Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer recently tweeted the fact that has defined life in the White House this morning. Like democracy activists in Cairo, White House staff are without access to non-classified emails. “Verizon is working to solve the problem,” writes Pfeiffer on Twitter, which is just about the only way the communications office now has [...]
After a week of dodging questions about why they thought the Hyde Amendment exceptions needed to be limited to victims of “forcible rape,” the GOP authors of H.R. 3 are dropping the word “forcible” from their bill. In an unrelated development, their wives and daughters have agreed to stop changing the locks at home.
The New York Times is reporting that Egyptian authorities have forced one of the country’s cellular providers to send out mass text messages in support of the Mubarak regime. The cellphone service provider Vodafone acknowledged that the government had invoked emergency powers to force it to send out text messages. Some of the messages appeared [...]
By a vote of 81-17, the Senate passed an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill Wednesday that, assuming the legislation goes through, would repeal a small but onerous tax reporting requirement from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (AKA ObamaCare). Back in September, Kate explained: The new Affordable Care Act [...]
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It’s been a disheartening week for supporters of Democratic health care reform. On Monday, a second federal judge ruled that their signature health reform law is unconstitutional. Democrats maintain that the Affordable Care Act – including its individual mandate – is perfectly legal. They point out that two other federal judges have agreed with them [...]
Yesterday I touched on one of the big questions swirling around the 2012 election and the future of the Republican Party generally–namely, what kind of GOP foreign policy does the Tea Party movement want to see? The answer has always been vague. We know that Ron and Rand Paul and a small handful of other [...]
