As Crowley writes today on Time.com, health care is not dominating either party’s message heading into the midterms. But that doesn’t mean no one is talking about it. As Kate reports, Democrats are experimenting with novel ways of selling a skeptical electorate on the merits of the new law. Almost assuredly doomed Arkansas Senator …
–Israelis and Palestinians will talk.
–Joe Donnelly puts Nancy Pelosi in another ad.
–The DNC still puts W. in its ads.
–Jeb thinks that’s lame.
–Charlie Cook says the House will flip.
–Bill Clinton will have to save ’em all.
–Health care messaging gets retooled. (Here’s why.)
–Maes won’t go.
–The …
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–Our colleague Bobby Ghosh explores Islamophobia in America for this week’s newsstand edition of TIME. A taste:
But to be a Muslim in America now is to endure slings and arrows against your faith — not just in the schoolyard and the office but also outside your place of worship and in the public
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–Prosecutors want another crack at Blago. They have until September 7 to file for a re-trial.
–Mitt Romney continues to stay out of the daily fray, throwing most of his strategic punches through op-eds. His offering in today’s BostonGlobe: Obama is anti-business.
–Mike Huckabee goes for a more …
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–The Obama administration is hosting a conference today on “the future of housing finance” The main issue: Figuring out what on earth to do with budget-busting mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Republicans want to shut them down, Democrats point out that for now, there is basically no mortgage …
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Rick Scott, a Republican candidate for governor in Florida, goes to town on Obama and Park51/Cordoba House in a new TV spot released today. It seems like many Republicans (and certainly Scott) see the president’s position as a boon, and this is a pretty good illustration of how …
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–Rep. Jerry Nadler, who represents the district that would be home to the Manhattan mosque, spells out an argument many people seem to be missing:
As much as I respect the sensitivities of people, there is a fundamental mistake behind it, and that is how can you — and I can quote any number of some of the
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The president, on a quick vacation/oil spill solidarity tour in the Gulf, tempered his defense of the proposed Islamic community center in lower Manhattan:
My intention was to simply let people know what I thought, which was that in this country we treat everbody equally in accordance with
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As I previously suggested, Friday’s Iftar dinner at the White House provided a unique opportunity for Obama to address the debate over the proposed construction of a Mosque in lower Manhattan, two blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. He did just that. Though the president tiptoed around the issue in his written statement …
–The Washington Post profiles Elizabeth Warren. The timing may be good.
–Our colleague Michael Grunwald explores why Fed Chair Bernanke doesn’t have his foot on the monetary policy gas pedal.
–Worth re-posting: Scherer makes very good points about the Rangel case and Congress’s modus operandi.
–Carl Hulse writes porking …
–The Obama administration sends $3 billion to jobless homeowners.
–There may be more of them this week than last; new unemployment filings hit a near six-month high.
–GM posts its best quarterly profit since 2004 as the automaker prepares to take its stock public. The federal government — and by extension you, dear taxpayer …
Cordoba House, for those who haven’t been following along, is the name of a proposed Islamic community center in lower Manhattan, two blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood, that would include a house of worship. Thus the “Ground Zero Mosque.” (A side note about proximity on Manhattan: Times Square is two blocks from my …
