The NYDN says Rudy will announce tomorrow that he won’t run for senate next year. Which is pretty good news for the NY Dems and Sen. Gillibrand since he was running way ahead of her in the early polls.

Is Rudy’s decision not to run for senate terrible news for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand? That’s what one TPM Reader says. And when I think about it, it’s a pretty good argument. Outside of New York City in the 1990s, Rudy’s proven to be the electoral glass jaw of all electoral glass jaws … Read More

Perhaps in more than one sense.

Harkin: I thought White House was lobbying for the Public Option.

Guess I was wrong.

House braces to accept and pass senate bill.

Remember David McKalip? The right-wing Tea Party activist and doctor who got caught this summer sending out that racist anti-Obama, anti-health care reform email with Obama as a witch-doctor. After bowing out of the health care debate and then unbowing out, he’s now back appealing to progressives to make common cause against the senate bill.

Freshman Dem Rep. Parker Griffith (D-AL) is reportedly about to announce that he’s switching parties and joining the GOP. Griffith ran and won the open seat left vacant by conservative Democrat Bud Cramer.

Guess he’s probably a no on health care.

The plane shudders a lot as you approach the sound barrier.

We are clearly, finally in the health care reform bill end game. And we’ve got our reporting team fanned out across the scene, literally and figuratively, reporting out various aspects of the story for you. But there are a couple aspects of the story that seems most key to me now and which I want to flag your attention to. Read More

A possible speed up of implementation seems to be coming into focus as a key arguing point in the upcoming effort to reconcile the House and Senate bills.