We’ve been following pretty closely the efforts of the health care industry to beat back reform, but this is the first time I’ve seen a hospital canceling surgeries so doctors could protest. At least that’s according to this tweet from Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI):
To be clear, this is a protest over a proposed new state law in Michigan, opposed by Republicans and supported by Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm, not a direct response to federal health care reform.
From South Carolina comes news that many hardcore Republicans don’t just like Israel. They’ve also become big admirers of my people’s financial practices — or at least their impression of them.
Two supporters of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) say DeMint’s so thrifty and penny-pinching with taxpayer dollars that he’s like the “wealthy Jews” who count every penny to build their wealth.
DeMint called the unwelcome praise for Israelitish financial practices “thoughtless and hurtful.” And the supporters have now apologized.
If there were still any Democrats thinking former VA Gov. Doug Wilder might lend a hand to the struggling Deeds campaign, they probably won’t be too happy about his latest comments.
Teaming together the low-poll-support axis of Paterson and Gillibrand seems to be making decent progress in finding a way to help Rudy Giuliani find a way to get back into elective office.
Organizing For America is about to hit its goal of 100,000 calls to members of Congress today on health care reform.
Earlier we noted the unfortunate incident in which the moderate Republican candidate in the NY-23 special election, Dede Scozzafava, called the police on a reporter from The Weekly Standard after what they considered his overly aggressive questioning. The Standard is supporting the right-wing Conservative Party contender (that’s a party in New York state) candidate Doug Hoffman.
Now the Scozzafava campaign has taken the unusual step of sharing its email correspondence with the Standard as evidence of the publication’s villainy.
Okay, I don’t totally believe the import of the title of the post. But it does show what weird statistics you can come up with when you start asking all sorts of funny questions.
How many Republicans think President Obama loves America? According to this new poll, 27%.
Was the NASA scientist who thought he was spying for Israel in what turned out to be a FBI sting really spying for India?
Former President George W. Bush has signed up to be the “special guest speaker” for one of those traveling arena-size motivational speaker extravaganzas:
Bush’s first “Get Motivated!” gig is next Monday in Fort Worth. He does a second one in December in San Antonio. Read More