Sheesh, what has the world come to if you can’t trust the Boston Globe?
Over the last day or so, we’ve been reporting how Mass GOP senate candidate Scott Brown said he was unfamiliar with the “Tea Party Movement”, notwithstanding their campaigning for him and now lots of photos and video of his addressing Tea Party events.
But it seems like the original report in the Boston Globe was just wrong, or at least way overwritten. Read More
It appears that a deal has been struck between labor and the White House (though there are lots of players here, including, of course, the House and Senate) on the excise tax on “Cadillac” health insurance plans. Details still to come. This doesn’t mean a final bill has been agreed to, but it was one of the major sticking points.
These are great days for the Tea Party movement. But could they lose the rights to their collective name?
It turns out that one Tea Partier, Fred O’Neal of Florida who actually had had little involvement with the movement, registered the “Tea Party” name in his state in order to set up his own political party. And now he’s pressing other Tea Party activists in the state to rename their groups because he owns ‘Tea Party’.
And now he claims to have rights to the name across the nation.
The comments by Limbaugh and Robertson about Haiti are “stupid,” Robert Gibbs announces.
We’re getting a better read now from the principles on the deal that was cut to get labor on board with the excise tax it has so vehemently opposed.
Specter opens up on GOP plans to stymie health care reform and Stimulus from the git-go: “The Pressure Was Tremendous On Everybody Not To Participate.”
New Boston Herald poll has Brown 50%, Coakley 46%.
Earlier today a Research 2000 poll had Coakley up by 8. Go figure.
Jon Stewart pops Rachel Maddow (along with Limbaugh and Robertson) for Haiti comments. Watch.
Joe Biden will be in Louisiana today touting administration efforts to assist in Katrina/Rita rebuilding efforts. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.