There must be something wrong with me. Because I’m starting to find the Leno-O’Brien feud fairly compelling. And the weird thing is that it’s actually been a long time now since even watched late night TV. And when I did, I was a Letterman man.
Also somewhat upsetting is that in his press release here, Conan says he’s been on the air for 17 years. This is shocking in itself.
Where do black people get off thinking they know more about racism than Republican talking heads and strategists?
New poll from Rasmussen: Coakley 49%, Brown 47%.
One thing that emerged from yesterday’s Massachusetts senate debate is that while Republican Scott Brown clearly wants to filibuster the Health Care bill on final passage, he doesn’t seem clear on why he opposes it. In last night’s debate one of his arguments was that since Massachusetts already has the equivalent to the federal bill within the state, why do people from Massachusetts need to help provide it for the rest of America. Does that make any sense? I think if Dems look a little more closely at Brown’s series of positions on Health Care reform they’ll see some good grist for attacks.
Next, is that the end of Health Care reform if Brown pulls out a win?
Not necessarily. The Democrats do have the option to take the senate bill, have the House pass it verbatim and then bring it to the president’s desk. There’s no constitutional or parliamentary impediment to doing that. Whether Nancy Pelosi could get her caucus to do that, that’s another matter. But there is this alternative to getting 60 votes in the senate again.
Grijalva: New compromise on “cadillac tax” is a good start. But it’s not enough.
Charlie Rangel says House/Senate negotiations are at an impasse. “We’ve got a problem on both sides of the Capitol. A serious problem,” Charlie Rangel tells Roll Call. Another senior Dem says no progress has been made at all. And they probably won’t have a bill for the president until February. This article in the AP confuses me even more, suggesting the negotiators may drop the mandate for large employers to provide coverage and some other points about the exchange system that don’t even square with my understanding of the two underlying bills.
All the details aside, are we really serious about this? Are they going to fumble this ball at the five yard line? February? March? Why not May?
The AP mobile alert I got this evening read: “Haiti Capital largely destroyed in quake.”
Pelosi and Reid head to the White House this morning for some high-level negotiations with the President on health care reform. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Sarah Palin’s debut as an “analyst” on Fox News last night consisted of her defending herself against the recent charges about her dreadful lack of preparation for the 2008 campaign.
The photos emerging from the devastation of Haiti are themselves devastating:
