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What is it this week with these guys and the Titanic? Do they know something we don’t? Head for the lifeboats!
(H/T: C-SPAN Video Library)
This, from Jeffrey Rosen and in the latest dead-tree TIME, is worth a read.
As Jay notes below, we have had what might be a major development in the health care debate. In this morning’s NYT, Robert Pear reports:
As the health care debate heats up, the American Medical Association is letting Congress know that it will oppose creation of a government-sponsored insurance plan, which President Obama and many
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A couple of months ago over lunch in San Francisco Speaker Pelosi was ruminating over how the Dems won control of the House. The problem after the 2004 election was that President Bush’s approval ratings were too high: 58% in January of 2005 and more than 60% of seniors liked his ideas on Social Security. But Pelosi saw an opportunity …
Looking ahead to November’s gubernatorial race.
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I can’t figure out how to make two links play at one time. So to really appreciate this one from the C-SPAN Video Library, you’ll just have to imagine in …
The Democratic National Committee, through the Organizing for America operation that it imported from the Obama presidential campaign, has put up a new website that attempts to translate some of the internet-fueled grassroots tactics of the 2008 campaign into a governing tool for the Obama presidency. In that toolbox: Everything from …
Some old white guy, it seems. Susan Page tells us this in today’s USA Today:
Who speaks for the GOP?
The question flummoxes most Americans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, which is among the reasons for the party’s sagging state and uncertain direction.
A 52% majority of those surveyed couldn’t come up with a name when asked
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Senate Republicans are clearly not psyched about holding Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing the week of July 13.
Senator Judiciary Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions:
We need to examine the record of 3,500 probably more than 4,000 cases. In addition, she has given a lot of speeches and written law
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The Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee has officially filed legislative language for the bill that it expects to begin writing next week, so that it can meet a Senate rule that requires it to do so seven days in advance of markup. (I’d throw in a link here, but the one they included doesn’t work.) But the bill is …
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy just announced on the Senate floor that Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor will receive her confirmation hearing before his committee on July 13.”It’s in line with past experience,” Leahy said. “There’s no reason to delay this well qualified nominee. She deserves an …
Our colleague Mark Thompson has this story on TIME.com about the Obama Administration’s turnaround.
From this morning’s Washington Journal, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on single payer (which he supports) and Max Baucus’ bipartisanship (not so much):
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