Editors’ Blog - 2009
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08.25.09 | 7:02 am
No Limits

Michael Steele tells Fox the VA is “encouraging [vets] to commit suicide.”

08.25.09 | 8:18 am
A Question for Steele

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?!

08.25.09 | 8:29 am
Just So He Knows

Has anyone told Giuliani that New York state doesn’t get to have a foreign policy any more than New York City?

08.25.09 | 8:37 am
The Higher Lobbying

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) calls for “on our knees … prayer and fasting” to defeat Obama’s health care plans.

08.25.09 | 11:25 am
Don’t Know How to Break The News

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.

08.25.09 | 11:43 am
Gang of Six — One Down, Two to Go

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.

08.25.09 | 11:49 am
Bedfellows and All That

Christie enlists Obama and Gordon Gekko to bash Corzine. Maybe feeling the heat a bit?

08.25.09 | 12:07 pm
Unforeseen

Who could have imagined that giving Senate Republicans a de facto veto on health care legislation would have led to this sorry pass?

08.25.09 | 12:19 pm
Times Tough All Over

Top Democratic fundraiser and Hillary Clinton’s 2008 finance chair, Hassan Nemazee, charged with an alleged $74 million fraud of Citigroup.