Here is the House health care bill (pdf). A couple of highlights (I haven't read the whole thing yet):Individual mandate is enforced by (1) a financial penalty of 50% of the smallest premium the individual would have been able to pay to … [Read more...]
Lefties: hold your fire on Alito
I have no position yet on what the Democrats should do about Judge Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. But I spoke this morning to a lawyer whom I know to be a partisan progressive Democrat who knows Alito, and who supports the … [Read more...]
One liberal’s positive view of Alito
I asked Pringle to describe what kind of judge Alito is. She said that Alito is "very thoughtful, very careful, very respectful of Supreme Court precedent. He has a strong conservative intellectual approach to things, but … [Read more...]
Employers are NOT universally opposed to “pay or play”
Why would a coalition of business leaders (Edmundson won't say just yet who is in his coalition - he will announce his membership as part of his State House press conference at noon tomorrow) support an assessment on business?Edmundson … [Read more...]
Bush wants Alito confirmed this year
President Bush, in announcing Judge Samuel Alito's nomination, has urged the Senate to hold a vote on Alito by the end of this year. That seems very unlikely - last I heard, both Republicans and Democrats were saying that the … [Read more...]
Alito picked to replace O’Connor
Federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito, Jr., currently sitting on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, will be named this morning to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.Bush tried the whole "go outside the federal … [Read more...]
You tell ’em, Harry
Senate minority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on this morning's withdrawal of Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court:The radical right wing of the Republican Party killed the Harriet Miers nomination. Apparently, Ms. Miers did not … [Read more...]
Report: Fitzgerald seeks to indict Rove and Libby
According to Raw Story, sources close to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation are saying that Fitzgerald has asked his grand jury to indict Karl Rove and Scooter Libby on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, and has … [Read more...]
Nicholas Kristof, meet Senator Hutchison
What a spectacle. We expect this from the pathetic John Tierney, the NYT's worst op-ed columnist. But now Nicholas Kristof, the usually-sensible NY Times op-ed writer, has lowered himself to the embarrassing level of Sen. Kay … [Read more...]
RIP Rosa Parks
The woman who spawned the modern civil rights movement by her courageous action 50 years ago on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama has died at the age of 92. From the linked article: "I'd like people to say I'm a person who always … [Read more...]
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