Sen. Leahy rubs Sen. Sessions’ nose in South’s Civil War defeat. Watch.
TPM Reader DV: “How is it that it will take ‘decades’ for history to judge the Bush administration yet we know already that the Obama administration is a failure?”
There are so many layers of local intrigue and dynastic politics, plus national political currents, involved in the Missouri Senate race next year to fill the seat of the retiring Kit Bond that it’ll be worth watching very closely. The latest polling of a hypothetical (but pretty likely) general election match-up between Robin Carnahan and Roy Blunt has them in a virtual tie at 43%-42%.
A new study by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services evaluates the long-term impact of the Stupak amendment on insurance coverage for abortions.
Rudy Giuliani, on a RNC conference call with reporters just now: “I was glad to see Holder say ‘we’re at war.’ I had thought we had virtually stopped being at war with the terrorists.”
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) joins campaign against Muslim interest group.
Biz lobbyist tells TPMmuckraker that if a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored study meant to show that heath care reform will harm the economy ends up reaching a different result, the Chamber should bury the study.
Last week I facetiously congratulated Rudy Giuliani for realizing that the most important thing about fighting terrorism is the catch-phrase we use to describe it. Remember, last year during his failed presidential campaign, Rudy got so obsessed with phraseology that at one point he even rebelled against “war on terror”, spending the latter part of the campaign obsessing about the need to call it “The Terrorists War on Us.”
So today, with Attorney General Holder heading to the Hill and on-going controversy about the administration’s decision to try the 9/11 plotters in New York City, one of the main things Rudy focused on in his conference call with reporters was his relief that Holder used the word “war” about al Qaeda and challenged the White House to show the fortitude to keep using “war” and “terror” in the same sentence.
I’m not sure it’s really right to call Sarah Palin a politician. She’s more like a new breed of non-office-holding politico-celebrity. Or maybe not a new breed. However that may be, we’ve got more evidence of why Sarah Palin is crack for the GOP: gives a real jolt, is fun and addictive, and is really, really bad for your health.
In an interview she just did with the National Review, in the process of explaining why “death panel” was just a figure of speech, she managed to insult (or at least showed she misunderstood the meaning of) the Sainted Ronald Reagan and then called for a Hoffmanite primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham.