The saga continues. As Washington faces the very real prospect of the Supreme Court striking down all or part of Health Care Reform, Republicans are deciding there are many parts of the bill they want to keep after all. Read More
Reid accuses Cantor of pursuing policy of economic sabotage to game the 2012 election; Boehner replies “Bulls**t” … only with no asterisks.
Never believe day of reports about voter turnout. Turnout in Wisconsin came in substantially under predictions.
We often hear the wishful refrain that if everyone just ignored the birthers, they’d go away.
Well, San Diego voters might have just sent one of the movement’s more notable conspiracy-theorists to a district judgeship.
If you follow politics closely, you probably know by now that Bill Clinton broke dramatically with President Obama on Tuesday and recommended that all of the Bush tax cuts be extended. Permanently? For a few years? Who cares really. All that’s important is that Clinton said some thing that could be construed (if you squinted and cocked your head just so) as breaking from Obama on fiscal policy.
It started with a heavily promoted CNBC interview, Republican operatives pushed the suggestion aggressively, and by the end of the day we had stories like this one from the Chicago Tribune, headlined “Bill Clinton backs extending Bush tax cuts, for now,” distributed with a tweet that read “Bill Clinton breaks from Obama, endorses Bush tax cuts.” Read More
In today’s Crosstabs, why have Mitt Romney’s favorables rebounded so quickly?
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Mitt Romney says President Obama slowed down the recovery on purpose in order to get health care reform passed. Watch.
I always stress that my reprinting a reader email doesn’t mean I necessarily agree with it. This one, as you’ll see, requires restating that upfront. But I’m reprinting TPM Reader HS’s note because I think he’s speaking for what is a real animus or lack of sympathy for public employees unions afield in the electorate in these straightened times. Bracing stuff. That’s what I take from the little discussed victories for public employee pension cuts in two major California cities on Tuesday. But I think it’s foolish to ignore and important to read.
I can think of a few things that the Wisconsin Governor’s recall mean.
Unions, particularly public employee unions, are not that popular.
Yes, Scott Walker is a dick. Yes, I think he wants a right to work state. I tend to side with the Wisconsin Public Employee Unions.
But it is also difficult for me to feel much sympathy or even understand Unions. I received a degree in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate in 1987, and have been in Sales and Marketing for most of the last 25 years in the Tech and CE sector.
From TPM Reader JL …
Obama delayed the recovery? I think Jay Carney better get used to saying “sounds like someone’s been spending too much time with Donald Trump.”. I know he used Trump once already today but really, I don’t think the Trump card can be played too often.