As Jay notes below, Murtha was a close friend and mentor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and her effort to install him as her second-in-command counts as a rare misstep in her leadership of her caucus. So why such a close and unlikely bond between the gruff Marine and the San Francisco liberal?
Welcome, Joe. We’ve been here for a while. But you can now join Ed Rendell and Doris Kearns Goodwin. And, oh, yeah, … me. It started all the way back …here.
Greg Sargent picks this up: The GOP Senate leadership has privately settled on a strategy to derail health reform if Dems try to pass the Senate bill with a fix through reconciliation, aides say: Unleash an endless stream of amendments designed to stall for time and to force Dems to take untenable votes. The aide [...]
Norm Ornstein writes today in the Washington Post about the paradox of this extraordinarily unpopular Congress: …even with the wrench thrown in by Republican Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts, this Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society 89th Congress in 1965-66, and Obama already has [...]
may well be in the race for New Orleans coroner…
President Obama and Vice President Biden are courtside today. I hope they caught this only-in-DC scene, which comes to us via the Twitterfeed of CNN’s Sam Feist: From the latest White House Pool Report, here are some details of what the scene is like:
From our White House Photo Blog:
