President Obama, bless his heart, evidently thought the nation would have a reasoned and respectful debate on health care reform. Oh, ye of liberal faith. Anyway, I’d been waiting for some Democrat to turn the tables on the shrieking, swastika-sign waving yahoos who show up at the town hall-style forums to demonize the president and the Democrats who want to overhaul our health care system. For weeks, we got grin-and-bear it from hard-pressed House and Senate Dems at the town hall food fights. Finally, we...
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Kennedy Urges That His Senate Seat Be Filled Quickly
The Boston Globe reported today that Senator Ted Kennedy, in a letter, “has privately asked the governor and legislative leaders to change the succession law to guarantee that Massachusetts will not lack a Senate vote when his seat becomes vacant.” In a personal, sometimes wistful letter sent Tuesday to Governor Deval L. Patrick, Senate President Therese Murray, and House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, Kennedy asks that Patrick be given authority to appoint someone to the seat temporarily before voters...
Rachel Maddow’s Segment On Healthcare And The Public Option (Video)
Aired on Monday, Rachel Maddow reported on the switch a day made between the White House statements of the weekend and those on Monday. Jane Hamsher, of FireDogLake, joined Rachel at the end of the segment to discuss her effort to lead a progressive push for a public healthcare option in any case. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy I do not agree with Hamsher that...
Joe Klein on Guns at Obama Events
TIME columnist Joe Klein was on CNN Momday night discussing the gun rights activists showing up at Obama events in areas where it is legal to carry to weapon. Klein said: “I’ve been doing this for almost 40 years now and I’ve never seen anything like this.” Klein argued that, just as there are limits to First Amendment protections in order to maintain public safety, there should be limits to Second Amendment rights for the same reasons....
To the Tea Party People
The fight over health care reform continues with the tea partiers leading the battle. H/T to my old friend Rich… Read Charles Laquidara: “To the Tea Party People.”
“…Close to Brown Shirt tactics”
“The White House struck back hard…against conservative pundits and town hall protesters who have compared the President to Hitler and his policies saying that the critics are ‘on thin ice’ and should ‘take that temperature down a bit,’” Sam Stein wrote on the Huffington Post blogsite. By “the White House” Stein meant Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press secretary. He admonished the president’s detractors to lay off the Nazi stuff. But “struck back hard?” – this old reporter thinks the president’s flak...
Sanford Wants Pity
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wants a little pity: “It’s ‘hard’ living alone in governor’s mansion.” You know Gov. Sanford… You play… You pay.
I Guess She Told Him
Ouch. Hillary Clinton got a little testy with a Congolese student when he “asked her what “Mr. Clinton” thought about a Chinese trade deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” ”You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?” she replied incredulously when the male student asked her what ”Mr. Clinton” thought of World Bank concerns about a multibillion-dollar Chinese loan offer to the Congo. ”My husband is not secretary of state, I am,” an obviously annoyed Clinton...
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