TPMDC’s Evan McMorris-Santoro talks to Ned Lamont about how well that Joe Lieberman as a solid Dem on everything but Iraq thing worked out.
Republicans are so pumped with how the Acorn takedown went that they’ve decided to try the same thing with AARP. Not sure they’re going to come up with the same kind of material to work with but they’re giving it a try.
Reformers are all up in arms over Joe Lieberman’s new effort to scuttle health care reform, for good reason. What got far less attention was that between yesterday and today Joe completely changed his rationale for why he thinks the public option is a bad idea. Indeed, explanation two contradicts explanation one. And number two is so nonsensical as to suggest he’s making up the reasons for his opposition as he goes along. Read More
It’s not a good sign when your campaign holds a conference call with reporters less than a week before election day to address the question, “How do you expect to win at this point?” But if you’re Creigh Deeds and running for governor of Virginia, there hasn’t been much good news in a long time.
Chris Collins, GOP county executive in Erie County, New York, was exploring a run for governor. But it looks like his prospects have dimmed significantly since he compared Jewish state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to Hitler and suggesting he might be the anti-Christ a recent GOP county dinner.
Sen. Bayh: I may filibuster health care bill too if it’s not “fiscally responsible.” The public option itself, however, doesn’t seem to be a sticking point for him.
So what happened between the White House and Sens. Reid and Schumer in the week before Reid announced he was backing a public option in the senate bill? Brian Beutler spent the day talking to various players close to the negotiations to try to piece together what each side wanted, what happened at that meeting last Thursday night at the White House and how Reid mad his decision. Here’s his report.
House leaders will unveil their health care reform bill tomorrow at 10:30 AM in front of the Capitol.
Two things you can say about your South Carolina Republicans: they know how to stand up to federal oppression and they know how to party.
Back on Monday, former Republican state representative and now assistant Attorney General Roland Corning was on his lunch break when a police officer found him parked his Ford Explorer at Elmwood Cemetery with an 18 year old stripper from the Platinum Plus Gentlemen’s Club, a bag of sex toys and at least one dose of Viagra.
Local police were apparently on the look out because the cemetery had become a local hotspot for trysts and illicit drugs. Read More
The President made an unscheduled, unannounced trip to Dover AFB overnight to witness the return of the bodies of U.S. troops killed in action, Jake Tapper reports:
The president arrived at Dover AFB at 12:34am after 40-minute chopper ride from the White House. …
At 3:39 am the President walked up the ramp of the C-17 to attend a short prayer given by Major Richard S. Bach, an Air Force chaplain. Obama emerged minutes later, the last in a line of personnel, and stood at attention in the cool night breeze, his hands cupped at his side.
At 3:50 am the flag-draped transfer case–not a coffin or casket–was carried from the plane to a waiting vehicle while all those participating saluted.