1,000 Words: Fun and Games Edition
While “1,000 Words” breathlessly awaits the annual presidential pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey, we amuse ourselves with this photo from our White House Photo Blog:
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Mark Sanford: Fiscal Conservative and Frequent Flyer
The South Carolina Ethics Commission has released the details of 37 ethics charges against embattled Governor Mark Sanford. Interestingly, while nearly all of the allegations involve travel (airline upgrades at state expense, reimbursing himself with campaign funds for personal expenses), none of those trips seem to have been to …
Health Reform: 59 and counting… 60 Votes To Proceed To Debate
2:30 EST: They’ve got 60. Lincoln says she will vote to proceed. See update below
With Senator Mary Landrieu’s announcement this afternoon on the Senate floor that she will support the motion to proceed to debate on the health care bill–with the caveat that this does not guarantee her support for the final product–Majority Leader …
1,000 Words: Clean-Up Edition
From our White House Photo Blog, this scene from President Obama’s trip to China:
Health Care Moves Into Full Campaign Mode
I have this on TIME.com.
The Senate Bill and the Public Option
I’ve always had trouble understanding the opt-out version of the public option. Or more specifically, I’ve had trouble understanding why any state would actually opt out of something that some might find ideologically objectionable, but that doesn’t actually cost them anything, gives their citizens a choice, and might actually bring in …
The Senate Bill
I’m still wading through the Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary analysis of the health care bill that Majority Leader Harry Reid will be taking to the Senate floor, but here’s a Power Point circulating among Senate Democratic staffers that gives you a
basic tour of the bill, with some comparisons to other versions.
UPDATE: …
A Word About My Breasts
Can we talk? I’ve got something on my chest.
Count me among Kate’s colleagues who are flummoxed by this report. I think it proves that even scientists can be pinheads. My issue is not with their recommendations on when and how often women should get mammograms. That seems worthy of debate. What I don’t get is their finding that women …
Early Word on the Senate Health Care Bill
Abortion and Health Reform
Ruth Marcus makes sense.
1,000 Words
From our White House Photo Blog. Would this man’s condition be covered under health reform?
Obama Would Fire The Afpak Leaker
At least, that’s what he tells CBS’s Chip Reid:
Reid says he asked the president if he’s as angry as Defense Secretary Robert Gates about all the leaks coming out of his administration about the Afghanistan decision.
“I think I’m angrier than Bob Gates about it,” Mr. Obama replied. “We have deliberations in the situation room
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