid of it.

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