As the Obama Administration continues to push Congress on comprehensive immigration reform, the Department of Justice is expected to file a lawsuit today against Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. The border state’s new law, scheduled to go into effect later this month, allows local law enforcement to question a person’s …
Like it or not, the Affordable Care Act is now law. Barring full repeal or a court finding that it’s unconstitutional – impossible in the near term and fairly unlikely in the long term – there’s not much those opposed to the law can do to resist it.
But yet, some of the people who may be in charge of enforcing the law are telling …
For all that the Obama Administration has done to promote the new Affordable Care Act – the press releases, the town halls, the cable news hits – none did much to move the needle of public opinion. Despite a few polls showing a small uptick in support for the new law, on the whole, the public has remained divided over how it will …
There are a few very simple truths about how health insurance works, which some commentators and politicians can’t seem to grasp. The result is a constant drumbeat of disingenuous statements that misrepresent how health reform will work and why the Affordable Care Act was written as it is.
The latest failure to grasp comes from …
Who says a prostitute patronizing former governor can’t get a shot at redemption?
After stints as a fill-in host on MSNBC and CNN, the latter announced today that Eliot Spitzer will co-host a new show on the network with conservative Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker. Their show will air at 8 p.m., the slot occupied by …
AP reporter Jonathan M. Katz got his hands on a Senate report about the rebuilding efforts in Haiti and the situation looks very, very bad for residents of the ravaged capital Port-au-Prince. Five months after a devastating earthquake, bureaucratic obstacles, foreign aid that’s a mere trickle and the potential for real political strife …
The embattled BP CEO is turning over day-to-day responsibilities in the Gulf to Bob Dudley, the company’s managing director. BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg made the announcement in an interview with Sky News. [UPDATED with video clip below]
Interviewer Jeff Randall characterizes Hayward’s performance testifying before a …
My colleague Alex Altman has an entertaining review up today of Glenn Beck’s new “thriller,” The Overton Window. Despite getting panned in the Washington Post and Beck’s own acknowledgment that well, maybe he didn’t exactly write the entire thing, Alex notes that the novel will be a best seller anyway. The entire review is definitely …
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
(President Obama will speak in the Rose Garden shortly, once he wraps up the meeting with BP executives pictured above.)
Ben Smith has nabbed a letter from some wealthy Republican donors urging others to send money to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Smith notes, rightly, that this is further evidence that although RNC Chair Michael Steele is no longer in the spotlight as a liability to the party, he’s still being marginalized – in an election …
In a new, oddly titled Facebook post, Sarah Palin blasts President Obama for not communicating directly with BP CEO Tony Hayward.
Mr. President: with all due respect, you have to get involved, sir. The priorities and timeline of an oil company are not the same as the public’s …as a former chief executive, I humbly offer this
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While primary votes are being tallied across the country this mini-Super Tuesday, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial is starting in Chicago. Jury selection concluded today and opening statements are being delivered now. Here are some mildly amusing biographical summaries of a few of the jurors who will decide …
Via former Swampland star Karen Tumulty, here’s Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Fox News espousing the cleanliness of his state’s beaches – oil spill notwithstanding. “We’ve had a few tar balls, but we have tar balls every year, a natural product of the Gulf of Mexico.” Apparently Barbour’s insistence – everything is fine on …
