The question in her presser was as follows: What is your feeling about a trigger for the public option as a potential compromise, and what is the feeling of the caucus about a trigger? We’re thinking and deciding about it. And the evidence seems to point, at this caucus that I just went to, that [...]
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Pelosi: Violence Inciters Assume Responsibility
Someone in leadership finally said it out loud. Let it be noted for the record, with the gauntlet thrown down. Wingnuts who incite violence will be responsible. It’s real, with Mickey Kaus getting it, pointing the finger where it applies: I hate to say it,** but doesn’t Nancy Pelosi have a point when she worries [...]
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House Resolution Against Wilson Passes 240-179
The Republican speeches were lame and it didn’t matter that the Resolution was anything but harsh, stating simply that Wilson “interrupted” Pres. Obama. They found a way to whine about it anyway. All Rep. Wilson had to do to keep this from happening was to go to the well of the House chamber to apologize [...]
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Wingnuts Hit Washington
–updated below– via Ben Smith … Beck has voiced support for the marches and will broadcast from Washington Saturday afternoon. He even recorded a two-minute video welcoming marchers to the city though it’s unclear whether FreedomWorks will play it before the march. But he has downplayed characterizations that he’s leading the marches or the movement. [...]
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Pelosi Blinks
–Clyburn update below– Here’s the headline: Pelosi halts effort to sanction Wilson over ‘You lie!’ outburst Democratic leaders were looking into what formal action the House may take against Wilson, whose outburst during the Wednesday night address has rocked the lower chamber. On the list was a move to censure him. But Pelosi dismissed that [...]
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Any Bill Will Do
No, it won’t. Democrats cannot accept a bill that would allow private insurers free reign and no competition. But that’s the way that is being prepared. Matthew Yglesias offers a stunner of a post getting Max’s back. [..] That said, I think a lot of the blog response to this proposal is overblown. There’s just [...]
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It’s Getting Noisy Out There
A health reform bill without a robust public option will not achieve the health reform this country so desperately needs. We cannot vote for anything less. – Congressional Progressive Caucus
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Obama to Address Joint Session of Congress Sept. 9
–updated below– The speech will be on Tuesday. ABC, then MSNBC broke the news. It’s clear that if Pres. Obama doesn’t put the full weight of his office behind moving health care forward immediately after things resume next week, it only gets harder from there. Reuters has the story now too: Obama’s speech, first reported [...]
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Obama Throws Pelosi Under a Bus for ‘Un-american’ Rant
“I think there’s actually a pretty long tradition of people shouting at politicians in America,” White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton told reporters on Air Force One when asked about the comments. – ABC News Well, this was predictable. After yesterday’s op-ed, where Pelosi and Hoyer went out on a very long limb calling [...]
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Obama Mistakes in Marketing Health Care Costly
“If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo,” Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said yesterday during a conference call with conservative activists. “It will break him.” – Alliances Splinter This video brought to you by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), taking advantage of Pres. Obama’s fumbling of the health care reform [...]
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Obama – Congressional – CIA War Breaks Out
In a June 26 letter to Mr. Panetta discussing his testimony, Democrats said that the agency had “misled members” of Congress for eight years about the classified matters, which the letter did not disclose. “This is similar to other deceptions of which we are aware from other recent periods,” said the letter, made public late [...]
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Around the World
–updated– Starting at home, with one lone Republican thinking casting Speaker Pelosi as “Pussy Galore” is “reprehensible, irresponsible and unpersuasive.” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told Politico Saturday: “I thought it was reprehensible, irresponsible and unpersuasive. If we’re going to regain the credibility of the American people, we’re going to have to stop with silly antics [...]
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RNC Tags Pelosi ‘Pussy Galore’ in Video
At the end it says “Democrats Galore.” Imposed with a naked woman behind the tag line. Get it? Subtle it is not. But check out the video at around :40 seconds; a split screen that says it all. “Pussy Galore” is shown with “Starring Nancy Pelosi the Speaker” over “Pussy’s” image. But hey, it’s good [...]
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Poll Finds Pelosi Ahead of CIA
by Paul Szep(Welcome back, Paul!) But not by much: 43% say it’s “somewhat likely” the CIA misled Speaker Pelosi; with 22% saying it’s “very likely.” People are closely watching this story. Sixty-five percent (65%) of voters say they’re following news about Pelosi and the CIA at least somewhat closely. Democrats are less interested in the [...]
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Bush-Cheney, Torture and Iraq
The Republicans want to make sure that they don’t go down on Bush-Cheney torture, so they’ve decided to try to drag Speaker Pelosi down into it. They may have miscalculated because Pelosi is fighting back. The most extraordinary take on the fight that just boiled over comes from Dan Baltz. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s extraordinary [...]
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