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Howard Dean Talks Health Care Reform

My friend Ellen Beth Gill at Ellen of the Tenth, live blogged Howard Dean’s conference call earlier on health care reform. Here’s where we’re at via Ellen’s live blog but I recommend reading it all: 
Senate finance committee meeting tomorrow. Go to moveon.org/publicoption. Write your piece.
Ellen notes that her old pal and mine, “John Kerry is [...]

Tea Bags Full of Crap

On Countdown yesterday, David Schuster, sitting in for Keith Olbermann, took “Fox News to task for so aggressively promoting the right wing’s anti-Obama tea parties,” and he “pointed out that ‘tea bagging is not a spontaneous uprising.’” Watch:
Dave Johnson has a very informative post on Seeing The Forest: “A Warning About The Tea Parties.”
I [...]

Ed Schultz to Join MSNBC Line-Up

Last night Keith Olbermann announced on his show that veteran talk show host Ed Schultz would be joining the MSNBC line-up with a new show premiering on Monday, April 6:
“The Ed Show” will air weekdays, 6-7 p.m. ET. The announcement was made today by Phil Griffin, President, MSNBC.
“I am thrilled to have Ed kicking-off our [...]

An AIG Employee Speaks

An AIG employee, not one who got a bonus, but just an average everyday 9 – 5 employee, submitted an essay to MSNBC about working for AIG. It’s an interesting read. It has to be tough for the little folks working for ‘The most hated company in America.’

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Hardball: Chris Matthews vs Ari Fleischer

It’s hard work… defending Bush:
Chris Matthews managed to ridicule “George W. Bush for leaving office with one of the lowest presidential approval ratings in the nation’s history, for creating an economic mess that President Obama had to clean up, and for leading a foreign policy based on “truly frightening” rationales.”
Whew that was some serious fireworks [...]

Grassrooters Storm The Hill

While I have some reservations about the newest form of lobbying by people from the grassroots, although most would puke at my accurate description, it’s starting on The Hill.
Community organizers are the new oilmen. For a change, one of them is in the White House. They walk the marble halls of Congress with a certain [...]

‘Exec Pay Limits’ & ‘Narrow Culture Of Self-Interest’: Obama’s Statement (video)

As Pamela’s post below predicted, President Obama made a detailed statement today. Unlike any effort made previously, the President outlines some of his new package and make a direct effort to limit executive pay, perks and golden parachutes. He says, “We’re taking the air out of golden parachutes.”
It is a dramatic moment in [...]

Capping Executives Pay

Last night I was watching Senator Claire McCaskill on MSNBC’s Hardball, talking about her legislation that proposed a pay limit “to all companies that receive Treasury money.” McCaskill told Chris Matthews that she felt the proposed legislation would get support from the Obama Administration. My reaction to that was that the Obama Administration had damn [...]

Tom Daschle Withdraws His Nomination To HHS

From the Talking Points Memo (TPM):
Tom Daschle, former Majority leader of the House, has withdrawn his nomination to be Health and Human Services secretary. That’s according to a joint White House statement from President Barack Obama and his former nominee.
Obama said Tuesday he accepted the withdrawal “with sadness and regret.” Daschle has been battling for [...]

Joe Biden’s Farewell Speech To the Senate

Many here know I really have liked Joe Biden. His farewell speech, which I accidentally saw from the start on C-Span, was a classic example of Senate culture and Biden unique skills at best. I thought his speech was reflective of the great Senate speeches of the past. It was oratory but without the tight [...]