NEWS: Speaker Pelosi asks President Trump to reschedule State of the Union address because of the partial government shutdown — Robert Costa (@costareports) January 16, 2019 Good for Speaker Pelosi: Damn. I mean… damn. pic.twitter.com/MZl3nLcEct — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 16, 2019 Pelosi argued that the security issues surrounding SOTU are "completely out of …
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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: It’s the McConnell Shutdown Now
JUST IN: McConnell blocks House bill to reopen government for second time https://t.co/CGQrB66zgU pic.twitter.com/SMLtyXz2RG — The Hill (@thehill) January 15, 2019 So now we need to know what McConnell wants https://t.co/BopP9e3BXF — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 15, 2019 . Cuz we already know why the Oval Office Squatter is pro-shutdown… He meant it when he …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: If It Weren’t for Schaden, I’d Have No Freude At All
Folks, the whole collusion story over three and a half years. All in 140 seconds. We watched it unfold. Remind yourself what we all saw. Watch/Retweet. pic.twitter.com/VAnA0Y0Jzl — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 13, 2019 There are people who don’t pay attention to the news during weekends. Right now I don’t know whether to envy them, …
Sunday Evening Long Read: “‘In the White House waiting’”
Helluva A1 today with bylines from the best in the biz @gregpmiller @costareports @jdawsey1 @PhilipRucker @seungminkim @sfcpoll @danbalz pic.twitter.com/Q0xbhn2VDx — Brooke Anne Lorenz (@BrookeLorenz) January 13, 2019 Too long for Donny Dollhands to read, but presumably he’s gotten Ivanka or Jared to give him the highlowlights. … The president who pitched himself to voters as …
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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Same As It Ever Was
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on protracted government shutdown: "It's a temper tantrum by the president. I'm the mother of five, grandmother of nine. I know a temper tantrum when I see one." https://t.co/5HK6dtw3WJ pic.twitter.com/Qh2lP5IfJH — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 11, 2019 Democrats care about people; Republicans care about “winning”, which they mostly define as …
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Where did the on-exchange user fees go?
Healthcare.gov collects user fees from insurers. Insurers in states that delegate all authority to the federal market place pay 3.5% of premium to Healthcare.gov. Insurers in states that use Healthcare.gov as a front-end but perform significant backend functions pay 3.0% of premium to Healthcare.gov in 2019 and they paid 2% of premium in 2018. Healthcare.gov …
This Crap Again Open Thread: Rep. Steve ‘Pigmuck’ King Will *Not* Be Out-Na… tionalist’d
Last week's Republican language police silent on actual obscenity. https://t.co/jLf7YY8JxA — Schooley (@Rschooley) January 10, 2019 Rep. Steve King to the New York Times: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” https://t.co/wjSsq6jONO — andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 10, 2019 . Glass-half-full take: Iowa’s reached a point of political maturity …