About Obama’s speech.
One other note: On this whole question of whether illegal immigrants will be included in the plan, which caused the vile Congressman from South Carolina to shout “You lie” when the President said they wouldn’t be covered. Why shouldn’t they be? After all, when an illegal immigrant cuts his hand while chopping …
The President said that he would “call out” those who spread misinformation about his speech, but why wait? Let’s start by calling out these liars
who are running ads that say that “Washington” wants to impose a CanadienCanadian-style* system here. They are scum, scaring the public in an entirely …
From our colleague Sophia Yan, who has been bird-dogging this on Capitol Hill:
The White House has just put out a list of who will be sitting in the best seats in the House (Chamber) tonight. There are a few famous faces (Vicki Kennedy’s appearance will be especially poignant), and some others whose names and stories you probably don’t know, but should:
First off, let me disclose a bias: I like Smokey the Bear. When I was a kid, I thought he was a real bear, because some California television station showed a partially charred bear cub who had survived a forest fire. I always thought he did good work. He prevented forest fires. (This video, for instance, is pretty priceless.)
But his …
Politicians can also be slimy horndogs in a statehouse near you. This report comes from California, where Assemblyman Michael Duvall, a Republican who has been praised for his “family values” positions, is in hot water after a report by KCAL, which I post after the jump. Look for the reporter who asks this priceless question: “Very …
Last week I said that it would probably be best for Van Jones–who used to go around saying that he was a communist and then signed a “truther” petition–to resign his job as one of the President’s environmental advisers.
Now, it seems, the Republicans have designated a former birther–that is, one of those paranoid nitwits who …
Andrew Sullivan is right on target about why the budget deficits–and national debt–are so high: it’s the Republicans, obviously.
I just got my copy of “The Governor,” the new memoir by disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. Some of the headlines have been pointed to elsewhere, including Blagojevich’s claim that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel tried lay the groundwork for a return to his House seat after two years as Obama’s Chief of Staff.
But by …
Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has decided to stay at the helm of the Banking Committee. Dodd was the next-most-senior senator on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee after Ted Kennedy – whose desk remains shrouded in black on the Senate floor and adourned with flowers as colleagues mourn his passing. Dodd could’ve …
Unfortunately, Karen, the president’s bizarrely controversial back-to-school remarks didn’t include any references to iPod use, so you’ll have to continue waging that battle on your own with the Swampkids. He did, however, address the issue of Facebook this morning at a visit to Wakefield High School in Arlington. In response to a …
Not as bad as we seem to think, argues Peter Bergen, who knows a lot about the place. Which is not to say that we shouldn’t be concerned about the current trajectory–and, above all, the possibility that average Afghans won’t consider the Karzai government legitimate, given the flagrant examples of fraud we’ve heard about in recent days. …