They’re upping the ante: Dems go on the record calling out the GOP for intentionally trying to sabotage the economic recovery.
National Labor Relations Board proposes new rules to speed up the process for holding votes for union representation.
Expect a fight on this one.
Netroots Nation is taking steps to make sure RightOline doesn’t crash the party next year. They may not be able to keep them out of Providence, Rhode Island next year for NN 2012. But they’re taking steps to keep them out of their hotels and ballrooms.
Aaron Sorkin, writer of ‘The Social Network’, unfriends Facebook.
A few moments ago, I saw some tweets from MSNBC’s Chuck Todd noting that while most politicos’ responses to the Obama speech have been somewhat muted and hedged (on both sides of the aisle) the big stand out was former Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), who responded with a MacArthuresque paean to victory. Pawlenty told Bill O’Reilly: “I thought his speech tonight was deeply concerning. Look how he phrased the outcome of this war. He said we need to end the war ‘responsibly.’ When America goes to war, America needs to win.”
The merits of the remarks are one thing. What it tells us about the GOP presidential race is quite another. Read More
Top survey methods expert calls McKinsey health care reform ‘study’ the equivalent of a push-poll.
Check out the Solar Impulse, an experimental, long-range solar-powered aircraft, that is one of the main attractions at this year’s Paris Air Show.
One basic critique of online news is that it segregates readers, hiving everyone off into their own little niche based on tone, ideology, length of articles and so forth. And it seems something similar is happening in the Republican presidential primary process. All the plausibly mainstream Republican candidates — first Romney, now Huntsman — are deciding to bail on the Iowa caucuses entirely and opting to make their first stand in New Hampshire, where a more libertarian and less socially coercive style of conservatism has historically reigned. That’s going to leave Iowa a cockpit of right-wing fury, but worth considerably less because some of the biggest contenders won’t even be playing.
Don’t be too quick to see Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s withdrawal from the Joe Biden-led debt talks this morning as a sign the parties are at an “impasse.”
The read we’re getting is that this could be merely an indication that the emissaries to the talks have gotten as far as they can get and that the remaining heavy lifting is going to have be done by the principals: President Obama and Speaker Boehner.
If that also puts Boehner instead of Cantor on the hook for agreeing to tax increases … well, that’s probably just icing for Cantor.