Based on the latest CBO estimate of the cost of the House health care reform bill, Speaker Pelosi will move ahead with the most “robust” form of public option, Brian Beutler reports.
President Obama, rallying support this evening for health care reform through a webcast to Organizing for America:
Sometimes Democrats can be their own worst enemies, Democrats are an opinionated bunch … y’all are thinking for yourselves. I like that in you, but it’s time for us to make sure that we finish the job here. We are this close and we’ve got to be unified.
Christina Bellantoni has more.
Birther attorney Orly Taitz intends to appeal the $20,000 fine levied on her by a federal judge for her conduct in a birther lawsuit. She claims the judge’s “remarks amounted to nothing short of political lynching, which turned into feast and celebration by the media mob.”
The public is evenly divided on the issue of whether to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, a new poll shows. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Rachel Maddow tackles George W. Bush’s new motivational speaking gig, which we first reported on yesterday. Watch.
The White House seems to have made an affirmative decision to challenge Fox News directly and aggressively. We take a look at the recent series of rhetorical skirmishes in our This Means War! slideshow.
Of course not. But you sure wouldn’t know that if you watched this new web ad from the Christie campaign.
My favorite part of the pitch for the Get Motivated! arena “seminars” that George and Laura Bush have signed up for is the FAQ section on its website.
Down at No. 27 is: “I’m Unemployed. Will this Seminar Help Me?”
The answer, of course, is “YES!”
How down on your luck would you have to be to pay money to go hear George W. Bush explain to you and a few thousand other people how to get back in the work force?
Senate negotiators and the White House will finally get around to discussing how to handle the public option when they meet tonight.
A lot of Republican senators got tagged as “pro-rape” when they opposed an amendment by Sen. Al Franken that would make it easier for defense contractor employees who are victims of rape to get their day in court. But the Pentagon and White House opposed the Franken amendment, too. Rachel Slajda looks at why.