The Call: Supreme Court Searching, SRLC
This week’s podcast features Michael, Alex and Kate talking about the search for Justice Stevens’ replacement, the Southern Republican Leadership Conference and more. Enjoy:
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Morning Must Reads: The Hot Hand
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–Bart Stupak is expected to announce his retirement today. The heat generated from an arduous year of health reform debate and his role in forging a compromise on abortion language seems to have taken their toll on the 18-year vet.
Morning Must Reads: Just Getting Started
US President Barack Obama (R) toasts with his Czech Republic’s counterpart Vaclav Klaus (C) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev after signing the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Prague on April 8, 2010. JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images
–Obama and Medvedev signed the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty today in …
Virginia: Where History is Politics
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Having grown up in the Commonwealth, I’m no stranger to the tensions that inevitably lie at the intersection of Southern history and Southern politics. Back in the 1980s and ’90s, Virginia had a very awkward thing called Lee-Jackson-King Day. Believe it or not, the government decided it would be …
Morning Must Reads: Prague
President Barack Obama is greeted by a large crowd following his Prague speech April 5, 2009, in Hradcany Square in Prague, Czech Republic. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
–President Obama heads to the Czech Republic on Wednesday night. He’s returning to the site of his April, 2009 speech on nonproliferation to sign a new …
Morning Must Reads: Steeled
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–Michael Steele’s woes atop the RNC are being compounded, not helped, by a handful of high-profile resignations, including chief of staff Ken McKay. Rather than looking like he’s getting his house in order, the departures inevitably lead to a series of stories citing the recent risque spending flap …
Morning Must Reads: Let’s Roll
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–Democrats have been careful not to appear gleeful over promising economic news as the jobs market continues to struggle. Cautious optimism ruled the day Sunday even as the White House economic team reacted to a very positive unemployment report.
–Unemployment woes are
Morning Must Reads: About That “Senator Program”
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–John Broder and Clifford Krauss, among others, scratch their heads over offshore drilling.
–Tom Schaller says everybody’s a bit right.
–China signals willingness to play ball on Iran sanctions.
–Sino-American relations warm.
–The RNC gets a potential rival.
–The …
Morning Must Reads: Shore Thing
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–Obama will announce he’s opening coastal waters to offshore drilling today.
–The New York Times has a handy-dandy map:
–The Greens gripe, but get Bristol Bay.
–The left worries that the White House just jumped the gun on concessions for a climate bill.
–The White …
Morning Must Reads: Trust
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–Dexter Filkins and Mark Landler describe a growing deficit of trust between the White House and Hamid Karzai.
–Obama prods him in an interview with Matt Lauer on “Today.”
–AHIP caved fairly quickly to the administration’s needling over pre-existing conditions for minors. The …
Palin Gears Up The Midterm Machine
Fresh off her re-election rally for John McCain in Arizona and Tea Party soirée in Searchlight, Sarah Palin is endorsing a trio of Iraq War veterans running for the House. The three Republican candidates are looking to unseat one- or two-term Democrats in competitive districts, and each has been touted by the National Republican …
Morning Must Reads: No Daylight
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–Obama worked in an address to the troops and a sit-down with President Karzai in just six hours on the ground in Afghanistan. The brief weekend trip was his first to the nation as commander in chief. Michael tagged along to tell the tale.
–Reuters describes how the entire thing was …
The Call: Financial Reg, Midterms and More
Just in case Karen’s health care Q&A isn’t quite enough to sate your hunger for Saturday podcast action, here’s Jay and Michael joining me for this week’s edition of The Call: