Health Insurance lobby AHIP is launching a million dollar ad campaign to ‘set the record straight’ about recent health insurance rate hikes.
Rush Limbaugh was among the conservatives who jumped on the Eric Massa bandwagon yesterday, devoting a chunk of his show to hailing Massa. But it wasn’t that long ago that Massa was calling Rush a “pompous coward” whose show is “destructive to this country.” Maybe Rush found out about that, because on today’s show, Rush has reportedly flipped and is doing all he can to disavow Massa.
In case you missed it, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) and former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt just penned a post at TPMCafe explaining why retooling our carbon-based energy sector for clean growth can spur the kind of investment and job growth that we saw in the telecom industry after the market opening of the early 1990s.
The Dems have hit a bit of an ethics and scandal rough patch of late. But let’s be honest. They’ve got quite a ways to go before they get into GOP 2002-08 territory. To put it mildly. Good of them for pointing that out.
How soon they forget.
Or rather, how soon some Republicans think people will forget all of what happened … what, two years ago?
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Thanks to John Roberts’ comments yesterday I suspect we’re about to go through another round of hand-wringing about how the Supreme Court needs to be more insulated from the political brawls of the day.
Before it begins in earnest, let me make a distinction that will be quickly lost. The courts should be independent and free of political taint, and I’d man the barricades shoulder to shoulder with Roberts to defend that principle. But there’s no good reason to insulate the courts from the rough and tumble of politics and the complex world we live in, protecting them like a fragile flower.
To the extent the Supreme Court has been demystified by modern media and contemporary politics, that’s been a good thing. To the extent that it has lost some its institutional authority, it need not look beyond its own marble walls for the cause.
Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) are jockeying to succeed Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) if he loses reelection in November. That and the day’s other news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Whoever is handling former Rep. Eric Massa’s PR is a crazy person. The only question is whether they were crazy enough to let him go on Glenn Beck’s and Larry King’s shows yesterday in the first place — or recommended against it and went crazy watching Massa self-immolate.
Sample exchange from Larry King’s interview:
KING: It may be silly, but I guess we have to ask it, are your — are you gay?
MASSA: Well, here’s that answer, I’m not going to answer that.
In — in year 2010?
Why don’t you ask my wife, ask my friends, ask the 10,000 sailors I served with in the Navy.
Massa also made the novel argument that groping isn’t sexual. Watch.
Jon Stewart deconstructs Liz Cheney’s ad smearing DOJ lawyers. Watch.