Getting you signed up for their astroturf campaign to keep making billions skimming off government guaranteed student loans.
The issue of the day at the White House is health care reform. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney just can’t stop talking about how much less safe Barack Obama is making America. And while he’s at it he floats the prediction that in 20 or 30 years, Bush administration policies will be seen as “one of the great success stories of American intelligence.” And finally Cheney weighs in on the big question of who’s the better Republican: Colin Powell or Rush Limbaugh?
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By definition, Dick Cheney is about government secrecy before pretty much any particular work of specific evil. But with his on-going round of aggressive public appearances he not only seems to be inviting a public inquiry into Bush administration anti-constitutional practices — as in tempting fate — but actually inviting it — in the sense that he really seems to be pushing for it to happen. In his interview this weekend he seemed to say that he’d be happy to testify under oath about his torture policies. And intentionally or not, he’s the one moving the ball forward on the release of various classified documents detailing torture practices.
Ezra is feeling curmudgeonly about today’s announcement by the health care industry that it’s going to “commit” to cutting $2 trillion in costs over the next 10 years. And for good reason.
Mitt Romney: Keeping the world safe for democracy one golf shirt and water bottle at a time.
At the White House correspondents dinner over the weekend, Obama gave RNC Chair Michael Steele a gentle jab — or, as Steele described it, “It was good love between two brothers.”
Like us, you probably didn’t get an invite to the White House Correspondents Dinner. But, did Wanda Sykes hurt Rush’s feelings? Were there too many terrorist fist-bumps? And why did Bill O’Reilly seem so sad and forlorn about the festivities. All that and more in our special TPM White House Correspondents Dinner Slide Show.