Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may be in “no rush” to complete the work that sends a finished healthcare reform bill to President Obama to sign into law, but a growing number of his colleagues disagree. Some lawmakers not only see an opportunity to enact health reform, but also a new chance to establish a federally run public option that just weeks ago had been dead politically. Where healthcare reform was once his top priority, Reid (D-Nev.) this week...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Obama Spars with GOP House Members on Live TV
President Obama addressed the House GOP today on Live TV and it turned out to be “An Amazing Moment” in political and perhaps television history. Accepting the invitation to speak at the House GOP retreat may turn out to be the smartest decision the White House has made in months. Debating a law professor is kind of foolish: the Republican House Caucus has managed to turn Obama’s weakness — his penchant for nuance — into a strength. Plenty of...
SOCIALISM! SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM?
The political right vociferously argues that much or most of the current agenda of the political left violates the intentions of the Founding Fathers, i.e. is unconstitutional. The claim being, in essence, that the genius displayed at the Convention in 1787 created a work product that was designed and intended to be a roadblock in the way of our participation in the development of a modern world.The whole problem with the backward lookers, though, is that they’re so busy...
ANALYSIS: Obama Appears Not To Be The Political Dead Weight Dems Fear He Is
Coming off his first State of the Union address Wednesday, President Obama appears to be in better political shape with the American people than has been widely assumed. Already anxious going into this year’s midterm elections, the fear of many Democrats grew as Obama poll numbers continued to slide. That worry exploded into near-panic earlier this month when a Republican captured a Senate seat from Massachusetts for the first time in more than 30 years. That Scott Brown won...
Text of President Obama’s State of the Union Address
The following is the prepared text of President Obama’s State of the Union address, delivered Jan. 27, 2010, as released by the White House: Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Our Constitution declares that from time to time, the President shall give to Congress information about the state of our union. For two hundred and twenty years, our leaders have fulfilled this duty. They have done so during periods of prosperity and...
Some REAL Astroturf in Oregon
And, if you look at the dollars spent on this campaign by both sides and the outcome, they roughly parallel in proportion. These days in Oregon, the $ spent is always roughly equal to the votes garnered. Cash politics. Yum.
Err-America
Air America, the liberal radio network, went down in flames, Jan. 21, when it filed for bankruptcy. It wasn’t because of air-to-air combat with conservative talk shows and bloggers. It wasn’t because of the Recession, although reduced advertising revenue, a reality of all media, also affected Air America. It wasn’t even demographics, even though older, marginalized conservatives tend to listen to radio more than do younger liberal professionals. And media history was only part of the problem. By the...
‘Brown Democrats’
Eighty-two percent of them said they want a public option as part of the Democrats’ health care reform. Yet they just helped elect a guy who opposes the public option and the Democrats’ health care reform. They’re Obama voters who cast ballots for Massachusetts’s new Republican senator, Scott Brown. He promised to be “the 41st vote” against what the GOP slams as “Obamacare.” The 82 percent number is from a Research 2000 survey taken right after the polls closed...
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