Stumped for what to send on the Most Romantic Day of the Year? The Republican National Committee is offering this selection of e-cards, none of which seem to feature any pictures of … Republicans.
UPDATE: From Commenter bobcn1:
The gop has been trying to prevent gay marriage. Now they’re trying to ruin the other kind, too.
We’ve got a new member of the team here in Swampland.
Starting today, Adam Sorensen will be joining us. Adam has been distinguishing himself over at The Page, where he has been working since 2008 as a producer, and he will continue to pull his usual shift over there with Mark Halperin and the gang. He was born some time during the …
Michael, per this post, I’d again like to make this argument: The filibuster is not the problem. The filibuster is the solution. If only they made Senators like they used to.
UPDATE: For those of you Swamplanders who want to delve into the geeky details of what it takes to actually conduct a filibuster, here’s a link to a 2003 report …
As Jay notes below, Murtha was a close friend and mentor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and her effort to install him as her second-in-command counts as a rare misstep in her leadership of her caucus. So why such a close and unlikely bond between the gruff Marine and the San Francisco liberal?
I’m still out of the country, trying to figure out how I’m going to get back to DC, now that the airports are all shut down. But I thought this photo, from our White House Photo Blog, might elicit a few creative captions over this snowbound weekend. Are there plaques on the other chairs at the table? What do you think it says on Biden’s? …
Welcome, Joe. We’ve been here for a while. But you can now join Ed Rendell and Doris Kearns Goodwin. And, oh, yeah, … me. It started all the way back …here.
I’ll be on the road for the next few days and posting only sporadically, so I’ll leave you this from our White House Photo Blog:
Greg Sargent picks this up:
The GOP Senate leadership has privately settled on a strategy to derail health reform if Dems try to pass the Senate bill with a fix through reconciliation, aides say: Unleash an endless stream of amendments designed to stall for time and to force Dems to take untenable votes.
The aide described the
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Norm Ornstein writes today in the Washington Post about the paradox of this extraordinarily unpopular Congress:
…even with the wrench thrown in by Republican Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts, this Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society 89th Congress in 1965-66, and
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may well be in the race for New Orleans coroner…
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President Obama and Vice President Biden are courtside today. I hope they caught this only-in-DC scene, which comes to us via the Twitterfeed of CNN’s Sam Feist:
From the latest White House Pool Report, here are some details of what the scene is like:
From our White House Photo Blog:
