–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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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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Mike Huckabee Plays President in Israel
“The question is should the Palestinians have a place to call their own? Yes, I have no problem with that. Should it be in the middle of the Jewish homeland? That’s what I think has to be honestly assessed as virtually unrealistic,” he said. – Huckabee says 2 states in Holy Land ‘unrealistic’ photo via [...]
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All Hell Breaks Loose Prior to Afghan Elections
Prior to Thursday’s elections, the Taliban is asserting themselves and proving they can cause plenty of chaos even in Kabul, which is usually mostly stable and well guarded. Carlotta Gall of the New York Times, the most respected reporter on the ground in Afghanistan, reports on an issue that’s being talked about in the election. [...]
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TM-DC Podcast, Democratic Chaos Edition
–updated– [..] But the notion that our president not only does not have any use anymore for a public option, but in fact “will be satisfied” if there is merely “choice and competition” in the market is, well, disgusting. I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically negotiating against himself to [...]
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The Origins of Sean Hannity’s Hate Campaign
There was a lot of commotion recently when it was discovered that Sarah Palin’s “death panels” actually had its roots in a person and right wing group out of the Clinton era. However, it really doesn’t matter in the moment who said what first or where it originated if the President and Democrats take months [...]
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Democrats Take Public Option Off Life Support
“The public option – whether we have it or we don’t have it – is not the entirety of health care reform,” the President said. “This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it. And, by the way, it’s both the right and the left that have become so fixated on this that [...]
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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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READER DIARY: Postcard from the Edge of Insanity
TM NOTE: This is a diary authored by reader Lake Lady that is posted “In the News”. It covers Sen. McCaskill’s recent town hall. This evening the Senator was on “The O’Reilly Factor” saying the same thing Lake Lake describes below. As an aside, I was born and raised in Missouri, so it’s interesting to [...]
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Exploiting End-of-Life, Hyperbole and Sect. 1233
Any column that begins with “Sarah Palin was right, the second time” should give anyone pause. Kathleen Parker is worried and writes about “Easing the ‘Death Panel’ Fear.” Given the hyperbole surrounding addressing the subject of end-of-life, at least Ms. Parker gives us this: For purposes of civil discourse, let’s assume that no one wants [...]
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Violence in Air at Grievance Town Halls
It’s like that Phil Collins song, you can feel it coming in the air at every town hall. Just ask Arlen Specter, who faced a grievance mob today, complete with boos when Specter spoke of Obama’s Americanness. Town halls turned grievance fests with health care only the launching pad for people to act out. “IT [...]
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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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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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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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