In case you missed it, over the weekend President Obama announced 15 recess appointments to a variety of important administration jobs. These are all nominees who have been waiting a very long time to be confirmed by the Senate, but … [Read more...]
“Not ready for prime time” doesn’t begin to describe it
Really, Scott Brown should hole up with a media consultant for about a month before venturing onto the airwaves again. It just gets sadder and sadder. Via TPM: "Inappropriate"? What is that supposed to mean? … [Read more...]
Right-wing think tank purges David Frum
As noted here a few days ago, conservative David Frum (a former George W. Bush speechwriter) lambasted his own party, and the Fox News/talk radioheads in particular, for the way they handled the health care debate. Well, no good deed goes … [Read more...]
Senate passes reconciliation bill with minor changes; final House vote expected tonight
The Senate, after shooting down a series of Republican amendments, passed the reconciliation bill 56-43 (Sen. Isakson (R-GA) was absent due to illness). All Republicans, including Senator Lockstep, voted "no" (as did Conservadems … [Read more...]
Drip, drip, drip … Pope’s inaction on sex abuse by priests now tied to U.S. case
In 1996, Cardinal Ratzinger failed to respond to two letters about the case from Rembert G. Weakland, Milwaukee's archbishop at the time. After eight months, the second in command at the doctrinal office, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, now the … [Read more...]
“Ten years of revenue, six years of spending.” Wrong.
The answer is that in the first four years (2010-2013), new revenues are $59 billion; new spending on insurance is $29 billion; and other spending (e.g. Medicare) decreases by $29 billion, for a net deficit reduction of $59 billion. … [Read more...]
Herald: Senator Brown’s “sell-by” date has passed
"You know they can try to pooh-pooh my election and try to minimize it and all that stuff," Brown said. Oh, "pooh-pooh." I get it. Sorry -- my mistake. ;-) Anyway, poor Scott has been reduced to mumbling barely coherent, … [Read more...]
“Widmer laughed when responding to Cahill’s slight”
There's much more to say about the impact of the passage of health care reform on the Gov's race, but for now, I must just note this outstanding nugget from today's Globe article on that subject: When WRKO cohost Todd Feinberg noted that … [Read more...]
The greatest irony: Scott Brown gave us health care reform
On the night Scott Brown won, I wrote about the irony of his election: despite Scott Brown's promise to be the 41st vote against "Obamacare," he won't be. There will be a health care bill enacted this year, and quite possibly this … [Read more...]
Waterloo
At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were … [Read more...]
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