Mitch McConnell concedes HealthCare.gov will eventually be fixed and labels calls for Kathleen Sebelius’ resignation a “distraction.”
New radio ad by Mitch McConnell’s Tea Party challenger features clips of Democratic Sens. Reid, Durbin, and Schumer praising McConnell for helping to end the government shutdown.
There’s a lot of backstory to today’s showdown in the Senate over President Obama’s nominees to DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Sahil Kapur reports on much of it here. There’s no question that the showdown implicates the filibuster, or the abuse thereof by minority Republicans. We have more on the historical trendlines on the filibuster of judicial nominees here.
But there’s more to this particular face-off than the usual opposition to judicial nominees or the fight over whether the use of the filibuster has crippled the Senate. In this case, the underlying battle is just as if not more important than the supposedly larger issues it implicates.
When it comes to the history of judicial filibusters, it seems that Democrats may have started it, but Republicans have perfected it.
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Edward Snowden has taken a tech support job at a major Russian website.
This is out of the blue. Here at TPM or at least at my desk we’d basically forgotten about crackhead Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto. Basically a bad memory when we thought Canada really had it in him/her? to really roll in the international scandal world. But after all that, maybe it’s actually going to happen. The police now have the goods, include THE TAPE.
So here’s the deal.
One of the most frequent questions we’ve gotten about the relaunch of TPMPrime is why it’s not available yet on our smartphone mobile site. Well, it’s about to arrive. More after the jump.
There’s been so much misinformation swirling about plan cancellations and rate hikes (along with a lot of these that are real and affecting certain people adversely) that it is kind of hard to keep up. But TPM Reader JP focuses our attention on something that I think he is correct is getting very little attention …
The chart you need to see to understand the Obamacare ‘rate hike’ story.