From USA Today: Oil spill could sink Obama’s offshore drilling plan If there was ever a silver lining to something so horrible, this is it. But at what costs? A third leak has been discovered, and a fire-fighting expert said the disaster may become the biggest oil spill ever. [SNIP] Some 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) […]
The retirement of Justice Stevens is really not good news for those of us on the left: The leading prospects — U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and federal appellate judges Merrick Garland and Diane Wood — are relative moderates. Kagan has backed strong presidential authority over national security; rulings by Garland and Wood suggest they […]
And back to the House it goes. Rumors are there could be a vote tonight on it. If it passes then it’s on to the White House.
The biggest reason I have been very pessimistic about the possibility of us seeing health care reform this year is because of the problems in the Senate. I know a lot of people have maintained that we already have a bill that passed the Senate, but we do have to remember that our Congress is […]
That’s how many people watched the White House’s live stream of the health care summit yesterday. That doesn’t include other services live streaming it, like CSPAN and MSNBC. It’s also online views only – not people watching it on TV. This really puts to shame the GOP argument yesterday that no one was watching the […]
Yes it is: Unions and liberal groups have dismissed Sen. Harry Reid’s $15 billion jobs bill as “puny” while calling for larger stimulus measures. More than two dozen organizations, including the AFL-CIO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) and National Council of La Raza, warned Democratic leaders in Congress to avoid tackling […]
Last week news broke that Sen. Richard Shelby had placed a hold on almost all of President Obama’s nominees in lieu of getting funding for some of his pork projects. Now he has retreated: Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama will stop blocking Senate confirmation of about 70 government appointees nominated by President Barack Obama, […]
I’ve been trying to stay out of the tabloid mania that is John Edwards, but this caught my interest today: Young also said another copy has been turned over to the FBI, which has been investigating the money that exchanged hands during Edwards’ second White House campaign. An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment. Unless that […]
One of the staunchest bill backers out there seems to be getting fed up with President Obama. After summing up President Obama’s statement today on the future of health care reform as, “Run away, run away!”, Krugman finishes with this: Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House […]
Leave it to Limbaugh to muster up the kind of inner hatred that would scare the living crap out of any normal human. Today he managed to do just that by comparing Haiti relief to death panels: Will someone ask Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who is Rahm’s brother and one of the lead White House people […]