The International AIDS Conference convenes next month in DC — the first time in more than two decades that it’s been held in the United States — just as AIDS activists are resigning themselves to chronically weaker support from the Obama Administration than they had originally hoped for.
In Jeb Bush’s appearance this morning with BloombergView, he didn’t just depart on Reagan orthodoxy and earn the scorn of Grover Norquist. He also went out of his way to praise the 1990 budget deal which his father, George H.W.Bush struck with Democrats 22 years ago. That involved a tax increase and for those too young to remember is considered one of the ur-sacrileges on the anti-tax right.
Sure, President Bush is his dad so you wouldn’t expect him to be railing against it. But he went out of his way to praise it as a great act of statesmanship.
The very latest on that bizarre hit and run investigation of Commerce Secretary John Bryson. Authorities in California say they aren’t ruling anything out.
A new study assesses whether Romneycare adversely affected the employment rate in Massachusetts — and extrapolates a similar impact nationwide from Obamacare.
The Commerce Department sends this over:
Secretary Bryson was involved in a traffic accident in Los Angeles over the weekend. He suffered a seizure. He was taken to the hospital for examination and remained overnight for observation. He was released and has returned to Washington. The investigation is ongoing. Secretary Bryson has no public events scheduled for today.
Contrary to earlier reports, authorities have not ruled out alcohol and drugs in Commerce Secretary John Bryson’s hit and run incident yesterday.
One note of caution: Bryson’s conduct in this case appears to have been extremely erratic, which can have many explanations, a number of them scandalous. But it’s worth remembering that sometimes serious medical problems can also be at the root of these cases. We’ll report more as we know it.
Investigators have not ruled out drugs or alcohol playing a role in the bizarro series of car crashes Saturday involving Commerce Secretary John Bryson, TPM has learned.
Commerce Secretary under investigation for felony hit and run.