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The GOP vs. the Fed

Which arm of government is most deplored by today’s Republican Party? It might be the allegedly jobs-killing Environmental Protection Agency. Or perhaps it’s the Health and Human Services Department, now tyrannically implementing Obamacare. But moving closer to the top of this list every day is an unlikely suspect: The Federal Reserve.

1,000 Words: Home Alone Edition

H/T to Christopher Roughton, who alerted me (via Twitter) to this AP Photo. It shows House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers holding a Capitol Hill news conference today on health care legislation: Roughton’s suggested caption: Bueller? Anyone? Bueller?

In the Arena

Home Again

…after 10 days in the Middle East and watching the Sunday morning talk shows. A few thoughts: –It certainly was fun watching Governors Schwarzenegger and Rendell carve into pieces the puerile speeches delivered at the CPAC convention. The bites from Mitt Romney–who said not one net new private sector job had been created by the [...]

Health Care Summit Details Released – Do the Dems Have a Deal Already?

The White House just released details for the Feb. 25 bipartisan health care summit President Obama called for. (h/t Greg Sargent) Here are the invitees and here is a letter about the format, in which Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says that before the summit, “we will post online the text of a [...]