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Protesters favoring single payer health care showed up today at the Senate Finance Committee’s hearing on financing health care reform. Their demonstration is silent, until about 5:30, at which point Chairman Max Baucus ejects them from the hearing room.
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The Washington Post has an interesting tidbit today on the McKiernan sacking. Apparently, the general was cautious about standing up local militias to defend against the Taliban, an experiment that has recently begun in Wardak Province:
One senior government official involved in Afghanistan policy said McKiernan was overly cautious in
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Rep. Pete Hoekstra today called on the CIA to release notes taken in a September 2002 intelligence briefing of him and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, marking week two in a fight of he said she said that is growing to Dostoevskian proportions.
Presumably the notes, which Hoekstra says …
Okay, one last post from the White House Correspondents Dinner, and I promise I’ll stop. This, of course, is from our incomparable White House Photo Blog. But it really, really, really needs a better caption. Get to work, Swampland commenters!
UPDATE: We have some good ones so far. For instance:
From commenter flacidcasual: …
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(Video courtesy of our friends at C-SPAN)
UPDATE: Here’s the transcript:
Q If I could change topics, then, what did the President think of Wanda Sykes comment about Rush Limbaugh and the hijacker?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I’ll leave it to the immediate past
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The release of journalist Roxana Saberi from an Iranian prison is definitely a positive development–for her and her family, obviously, but also, as Joe points out, for the information it gives us about divided factions within the Iranian government.
Meanwhile in North Korea, journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling remain behind bars …
David McKiernan is one of our finest generals, especially when it comes to conventional warfare. If you need to get a force from the Kuwait border to Baghdad in three weeks, he’s the guy to do it–as he did at the beginning of the Iraq War. I’m not sure he was perfectly situated when it came to the war in Afghanistan. This is anything …
I like David Frum. I think he’s a smart and honorable guy, who refuses to walk in lockstep with the conservative movement–but he’s still a conservative, and there is a reflexive difference between the way he and I look at the world. Today, he criticizes the Obama Administration for intervening in California’s budget reduction travails …
There are all sorts of interesting signals coming out of Iran these days. Today, the American journalist Roxana Saberi was released from prison, which is excellent news but doesn’t diminish the outrageousness of her incarceration in the first place. This much seems clear: Some faction in the Iranian government wanted her in jail on …
So what to make of the news that major players in the health care industry are vowing to “do our part” to rein in health costs as part of the Obama Administration’s drive to get a major reform bill passed this year? The White House seems to think it is a great step forward. Yesterday, it held a background briefing to impress upon …
The annual spring rite that is known in these parts as the prom has come and gone. It reached new heights of giddiness–movie stars! movie stars!–but was so crowded that I didn’t actually spot many of them. At one point, someone at my table (we were toward the rear of a huge ballroom) told me that she could see Tom Cruise’s back. As for …
In response to your current Cafferty File question on CNN.com:
What does it mean that a comedian will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate?
Uhm, when has that not been the case?
Yours truly,
A Viewer
Statement just released from Robert Gibbs: “The President has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera as Director of the White House Military Office.”
Who? Oh, this guy. Yeah, that’s his bad.
