To provide some helpful context to the news that Obama slipped beneath the symbolically significant 50% mark in today’s Gallup poll, this poll, also out today, shows that Obama still beats all potential Republican opponents.
Senate ethics committee admonishes Sen. Roland Burris over his “inconsistent, incomplete and misleading” testimony about his dealings with Illinois’ then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Encouraging mass-casualty terror attacks because the clean up will create a lot of make-work jobs?
One of the four ways Republicans say Obama is going to get you killed.
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) announces that he will vote with Dems on cloture to bring health care reform to the Senate floor.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) must have really gotten under Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s skin when he told reporters this morning that the Arkansas senator has made up her mind on tomorrow’s procedural vote on health care reform because he’s already issued a statement walking it back.
I think as long as Sarah Palin remains the King-maker in GOP primary battles across the country, the Dems have something to be happy about.
New developments keep popping through the day in the senate health care bill debate. Check out this page to see all our health care reform debate updates over the course of the day.
Not the first Dem I’ve heard say this. This from TPM Reader EF …
What you say about Palin is certainly true in general, but her likely endorsee in FL – Marco Rubio – is one of the only Republicans in the country right now who really worried me as a Democrat. He’s young, telegenic, polished, Latino in a too-white party, a father of four married to a former Dolphins cheerleader, and politically talented enough to rise to Speaker of the state House before he was term-limited out. Granted, his conservatism is of the ’01-’05 W. Bush vintage, but he worries me as much as any Republican in the country this side of John Thune (which says as much about the Republicans as it does about Rubio, but still). If I had to bet my life savings on who would be the Republican VP nominee in 2016, I’d definitely take Rubio.