“How’s it been? Like a living hell.” – Rep. Bart Stupak Poor Bart Supak. Yeah, women whose privacy rights are targeted by a religious zealot tend to take that very personally. However, Mr. Stupak must be positively thrilled that he gets to play the martyr. It’s the starring role of his political lifetime. And just [...]
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How a Bad Bill Becomes Historic
“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.” – Democratic Party Platform of 2008 Congress today thinks its supposed to do the Executive Branch’s [...]
Sarah Palin Beats Robert Kagan to the Talking Point
Robert Kagan writes today: This administration pays lip-service to “multilateralism,” but it is a multilateralism of accommodating autocratic rivals, not of solidifying relations with longtime democratic allies. Sarah Palin said it first, though it took her fewer words to do it, while primarily stressing the “reset button on our relations with Israel,” using “world’s worst [...]
How Far Will Democrats Go?
cross-posted on Huffington Post The final push for passage of health care legislation has brought out the worst in many Democrats. It’s been a depressing spectacle to watch, with the latest NBC News/WSJ poll a testament; especially for those who want health care reform, but find little reform in the current bill to trumpet mainly [...]
Washington Post Sides with AIPAC
–bumped– Mr. Hiatt’s love note op-ed today trying to bolster Prime Minister Netanyahu is one for the books. Coming just before the AIPCAC conference, it continues the drum beat from the elite right who refuse to accept that the Israeli settlement issue is a major challenge to Pres. Obama and his entire administration as he [...]
Deem then Dump, the ‘Slaughter Rule’
House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday. Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes [...]
Speaker Pelosi’s Where the Boys Are Roundtable
–updated– Speaker Pelosi held what is being called “a small roundtable with bloggers today.” Greg Sargent has a good report on it. One problem. He doesn’t mention that there were no women in attendance. Brian Beutler doesn’t mention it in his reporting either. Matthew Yglesias at least names (some of) the men in attendance. I’ve [...]
Passing The Public Option Buck While Hitting Women
Let’s play a game, pass the public option buck… on the backs of women. Nancy Pelosi has already allowed Bart Stupak to become the Henry Hyde of health care. As I’ve been writing for months now, Democrats with a majority and the presidency have chosen to make women’s full reproductive health care a bargaining chip, [...]
Another Supreme Court Justice Plays Politics, this Time for his Tea Party Wife
This is the tale of the demise of the Supreme Court’s reputation, but also it’s rise as a political beast. It started well before the latest Clarence and “Ginny” Thomas incident. The LA Times reported on Sunday that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has created Liberty Central Inc., a non-profit, “non-partisan,” Tea [...]
Karl Rove’s Courage and Consequence: Less Memoir Than Hoax
I have the distinct pleasure to have interviewed Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame, two people I consider American heroes. So, when Karl Rove’s memoir was published, I obviously was very interested in anything Joseph had to say about it. I’m pleased that he, once again, has allowed me to publish his writings on TM.com, which [...]
Meg Whitman Invites Reporters, Won’t Allow Questions
We need more women to run for office. What we don’t need are female candidates like Meg Whitman, who invited reporters to evidently watch her work, but refused to let them ask questions. Her behavior in this clip is childish, as she giggles and pauses, clearly not knowing what to do when her briefing/photo-op ends [...]
Democrats Should Primary Bart Stupak and Dennis Kucinich
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As the Democrats await news from the CBO, Republicans plot to divide Democrats among themselves, something I wrote about this six days ago. With a lot still in the air on health care, the bottom line for the Democratic Party simply that they [...]
Glenn Beck on Massa: ‘I think I’ve wasted your time’
–updated– The allegations surrounding the former lawmaker date back at least a year, and involve “a pattern of behavior and physical harassment,” according to one source. The new claims of alleged groping contradict statements by Massa, who resigned his office on Monday after it became public that he was the subject of a House ethics [...]
New Poll Reveals National Security Trouble for Democrats, Economic Confidence Deficit for Obama
On national security, the poll found that 50 percent of likely voters prefer Republicans, while only 33 percent prefer Democrats. It’s the return of a “security gap” that all but vanished in 2008 because of Obama’s popularity and Bush’s mishandling of Iraq, Bennett said. – Politico Here we go again. Democrats are once again losing [...]
Tough Gal, Kathryn Bigelow, Makes History
“Now we need to elect a wom(a)n to the US presidency!” – Margot Grimmer (via Facebook) Well, it’s not the presidency, but it’s history none the less. The Academy tired of giving it to the guy with all the muscle, choosing a female who built her machine one brick at a time against all odds [...]
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