It’s been quite a week for my Make Them Filibuster campaign. Two high-profile endorsements! First, Governor Ed Rendell and now historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Here’s what she told Jon Stewart last night on the Daily Show:
Let them filibuster. You realize how great they’re going to look, these Republicans, trying not to go to
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Dear Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner:
More of these, please.
The President last night did not spell out a tactical way forward for his struggling health reform initiative, but he did make the case for a comprehensive bill. And I was struck by his frank admission that the process of getting there has turned off the American people:
Still, this is a complex issue, and the longer it was
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sounding very determined–and surprisingly upbeat–about the prospects for a comprehensive health care bill in the wake of last week’s Senate election in Massachusetts, which cost the Democrats their 60-vote, fillibuster-proof majority.
“You can always find a way. You can always find a way,” Pelosi …
Apparently, behave himself. The congressman made famous for yelling “You lie!” in the middle of President Obama’s health care speech tells AP that we shouldn’t expect a repeat performance during the State of the Union address tonight:
“I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior,” he said. “I have the
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After looking at all their other options–drafting a smaller health care bill, or passing the most popular parts piecemeal–Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have come down to the realization that they’ve got one play left on health care: Get the House to pass the Senate bill, with the assurance of a set of revisions to be …
My favorite cause seems to have picked up a new spokesman: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.
We’ll see if the Little Girls of the United States Senate pay him any more attention than they have me. (In addition to the two links above, you can read more of my earlier arguments on this subject here, and here.)
I was struck by this passage in the Washington Post story about its poll of Massachusetts voters, because it so closely tracks what I was seeing up there anecdotally:
Donna Brazile forwards this, dated a few days ago, from our friend Minyon Moore, who is traveling with Bill Clinton:
The latest email from Jay Newton-Small:
John Edwards arrives in Haiti. Seriously. Today of all days.
Note/update: A White House official denies that Emanuel has been floating any specific proposal. Says the official: “Rahm continues to speak with members and hear their thoughts, but has not been pushing or advocating one position over another.”
Politico reports that, in an effort to rescue what he can of the Obama Administration’s …
