Inside Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife Virginia’s new Tea Party advocacy group.
Apparently, Federalist Society uber-lawyer Leonard Leo is in the mix too.
This is the week. And the pressure is on. What are President Obama and Speaker Pelosi doing to round up wavering House Dems to get with the program and vote yes on Health Care Reform this weekend? Our Christina Bellantoni explains what’s happening on the ground, in the air and on the Hill.
Special Bonus: Which way is public opinion trending on Health Care Reform. See the latest here.
Obama speaking now live in Ohio as part of final Health Care Reform push. Watch here.
Meet Darryl Metcalfe, the Tea Party GOPer who could cause the PA GOP some real headaches in November.
Speaking to reporters this morning, Speaker Pelosi hits the key point about Washington and health care reform: “Time is important for us here, because this city is the city of the perishable and every special interest group out there who doesn’t want this to pass — including the entire Republican Party — benefits from any delay.”
This Krugman post is worth a read for the stellar headline alone, but beyond that he does a good job reminding people that conservatives happily touted the “privatization” of Social Security until they realized that term polled poorly. So even though they still stand by the concept, see e.g., the House GOP budget plan put forth by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), they’ve been running from that term ever since.
Is the US Military becoming impatient with the lack of progress on the Israel-Palestinian front? A very interesting piece in Foreign Policy about a briefing CentCom Chief David Patraeus’ people gave to Adm. Mullen a couple months ago about the Israel-Palestinian question and global US interests vis a vis the Islamic world.
The FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted fugitives list is so firmly affixed in the American cultural consciousness that I guess I assumed it had been around as long as the FBI itself. Not so. The FBI launched the Most Wanted list 60 years ago, March 14, 1950, a milestone in the history of public relations. But what began as a PR stunt has persisted so long that the names and faces of those who made the list are an interesting historical artifact.
At a rally over the weekend Rep. Michele Bachmann told the crowd that if Health Care Reform passes they don’t have to pay taxes or follow the new law. See the video.