From TPM Reader SM …
A question for Mr. Steele. Three months ago I had routine surgery for a hernia and was asked three times in the week leading up to it if I was interested in creating a living will. Was Columbia hospital corporation trying to talk me into committing suicide?!
Has anyone told Giuliani that New York state doesn’t get to have a foreign policy any more than New York City?
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) calls for “on our knees … prayer and fasting” to defeat Obama’s health care plans.
Documents that Dick Cheney had been begging the CIA to release don’t actually show what Cheney claimed they would, but some in the media remain complicit in his deception. Shocking, I know.
Late Update: More on the CIA torture documents from TPM’s Zachary Roth in an appearance today on MSNBC.
Sen. Bingaman (D-NM) becomes the first member of the Senate Finance Committee’s Gang of Six to back “reconciliation”, i.e., pushing reform through on Dem votes alone.
Christie enlists Obama and Gordon Gekko to bash Corzine. Maybe feeling the heat a bit?
Who could have imagined that giving Senate Republicans a de facto veto on health care legislation would have led to this sorry pass?
Top Democratic fundraiser and Hillary Clinton’s 2008 finance chair, Hassan Nemazee, charged with an alleged $74 million fraud of Citigroup.