The WaPo made its best guess about which Representatives are still on the fence. Check it out.
[...]Rainforest Action Network has a dramatic protest underway at the EPA HQ in DC this afternoon.
n an attempt to further pressure EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to enforce the Clean Water Act and halt mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR), activists early this morning erected two 20-foot-tall, purple tripod [...]
Pelosi—she’ll fuck you up with one hand while holding a baby in the other. (via Mike Kay in the comments)
[...]Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and Mike Arcuri (D-NY) badly need to hear from any of you who live in their districts.
This could be part of the expected ass-covering that I predicted earlier, in which case it could actually be good news, but I wouldn’t count on that.
Lynch: 202-225-3984 [...]
TPM reports that Kucinich is lobbying holdouts to vote for healthcare reform.
Good for him. He’s been showing some grit and class, along with real concern for his constituents, and I’m re-thinking my take on the guy.
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I hope people keep jamming a microphone in Stupak’s face:
Congressman Bart Stupak, D-Mich, responded sharply to White House officials touting a letter representing 59,000nuns that was sent to lawmakers urging them to pass the health care bill.
The conservative Democrat dismissed the action by the White House saying, “When [...]Rightwing group Americans for Prosperity, a group that really should be called Americans for Prosperity for the Rich since they want to stick it to the rest of us, are lying to West Virginians.
From an email:
Americans for Prosperity Running False Ads in WV
Two fact checker sites calls AFP's' [...]
Asshole racist Steve Levy is switching parties and running as a Republican for New York State governor. You know the drill:
Mr. Levy, 50, the Suffolk County executive, said he wanted voters to see him as “Scott Brown II,” referring to the Massachusetts senator who pulled off an [...]
I take comfort in the fact that things like numbers are considered somewhat important in this debate. Not as important as Rush Limbaugh’s listeners’ phone calls or comity in the Senate, of course. Ezra:
According to a Democratic source, CBO has finished its work and will release the official preliminary [...]
Bart Stupak, still complaining.
Leading a revolt against President Barack Obama’s healthcare legislation over abortion has been a “living hell” for Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.).
The telephone lines in his Washington and district offices have been “jammed” and he’s gotten more than 1,500 faxes and countless e-mails — most of which [...]
In a typically good analysis of the recent uptick in support for the healthcare bill from moderates and liberals, Nate Silver says:
Liberals like the idea of being the scrappy underdog—being the fighter—and Obama, after a strangely aloof performance on the health care bill throughout 2009, has been fighting the [...]
You might not have known who he was. Except that you probably did.
…and the greatest fucking tribute song ever: [...] The Oxford American called this the most beautiful pop song never to crack the Hot 100. I agree.
For those who do research into the stories of our politics, C-Span has just released a gold mine.
They have put years and years of searchable video online. As I poked around I could trace some mentions in Abramoff billing records to Congressional action on the floor. Amazing stuff.
There were [...]
Felix Salmon’s review of the upcoming Michael Lewis book on the financial collapse is a great read:
On January 31, 2007, a broad range of CDO spreads started to widen, dramatically. The long-feared meltdown was upon us all—not that most of us knew it, at the time—and a very small [...]
The yearly American tradition of people with the name Pietrazola, Weingarten, Yerkovich, Liu, Gonzalez, and so on wearing green to show solidarity with an ethnic group they are not a member of, only as a pretext to swill shitty green beer until they vomit through their noses onto the shoes [...]
Chris Bowers dissects Ben Smith’s assertion that the passage of HCR will vindicate Rahm:
The last tow months clearly followed Andy Stern’s recommendation, not Rahm Emanuel’s. Or really, everyone’s advice except Rahm Emanuel’s:
Senior Congressional aides said that lawmakers and the White House were increasingly focused on a plan by [...]
I know we’ve been punching hippies a lot lately, but I do have something positive to say about the FDL crowd: compared to the libertarians, they are steely-eyed practitioners of realpolitik.
Since this weekend’s drug-related killings in Mexico, I’ve been watching the Reason blog for any hint that they’ll tie [...]
I was really good and didn’t read McMegan for a while, but for some reason or another, I started up again. Today, Megan reacts to the following video:
Basically, teabaggers and health care advocates were on two sides of a street each doing their thing about health care reform, and a [...]
As if relations between Israel and the United States weren’t icy enough lately, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law, Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi, has now publicly called President Barack Obama an anti-semite on an Army Radio program:
It’s not that Obama doesn’t like Bibi. He doesn’t like the nation of Israel…
When [...]
Norman Ornstein (in an excellent post) asks:
That strategy, then decried by the House Democrats who are now using it, and now being called unconstitutional by WSJ editorialists, was defended by House Republicans in court (and upheld). Dreier used it for a $40 billion deficit reduction package so that his [...]
