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Mary Landrieu will vote to let the health care bill proceed tonight, but she is blackmailing us by insisting that the public option have a trigger. Chuck Schumer is supposedly responsible for working out some kind of compromise. As I said before, it would have been better to put the trigger in ...
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Ah, here's a story which is a perfect convergence of those crazy gun control advocates and activist judges infecting their sinister anti-founding fathers memes into the minds of ordinary Americans in order to defeat our precious 2nd Amendment Rights. And in Tennessee forgawdssakes! Is nothing ...
Other
We'll have a day of annoying speeches in the Senate and then sometime around 8pm we'll have a vote on cloture/motion to proceed to debate on the health care bill. The only remaining questions are whether Max Baucus can make it back from Montana for the vote (his mother is ill) and whether Sen. ...
Congress
Blanche Lincoln
You know what would be classy? Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is in Montana caring for his ailing mother. That seems important to me. I think Max should stay in Montana for as long as he feels it is necessary. I think the Ranking Member of the Finance Committee, Chuck ...
Congress
Max Baucus
Chuck Grassley
Washington, D.C
I generally agree with Jay Cost's analysis on where the health care bill stands right now. His analysis also supports what I've been saying about the general strategy of maintaining momentum by postponing the toughest votes as long as possible. It looks very likely that Harry Reid will get ...
Congress
Health care
Harry Reid
Joe Lieberman
You might be a wingnut if you vote against a bill to prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to baby because HIV-positive babies are a good way to teach mothers about the dangers of promiscuity. Making the following Tweet just confirms your wingnut status: "Don't for a second ...
White House
Bud Day
Barack Obama
The Republican governors got together in some god-forsaken place called Lost Pines, Texas, to discuss their collective futures and the prospects for winning more state houses in the November 2010 elections. Adam Nagourney was there, and he wrote about it. AdNags was most impressed by the lack of ...
White House
If I can leap ahead a bit here, in anticipation of Harry Reid actually passing health care reform (something that is far from assured), the Democrats are going to have to defend their votes for this bill, while the Republicans will have to defend their votes against it. Because a lot of the ...
Congress
They should have shot Khalid Sheik Mohammed execution style in the back of his head and dumped his body in a canal and spared us all the national security risks posed by Article III and the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution.
Congress
Richard Burr
CIA
9/11
Senator Tom Coburn made a big fuss (stink) the other day when he threatened to read the entire health care reform bill on the floor of the Senate, a process that likely would have taken 34 hours of valuable debate time on health care reform for little if any purpose other than to show that ...
Congress
Tom Coburn
Republican National Committee
Washington, D.C
Any women want to chime in on these recent recommendations that women wait longer to do mammograms and check for cervical cancer?
White House
Did you see this shit? It doesn't get much weirder. I wonder if people were unknowingly riding their Lithuanian horses in the ring around the secret CIA prison. And 'prefabricated pods' sounds like something out of Star Trek.
World
CIA
9/11
If you had to give President Obama a letter grade for his overall performance so far, what would it be?
Other
New Hampshire: Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, the author of an amendment to the House health care bill that would ban federal funding from being used for abortions, has become a whipping boy of fellow Democrats on the campaign trail of late. New Hampshire Rep. Paul Hodes, who is running ...
Congress
Washington: The Senate Commerce Committee added its approval this morning to the Local Community Radio Act, passing the bill on a unanimous voice vote. The measure, introduced by Senator Maria Cantwell, would allow thousands of new Low Power FM radio stations to launch across the country. With ...
Congress
Florida: Buffeted by weeks of negative press and a newly threatening rival from the right, FL Gov. Charlie Crist's (R) campaign will step up direct engagements with his opponent, insiders tell OnCall. Crist will attack former FL House Speaker Marco Rubio (R), citing his rival's failure to ...
Congress
I think the economy is pretty darn awful, but with record profits on Wall Street and all the happy talk about a recovery from the recession (albeit a jobless recovery) it's confusing for many people as to what our economic future really holds. Well, here's relevant statistic that sums it up ...
White House
You have probably heard by now that yesterday afternoon Harry Reid invited Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche Lincoln to a meeting in his office. From what I can divine, Reid likes to use subtlety more than a heavy hand. In response to a question from TPMDC Nelson told reporters that, at a ...
