Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) twitters on Obama’s White House remarks:
Obama speech on healthCareReform Absolutely nothing new Waste of time saying we are going to get that done Baucus and I know that But doRITE
Worries me that Grassley and Baucus think they have it all figured out.
Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS): If health care covered abortions, Obama’s mom might have aborted him.
Everyone who’s yapping about the CBO chief’s comments about health care costs, should read this piece by Jon Cohn. Another one of those cases where — shockingly — it really helps to understand the policy details and not just the political atmospherics.
Remember this?
President George W. Bush signed into law Thursday the first major piece of legislation of his presidency, a $1.35 trillion tax cut over 10 years.
Of the six senators begging President Obama to slow down health care reform, four of them — Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Susan Collins (R-ME) — voted for those huge Bush tax cuts. Read More
As a two-year-old, so the family story goes, I would ask my mother to hang a map on the wall behind me while I shuffled papers in my small hands at a desk, pretending to be Walter Cronkite. Around that same time, maybe a little later, when I was visiting my grandfather’s farm implement store in the Bible Belt, one of the mechanics in the shop was left dumbfounded when he asked me what my favorite TV show was, and I said, apparently without hesitation, “Walter Cronkite.”
I’ll stipulate that those anecdotes, which I have no direct memory of, probably say more about what a hopelessly geeky kid I was than they do about Cronkite or his influence. But it does give you a sense of his place in the American home in the 1970s. Read More
Gov. Mark Sanford writes a guest column in The State apologizing, pledging, et al.
In recent weeks, over at TPMMuckraker, we’ve been covering the White House’s firing of CNCS Inspector General Gerald Walpin. At first it looked like a pretty iffy decision by the White House. But subsequent information made it seem like Walpin had no leg to stand on, the board of the organization itself just revolted against his incompetence and bizarre behavior.
Now he’s suing the White House to get his job back.
For background on the story, here’s our on-going coverage of the story at TPMMuckraker.com.