U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke is in critical condition after surgery to repair a torn aorta. He was originally hospitalized in Washington yesterday for what initial reports indicated was a blood clot. The State Department issued the following statement a short time ago: Read More
20 year old St. Louis man indicted for threatening to blow up local IRS facility.
Our Brian Beutler explains why those fake non-talking filibusters we’ve seen for two years are the real thing and the genuine article Bernie Sanders filibuster today wasn’t the genuine article.
Joe Miller suffers another legal setback in his bid to derail Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s apparent write-in victory.
Sen. Bernie Sanders all-day speech on the Senate floor has ended after about 8 1/2 hours.
TPM Reader JB is one of our longtime readers, a one-time Republican Hill staffer. I think he sums up pretty clearly the stakes and assumptions behind this tax cut deal …
We should keep in mind President Obama’s governing assumption about the economy, which is that we are in a recovery that is just not proceeding as fast as we need it to.
Obama has said repeatedly that he is “dissatisfied” with the pace of the recovery, that “more must be done,” and so forth. Stylized political rhetoric this surely is, but Obama appears to believe it sincerely. If his assumption is correct, a stimulus — any stimulus, even one he acknowledges is inadequate or based on the wrong kind of measure — that gets us through the next few months until the economy “turns around” and “gets moving again” is a victory.
A snippet of the Obama-Clinton joint presser at the White House. (It’s very weird seeing Bill back in the briefing room.). Watch.
One of the things I like most about Michele Bachman is her ability to reduce journalists to desperate pleading for reality. Here’s Michele Bachman explaining why deficits created by tax cuts shouldn’t be considered deficits and CNN’s John Roberts reduced to begging the case for reality.
President Obama and former President Clinton held a joint press briefing on the tax cut plan in the White House briefing room — or at least it was meant to be joint. Obama soon handed things over to Clinton and left the room where Bill held court just like in the old days. Video soon …
Sen. Bernie Sander (I-VT) is just about 6 hours into his floor-hogging speech in the Senate, opposing the Obama tax cut plan. So may people were watching the speech streaming online that it apparently crashed the Senate servers at one point. But it’s back up now.