Attorney General Eric Holder is defending former Solicitor General Paul Clement who resigned yesterday from the law firm of King & Spalding over their decision to pull out of the DOMA defense. Holder compares the move to the smears attorneys suffered for defending Gitmo detainees.
Gov. Jindal is still fixing to sell off Louisiana’s highly successfully state employee health insurance system … and pocket its hefty budget surplus for other purposes. Now the program administrator Jindal canned is speaking out.
Republicans own go-to economist says we need to raise the debt ceiling soon.
I’ve noted several times that when it comes to issues like Medicare and Social Security, establishment journalism is most focused on whether political rhetoric is inflammatory than on whether it might be true. Or put a different way, the details of how key government programs work is of comparatively trivial importance compared to whether the ads a controversy generates are mean. As yet another instance of this, we have the unfortunate example of ABC’s Rick Klein’s report on the new politics of Medicare. Read More
Speaker Boehner says the Ryan plan “transforms Medicare into a plan that’s very similar to the President’s own healthcare bill.”
Only older people are sicker and more expensive to cover and Ryan doesn’t provide the funds for seniors to buy care. Beside that they’re identical.
Obama tells Boehner: Great to hear you want to drop oil subsidies, let’s agree to that right now!
Sen. Franken (D-MN) to hold hearings into iPhone tracking issue.
Dems roll out first campaign ad out targeting Ryan Medicare phase-out plan.
Is Gov. Jindal (R-LA) really moving to privatize his state’s public employee health insurance system to pocket the agency’s big budget surplus to help plug a hole in the state budget?
A new move by the state legislature suggests that’s exactly what he’s doing. Check out our latest report.