Elizabeth Warren hits back at President Obama about the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
There are many Democrats who believe that, in political terms, the joke will be on Republicans if the Supreme Court adopts the preposterous claim of the plaintiffs who say that Obamacare subsidies in states without state exchanges violate the law. This is because millions of middle- and lower middle-class people who had a benefit suddenly will have it taken away. I feel like I’ve been to this rodeo enough times to know Republicans have a really high capacity to stick with unpopular policies if doing otherwise would cut against key ideological priorities. In functional terms, the complaints of a few hundred thousand of what Sen. Johnson and his interviewer called “sad sacks” who lose their insurance cuts a lot less than the base’s ideological commitment to opposing Obamacare by any means necessary. But the calculus may be different in some key states – states that did not set up exchanges but are generally blue or purple in presidential elections.
Clarence David Moore lived for 39 years as a free man after escaping from prison in 1976. But he just turned himself in because he can’t get health care without a legit social security number.
Bundy family heads to Oregon gold mine for latest confrontation with Bureau of Land Management.
Following on my post yesterday, Senate GOP leaders have just endorsed a bill extending Obamacare subsidies through 2017. In other words, if the Court adopts the GOP argument and strikes down Obamacare subsidies, Republicans – especially Senate Republicans – really, really, really want to keep Obamacare off the ballot in 2016.
Cat is really out of the bag.
Hater with the base, loving my gay child in Manhattan.
Or, I guess, more like loving my gay child at the Manhattan fundraiser.
Sheriff Arpaio hired a private investigator to investigate the wife of the federal judge overseeing his racial profile case.
The small Canadian town of Tisdale is reconsidering whether it should replace the town’s current slogan “Land of Rape and Honey.”
This afternoon I picked up this weird story about a little town in Saskatchewan that is considering changing it’s town slogan from “The Land of Rape and Honey.” As I noted in the post, “rape” in this case is “rapeseed”, which is an oil seed which produces a huge amount of the world’s vegetable oils in its original and some man-made breeds of the plant. When I saw the headline I put it in one of our TPM chats. There were a couple WTFs and guffaws and then David Kurtz chimes in with something like “Ahhh, rapeseed? The oil seed?” And I’m thinking, Where the hell does he come up with this stuff? Who the hell’s ever heard of rapeseed? What’s rapeseed? Is there like cockwheat that I’ve never heard of either?