More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a “choice” between a government-run health care insurance option and private coverage, according to a public opinion poll released on Thursday. A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage point higher [...]
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Ridge Bombshell Will Be Forgotten Just Like Lockerbie
A convicted terrorist has been set free. I don’t expect your average American or reader to be at all moved by the events unfolding today. Where Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only man to ever be convicted of the terrorist bombing of PanAm Flight 103, was released from prison on “compassionate grounds.” Al-Megrahi insisting he [...]
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Meanwhile, Afghan Election Begins Tonight
The Administration is putting out word that it won’t countenance further troop deployments beyond what it has committed this year. But General Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan is predicated on safeguarding the civilian population, and that takes boots on the ground. President Obama needs to weigh whether he can afford not to meet his [...]
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Washington Post: ‘Public Option Wasn’t Intended as Major Focus’
–updated below– For the second time in two days, Mr. Obama did not mention health care on Tuesday, a marked departure from the aggressive public relations campaign he mounted in July and early August. The White House is striving to stay out of the fray, aides said, until the president can get away on vacation [...]
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Quiet, You’re Bothering Someone
Lesson #1 (for the gullible and naive): No politician ever did anything difficult without being pressured. That includes Mr. Obama. Lesson #2 (for the sycophantic and fall-in-liners): Whatever the Administration is saying today, whether from Sebelius, Bill Burton or Mr. Gibbs is due to the pressure progressives are putting on them. This group does not [...]
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Robert Novak, CIA Identity Leaker Dies
The “Prince of Darkness” has died. By the way, Novak reportedly “relished” his title. He certainly earned it. More than anything, Robert Novak will be remembered as being representative of the Bush-Cheney years and the lengths people would go to in order to tar their political enemies. This was particularly true when it came to [...]
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Zakaria Moves Oren to Clarify Israeli Nuke Issue
Asked by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria whether former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton’s recent assessment that Israel would attack Iran before the end of the year was accurate, Oren replied, “I don’t think it’s true, I think that we are far from even contemplating such things right now.” He added that “the government of [...]
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Squeeze Play
–bumped– Downsizing expectations, William Jefferson Clinton offered the pitch. Ken Conrad announces he won’t vote for a public option. Huffington Post details part of what went down. In a speech rallying progressives to make one last major push to pass health care reform, former President Bill Clinton accused Republicans of propagating a campaign of disinformation [...]
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Foreign Policy Notes
UPDATE (2:00 a.m.): Taliban claim in phone call to AP that Kabul car bomb contained 500kg of explosives, via Voice of America (VOA) South Asia Bureau Chief Steven L. Herman. At least 70 wounded after blast outside NATO HQ. Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance [...]
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The Divider
She has no office. She has no official power. Yet what she wrote is the talk of politics, causing crowds to rise up and shout out loud, with everyone from cable hosts to pundits to the President of the United States answering her “death panels” charge. She may be a quitter, but it’s good to [...]
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A White House Email as PhRMA Deal Reported Confirmed
Steve Benen has already highlighted a portion of yesterday’s press briefing that also caught my attention, but which in the context of the White House viral email campaign, as the White House PhRMA deal breaks wide, is even more interesting to draw out. JAKE TAPPER: A couple questions. I don’t know if you think it’s [...]
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Hillary Serves Up Jeb, Tina Serves Up Hillary
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Nigeria’s corruption and electoral problems with the 2000 Florida presidential election recount during a town hall meeting today in Abuja, Nigeria. Answering a question about Nigeria’s recent election, Clinton said, “In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for President [...]
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Holbrooke Uses Pornography Standard for Afghanistan
–updated below– “The military struggle with U.S. troops is not an open-ended event, but our civilian assistance will continue,” the special envoy said. But he added that defining ultimate success would require applying a “Supreme Court test,” a reference to a line by Justice Potter Stewart about identifying pornography. “We’ll know it when we see [...]
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Obama Steady at New Hampshire Town Hall
–updated– At the airport – someone wrote the words “Stop Government Health Care” on the doors of an aircraft hangar in sight of press plane. – Mark Knoller VIDEO: Obama addresses “death panels” and insurance co. rationing v doctor guided decisions. Outside the town hall there were a lot of protesters on both sides, as [...]
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Newt Allies Himself with Sarah’s ‘Death Panels’
Watching Newt Gingrich this morning on “This Week” was like watching someone out of an alternate universe from a previous century, especially when compared to Howard Dean. But Newt’s apparent seduction by Sarah Palin after she made her my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel”, statement lunacy [...]
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