Specter opens up on GOP plans to stymie health care reform and Stimulus from the git-go: “The Pressure Was Tremendous On Everybody Not To Participate.”
We’re getting a better read now from the principles on the deal that was cut to get labor on board with the excise tax it has so vehemently opposed.
The comments by Limbaugh and Robertson about Haiti are “stupid,” Robert Gibbs announces.
These are great days for the Tea Party movement. But could they lose the rights to their collective name?
It turns out that one Tea Partier, Fred O’Neal of Florida who actually had had little involvement with the movement, registered the “Tea Party” name in his state in order to set up his own political party. And now he’s pressing other Tea Party activists in the state to rename their groups because he owns ‘Tea Party’.
And now he claims to have rights to the name across the nation.
It appears that a deal has been struck between labor and the White House (though there are lots of players here, including, of course, the House and Senate) on the excise tax on “Cadillac” health insurance plans. Details still to come. This doesn’t mean a final bill has been agreed to, but it was one of the major sticking points.
Sheesh, what has the world come to if you can’t trust the Boston Globe?
Over the last day or so, we’ve been reporting how Mass GOP senate candidate Scott Brown said he was unfamiliar with the “Tea Party Movement”, notwithstanding their campaigning for him and now lots of photos and video of his addressing Tea Party events.
But it seems like the original report in the Boston Globe was just wrong, or at least way overwritten. Read More
The Morning Joe crew was having some fun today with Sarah Palin’s inability to identify her favorite Founding Father without some prodding from Glenn Beck. But listen here at about the 1:00 mark, does Mika Brzezinski really chime in that her pick would have been Lincoln? Say it ain’t so, Mika!
No Democrat is polling very well right now in the Nevada Senate race.
