Remember all those rumors that the New York Times had a “bombshell” story on New York Governor David Paterson? That one never went off, but this one just dropped:
Does this image from our White House Photo Blog look familiar?: Intentionally or not, White House photographer Pete Souza is evokes this iconic LIFE Magazine photo from 1962:
NPR’s Julie Rovner debunks Republican claims that this process has never before been used to make sweeping changes in health care law. Indeed, the COBRA law that allows those who lose their jobs to continue buying their employer’s coverage is actually an acronym for (*cough*) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (*cough*). Rovner tells [...]
In Politico, Carrie Budoff Brown reports signs of a potentially important development:
What was missing from yesterday’s White House health bill? Any new ideas that might win Republican support. That’s why I’ve been wondering if President Obama has been holding back, and might have something along these lines up his sleeve at Thursday’s health care summit. The obvious one is malpractice reform. It’s something that Obama has [...]
Could you please have a word with the Majority Leader of the United States Senate? more about "Paging Dr. Laura", posted with vodpod UPDATE: Politico notes that Reid has some backing in this point from a 2004 report prepared under a National Institute of Justice grant. Still, it seems like a pretty broad indictment of [...]
From our White House Photo Blog:
Governor, would you please have a word with Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall about these comments?: RICHMOND — State Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas says disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy. He made that statement Thursday at a press conference to oppose state funding for Planned Parenthood. “The number [...]
This week, in partnership with CNN, we at TIME are beginning a series of reports on “Broken Government.” It will look at the reasons that it has become so difficult to get anything done in Washington, and some ways we might fix the problem. Regular readers of Swampland probably have already guessed what solution I’ve [...]
