There’s actually lots I’d like to blog about today, but I’m very busy. One of Sully’s stunt stand-ins has an interesting back-and-forth with Ezra Klein about a Broder piece on Reagan from back in the day. Dave Weigel finds a good Stu Rothenberg piece pointing out the absurdity of a recent Rasmussen poll. FWIW, I …
Archives for March 2010
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
Howie Kurtz’s chat today featured six questions about Tiger Woods, two about the lack of coverage of Jim Bunning’s hostage-taking, one about health care reform.
Speaking Of Health Care
DougJ is right, the Senate has (apparently) resolved their differences (for now) and Pelosi has the ball again. If that’s true then you may still have a chance to help push this thing over the line. Do you know where your Congressperson stands on HCR? Phone and ask. We especially need calls from readers whose …
Feminist icon
The scuttle butt about passing HCR is focusing more on the House than on the Senate this week. My take is that if Nancy Pelosi wants it passed, it passes. She’s a powerful speaker, maybe not quite the LBJ of the House, but certainly a lot stronger than any Congressional leaders of recent memory (admittedly, …
This Strikes Me As Good News
Bye, bye Blanche: Conservative Democrat Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), whose obstinacy during the health care reform process was so frustrating to the progressive community, is officially getting a primary challenge. On Monday morning, Arkansas lieutenant governor, Bill Halter, announced that he would launch a campaign to dislodge Lincoln from her Senate seat. He cited a need …
Open Thread
Sorry for the lack of posting lately, but, feh. BTW- this sums up my reaction to the awesomesauce that was the Olympic ceremony last night: They really set the bar pretty high last night.
Fear factor
One of the memes going around Washington is that Obama’s biggest political problem is that he doesn’t scare anybody (MY here; dickwhisperer here, for example). I think that’s true. Of course, it was also true of the last two Democratic presidents. I wonder how possible it is for a Democratic president to scare anyone. It …