Dismissing TPM’s report that his campaign is treating all its staff as independent contractors and not providing them with health insurance, Scott Brown (R-MA) says: “The people who are working for me, they’re happy.”
As sad day at TPM as Norm Coleman will not run for governor of Minnesota after all.
With the prospects in Massachusetts looking … well, uncertain, what’s Plan B on passing the Health Care bill? As Dems look for a way to avoid the unthinkable, a new plan is surfacing that involves having the House pass the senate bill in toto in exchange for a promise to pass an amending bill later through reconciliation which would include the compromise changes now demanded by the House.
It seems pretty clear now that the plan if Martha Coakley loses tomorrow is to get the House to pass the Senate bill with a promise of revisions in a separate bill, to be passed in the Senate through the reconciliation process. But here’s the frightening question: if Scott Brown wins Ted Kennedy’s senate seat, do all those Democratic votes in the House stay in place? Or does the shock of a Bay State upset jolt enough conservative Dems into refusing to vote for the Senate bill, even after they already voted for the more liberal House bill? Read More
Last night 60 Minutes had a segment on American doctors who have rushed to Haiti to try to treat the wounded and are stuck trying to sterilize rusted medical instruments with rum. It’s a deceptively simple yet very poignant and revealing report from Byron Pitts. Watch (caution: not for the squeamish).
Texas is one step closer to requiring textbook publishers to cover Phyllis Schlafly and Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America as well as offer evidence that Joe McCarthy has been vindicated by history.
The new Research 2000/Kos poll has the Massachusetts Senate race in a dead heat: 48% apiece. Another Research 2000 poll last week gave Coakley an 8-point lead.
As ABC first reported, a U.S. supplier of rifle scopes for the Army and Marine Corps has for several years now been inscribing citations to biblical verses from the New Testament on the scopes themselves, a practice the military denies any knowledge of, but which was apparently known within gun enthusiast circles.