Do we need comprehensive health care at all? Of any type, left or right? No, says Michael Steele.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) remains the only major/high-profile Louisiana pol not to denounce or speak out on JP Keith Bardwell, the Justice of the Peace who refuses to marry interracial couples. Jindal and Landrieu have already said he should go.
Corzine trying to distract voters by bringing popular national Dems into the state to campaign with him.
In other contexts this wouldn’t be a bad angle for Christie. But there seems to be widespread agreement that despite the manifest unpopularity of Corzine’s tenure as governor, Christie’s the one who won’t discuss specifics or policy particulars in the campaign. So he seems ill-equipped to make this argument.
We’re still trying to get the exact details. But the Chamber of Commerce this morning was apparently the victim (if you can call it that) of an elaborate hoax in which it was claimed that the Chamber had decided to go along with robust Climate Change legislation. Reuters seems to have fallen for it. And as we speak the Times and the Post both have wire stories up reporting the Chamber’s dramatic shift. More shortly.
Late Update: The chamber confirms it was punk’d. We’re nailing down the details on who was behind the hoax.
Later Update: Read the fake press release announcing that the Chamber of Commerce had suddenly gone green.
It is our somber duty to inform you that four Republican members of Congress appear not have the courage of their own shameless convictions. You’ll remember, last week four GOP members of the House — Reps. Broun, Shadegg, Myrick and Franks — came forward to announce a conspiracy to infiltrate secret Muslim intern spies on to key committees on Capitol Hill. The four said that in addition to alerting the Justice Department and the IRS they were asking the House Sergeant at Arms to investigate the threat.
We have, of course, been closely monitoring the story. But as of today, none of the four have actually brought the matter to the Sergeant at Arms. The office of Sue Myrick, the apparent leader of the group, told us that she plans to bring the matter to the Sergeant at Arms in the next few days but did not explain the delay.
Okay. We’ve confirmed who was behind the Climate Change hoax pulled on the Chamber of Commerce. Find out who.
On a conference call a few moments ago, Sen. Baucus told reporters that a ‘public option’ is still very much a live option for the final health care reform bill. They just need to decide what ‘public option’ means.
You may remember earlier in the year when Florida Gov. Charlie Crist appeared with President Obama at an event drumming up support for the stimulus bill. But an increasingly strong challenge from conservative primary challenger Marco Rubio seems to have reshuffled Crist’s priorities.
Today he’s out with a new radio ad attacking Obama’s plan to “spend our way into prosperity or tax or way into growth. I say its time to take some Florida common sense to Washington. Let’s cut federal spending and let you decide how to spend your own money.”
One of the big lessons of dealing with a political scandal is that you want your first story to be one you don’t have to drop completely after two or three days. But that’s what’s happened to Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) and his piggybank non-profit, the Frontier Foundation. Frontier has raised over $800,000 for scholarships for deserving youth and managed not to award a single scholarship in its six years of existence.
Last week Buyer’s spokesperson claimed, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that Frontier wasn’t connected to him. But now he’s admitting that for all intents and purposes he controls it. And a lot of the quarter million the outfit has spent so far seems to have gone to golf junkets with political contributors.