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HuffPost TV: Arianna On Olbermann: GOP Push For Health Care Repeal ‘Purely About Changing The Subject’
Jul 2nd
Arianna joined Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s “Countdown” Thursday night to assess House Minority Leader John Boehner’s renewed call to repeal health care reform. “This is purely about changing the subject,” Arianna told Olbermann, noting that repeal is extremely unlikely given that Republicans would need to build a coalition strong enough to override President Obama’s veto. Besides, she said, the health care overhaul has only gained popular appeal since its passage in March.
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Loading ...$30 Billion More For Afghanistan: War Funding Bill Passes House
Jul 2nd
WASHINGTON — Despite pessimism that the war in Afghanistan is turning out to be a quagmire, Democrats controlling the House muscled through a plan Thursday to finance President Barack Obama’s troop surge, but only after sweetening the measure with last-ditch moves to salvage their faltering jobs agenda. Long delayed, the approximately $80 billion bill was passed amid building pressure on Democrats to act before their weeklong Fourth of July break begins
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Richard (RJ) Eskow: Social Security Suicide Pact (or, The Folks Back Home on the Old Ant Farm)
Jul 2nd
Democrats won the news cycle yesterday when they slammed John Boehner for calling the economic crisis an “ant.” But winning a news cycle isn’t the same as winning an election. A new poll shows that the President and his party risk political suicide if they join in the mad rush to cut Social Security, and a sleight-of-hand move by the House leadership today suggests they’re considering it.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jim Gonzalez: Leadership, Not Passivity Needed from the White House on Immigration
Jul 2nd
Americans across the country held their collective breath Thursday morning as President Barack Obama spoke out on the issue of immigration reform.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Josh Mull: All politics is local: Al-Qa’eda and the Afghanistan War
Jul 2nd
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan . The views expressed below are my own
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Doug Kendall: For Kagan Hearings, That’s a Wrap
Jul 1st
Last night, my colleague Hannah McCrea and I wrapped up our liveblogging coverage of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. General Kagan completed her testimony yesterday evening, and the last portion of the hearings – witness testimony – was held late this afternoon, following a suspension of all hearings in observance of the late Senator Robert Byrd’s lying in repose in the Senate. As many observers have noted, Kagan’s performance this week was truly a tour-de-force.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Stephanie Cutter: HealthCare.gov Gives Consumers Control of Health Care
Jul 1st
A little more than three months ago, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law and instructed his team to get to work on implementing it so the American people could begin to see the benefits of a consumer-driven market place.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Diane Ravitch: SUPPORT OBEY EDUJOBS BILL!
Jul 1st
Congressman David Obey is trying to save the jobs of tens of thousands of public school teachers who have received pink slips. As chair of the House Appropriations Committee, he proposes to shift money from President Obama’s “Race to the Top” program to keep teachers employed. Specifically the Obey plan would keep teachers working by diverting money that is now going to be spent on charter schools and merit pay
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Kety Esquivel: The President, Immigration and Missed Opportunities
Jul 1st
In an ironic twist, today the President will be talking about immigration reform with “representatives from online media outlets examining several angles of the immigration issue.” However, to the best of my knowledge, perhaps one of the most important segments from the online community (particularly given the topic and its impact on the community) will be absent: Latina/Latino bloggers. I have been trying to probe and ask folks in the beltway who seem to be in the know who will be there and so far there does not seem to be representation from the Latina/Latino blogosphere. Putting it mildly, given all of the work that this segment of the online community has done on this topic, this seems like a missed opportunity
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama Immigration Reform Speech: President To Argue For Immigration Overhaul
Jul 1st
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama hopes to rally new momentum behind the push for an immigration overhaul by explaining why he thinks a comprehensive approach is the only way to fix what he and others say is a system badly in need of repair. Obama was laying out his rationale in a speech Thursday, his first as president on the issue. Obama wasn’t expected to announce any new proposals or policy changes.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Elena Kagan Ducked, Dodged And Weaved Her Way Through Confirmation Hearings
Jul 1st
WASHINGTON — Elena Kagan declined to discuss her passions, demurred when asked anything that might tip her hand on the Supreme Court and invoked her right to remain inscrutable even on cases buried in the past. In short, Kagan did her best to ensure her high court nomination hearing was just the kind of benign event she criticized years ago for lacking “seriousness and substance.” Her dodges over two days of questioning prompted chuckles in the Senate Judiciary Committee as members, keenly aware of what she wrote in 1995, watched her rhetorical dances.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Joe Trippi: Howard Dean Urges Support for Giles Perkins
Jul 1st
Darren Kinnaird, a staffer on the Giles Perkins for Alabama Attorney General Campaign, guest posted on my blog today this important message from Howard Dean: Trippi, you should see this.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rep. Mike Honda: If Conservatives Are Serious About Fiscal Responsibility, They’ll Oppose Afghan Funds
Jul 1st
It is disingenuous to say this is an “emergency” supplemental. The only “emergency” is this: In funding the longest war in history, we are putting America further into debt with China, expanding the deficit, increasing wasteful government spending, undermining our budgetary process, risking Social Security and solidifying debt that military leaders call our number one national security threat
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...House Panel Denies Billions In Aid To Afghanistan Pending Corruption Probes
Jul 1st
WASHINGTON — A key House panel voted Wednesday to cut off almost $4 billion in aid to the government of Afghanistan pending an investigation into charges that Afghan officials are blocking corruption probes and huge amounts of foreign aid is being stolen. The bipartisan move by the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee comes after The Washington Post reported that top officials in President Hamid Karzai’s government were blocking corruption probes of political allies and amid widespread assumptions that Afghan powerbrokers are moving millions of dollars out of the country. The panel’s chairwoman, Rep
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Irene Monroe: Are we not patriots, too?
Jul 1st
This weekend we celebrate July 4 with rounds of festivities marking our nation’s 234 years of independence. But this country’s need to showcase her indomitable spirit of heroism continues to come at the expense of basic freedoms and protections denied to us lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans. While it is true that the House of Representatives voted to repeal former President Bill Clinton’s 1993 “Don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy that bars LGBTQ servicemembers from serving openly in the military last month, and on the same day last month the House passed to repeal DADT, as did the Senate Armed Services Committee, the plight of our LGBTQ servicemembers remained unchanged
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mark Joseph: Election 2010 & The End Of Cristianity
Jul 1st
There’s an old saying that has guided American politics for a very long time, that “where you stand depends on where you sit,” and there is perhaps no better example of it than the recent saga of party-switchers Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter, the Governor of Florida and the lame-duck Senator from Pennsylvania respectively. Crist and Specter were both Republicans who decided to leave the GOP when it became clear that it was the only way they were going to stave off more conservative opponents in Republican primaries
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