Bill Clinton will address Senate Democrats at their weekly Hill lunch today. Topic: health care reform.
Today in fun word choice, from Politico: “Few political observers or elected officials doubt that an energized GOP has a headwind at its back.”
Perhaps not using “tailwind” was intentional: The GOP boldly striding into the future butt first? Facing a fierce headwind, the GOP simply turned around and pretended the wind was at its back? The interpretational possibilities are endless.
Obama wants to revise the Stupak amendment so that neither side in the abortion debate feels “betrayed” by any change in the status quo. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Holocaust posters, leis, and prop babies, oh my! Jon Stewart recaps the weekend’s health care vote. Watch.
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Fox host says, if you’re despondent, depressed about being shipped overseas, “you take out yourself.” But you shouldn’t take others with you.
Laura Ingraham, on Fox News this morning: “Nancy Pelosi basically did everything except sell her own body to get this bill passed.”
Public Policy Polling just conducted a poll in which they tested how well Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) would do in a GOP primary against an unnamed right-wing/conservative challenger. In other words, how well she’d stand up against a stiff Hoffmanization. I’d figured Snowe was pretty much invulnerable in Maine, even though Republican primary electorates can lean pretty far right. But not so. PPP had the winger candidate crushing Snowe by a 59% to 31% margin.
Not surprisingly, Snowe’s approval among in-state Dems is far higher than among Republicans.
Newsroom sources at the Washington Times say they don’t expect Executive Editor John Solomon to return. He hasn’t come in to the office since the staff shake up over the weekend. And there are some suggestions that problems with the paper’s growth and revenue figures may also be figuring into the on-going controversy.
Murdoch says Glenn Beck “was right” to call Obama a racist.