The Salahis crashed Obama’s Pennsylvania speech on the economy, SNL reports.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), today on Fox News: A public option plan would create a “health care gulag.”
The latest out of the high-stakes health care negotiations between conservative and progressive senate Democrats.
Bill Clinton comes out for Martha Coakley in the Mass Senate race.
According to a press release just sent out by the Sestak campaign, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) will appear with and endorse Rep. Sestak (D-PA) at a news conference in Philadelphia tomorrow morning.
The President and Vice President meet this afternoon at the White House with Afghanistan commander Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
A new Rasmussen poll suggests that the Tea Party movement — funded and embraced by the Republican Party — is now more popular than the GOP itself.
TPM Reader BW gets evil …
A truly devious left-leaning independent financier might be well inclined to fund crazed and/or faux “Tea Party” candidates in tight Congressional races in 2010. Help them get on the ballot and siphon off even a modest 1-2% GOP support. Ala the GOPs attempt to fund and aid Green party candidates in 2006 and 2008 in close districts. The D swell made the attempt entirely foolish, however.
I consider myself a civic patriot and would personally hate the idea and would never support it. But I don’t have a guilty conscience about the contemplation – someone far more amoral has probably already considered putting the plan in action. Such is modern American politics: think of the bottom and someone has already beaten you there.
Brian Beutler, on how Joe Lieberman turned the public option fight on its head.
We’re going to be following developments on the health care reform front especially closely this week. We’ve set up a Health Care Wire in the news section to the right there. Plus, we’ll have our usual presence on the Hill, where Brian Beutler is tracking negotiations among Senate Democrats, which is where most of the action will be this week.
In particular, things are expected to come to a head this week on two key sticking points: the public option and abortion. Read More