Blue Cross/Blue Shield in North Carolina confirms to TPMmuckraker that the state attorney general has sent the insurance giant an “inquiry” about its recent mailer and robo-calls opposing the public option.
You knew health care reform has death panels, rationing, no cancer tests and you have to get most medical exams at the DMV. But now it turns out it will also take away your guns.
With so much happening in the world, I hadn’t given too much thought to Lou Dobbs’ sudden departure from CNN. But taking stock of it now I had not considered the boon it is for people in the political mockery business — and that’s not nothing in these uncertain economic times. Read More
President Obama today will pardon a turkey named Courage. The White House had some fun with a spoof video, saying after an “appointment with destiny,” he would be “a free bird.”
Watch it here.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) announced who he was appointing as the new lieutenant governor last night … on Jay Leno’s show. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
The White House will be releasing more visitor log names — about 1600 of them — later this afternoon.
One of the remaining threads of the 2007 US Attorney scandal is the case of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D), who was convicted in trial rife with evidence of politicization and prosecutorial misconduct, with a lot of at least circumstantial (probably more) evidence of Karl Rove’s involvement hovering in the background. Siegelman was ordered released pending appeal in March 2008 and this month the Obama Justice Department argued that in a new legal filing that the Supreme Court should not consider Siegelman’s appeal.
TPMMuckraker’s Justin Elliott talked to Siegelman yesterday about his reactions to the Obama administration’s position on his case.
No. This isn’t a joke, at least not an intentional one. The new would-be politician Lou Dobbs is coming out for “amnesty” and rebranding himself as the best friend Hispanic immigrants could ever hope for.
I was just looking at this run-down of recent polls by Tom Jensen at Public Policy Polling. The upshot is that while it seems extremely unlikely Republicans could regain control of the senate next year, it’s not impossible and they look well positioned to make a big dent in the Dems’ majority in the upper chamber.
Most of this has to do with the factors we know about — a bad economy, a charged up right-wing, President Obama’s decline in popularity. But looking more closely at the races something else stood out to me: just how many of the vulnerable seats are ones where bad or questionable picks by Democratic governors have put Democrats in an unnecessarily weak position. Read More