Sen. Alexander (R-TN) was so full of it in his argument with President Obama about whether premiums will go up under reform that even the AP says he’s wrong. When they’re calling it, you know it’s gotta be bad.
Obama hit him on it too. See the video here.
Anti-gay protests broke out recently in Uganda in the wake of a controversy over a proposed law that would mandate life imprisonment for gay sex and even the death penalty.
I find it incongruous that during the same Health Care Summit Republicans are simultaneously proposing to abolish Medicare and replace it with vouchers and also claim that they’re opposing Health Care Reform to save Medicare.
You’ve got several members of the GOP Congressional leadership today saying that they believe the Health Care Reform bill is actually unconstitutional: Grassley, Boehner and others.
Not only is the idea preposterous in itself. But like six months ago, Grassley not only believed it was constitutional. It was a policy he supported.
The original state case against the cops accused of shooting unarmed civilians on a bridge in New Orleans just after Katrina swamped the city in 2005 was botched, but now the feds have secured a guilty plea from a police supervisor who admitted to covering up the crime. It’s a script straight from a police drama: planting guns at the scene, writing a bogus police report, and coming up with cover stories for what really happened. Except it’s darker and more disturbing than TV would dare be because it took place in the desperate hours after New Orleans flooded.
Fox News’ Shepherd Smith went off on one of those faux populist tirades his network specializes in. Watch.
The White House says that over the course of the day the White House webcast of the summit served 3.9M streams and peaked at 60k concurrent viewers. By contrast the State of the Union webcast served 1.3M streams and peaked of 85k.
Now, this is clearly not an apples to apples comparison. You can see the State of the Union address on every channel. So there’s not much reason to watch it on the White House feed unless you’re stuck at your computer without access to TV. And even then you can watch it streaming on a bunch of news websites. But that’s still a pretty robust comparison.
It’s certainly not a perfect measure. But over the years I’ve gotten a pretty good feel for how different kinds of political events bump traffic on TPM. And there was a much bigger bump than I would have expected for an event like this.
Let me know whether you’ve come across other metrics that give some sense of how many people tuned in to watch some of this.
Okay, if you’re the scammin’est Governor in these United States and you’re secretly bringing your girlfriend to the big governors bash in DC (and denying it right and left), who do you make sure you get your picture taken with?
I mean, you’ve really got to get your picture taken with the master, Mark Sanford, right? The second scammin’est Governor in the USA.