This analysis today from Michael Barone, America’s most widely respected election analyst and forecaster: “Possible Epic Party Disaster for Democrats” – a landslide election which, if held today, would be vastly larger than 1994 or 1946 – with up to 155 house democrat seats in play, and up to 20 democrat senate seats which could [...]
Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama’s administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new U.S. health care system.
Facing mounting opposition to the overhaul, administration officials left open the chance for a compromise with Republicans that would include health [...]
If Rep. Betsy Markey (D-Colo.) gets confronted by Tea Party Patriots next week, she’ll counter with a patriot of her own.
Markey’s staff will be handing out a copy of George Washington’s “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior” to everyone at her public events.
It’s her effort to cool down the boiling debate, with a deliberate nod [...]
A plan by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to limit lobbyists’ influence over the $700 billion bailout program has yet to get off the ground — even as the program nears an end.
Just a few hours after being sworn in last January, Mr. Geithner promised to craft rules preventing external influence over bailout decisions. More than [...]
US President Barack Obama on Friday blamed headline-hungry television networks for enflaming an ugly backlash by foes of his top priority effort to offer health care to all Americans.
A combative Obama also accused health insurance firms of holding sick Americans “hostage” as he launched a weekend tour of mountain west states Montana, Colorado and Arizona [...]
They came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free and basic right and not an expensive luxury. Some of these Americans had walked miles simply to have their blood pressure checked, some had slept in [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter has decided to take on Sen. Chuck Grassley. Specter tweeted that Grassley used the phrase “death boards.” Grassley’s not happy.
Specter tweeted:
“Called Senator Grassley to tell him to stop spreading myths about health care reform and imaginary ‘death panels.’”
Then he added:
“Had to leave a message — for now. I will talk to him [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) kept up her Facebook attacks on the White House healthcare reform bill Friday, praising a Senate committee’s decision to drop an end-of-life provision.
She also singled out for criticism a proposal by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an adviser to the president and brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, [...]
NASA doesn’t have nearly enough money to meet its goal of putting astronauts back on the moon by 2020 — and it might be the wrong place to go, anyway. That’s one of the harsh messages emerging from a sweeping review of NASA’s human space flight program.
The Human Space Flight Plans Committee, appointed by President [...]
Both MoveOn.org and the White House are combating the viral campaign against health care by creating their own chain e-mails.
The liberal group sent out a “Top Five Lies” message to their list Tuesday and asked them to forward it, post it on Facebook and re-tweet it on Twitter.
The issues MoveOn is citing:
Lie #1: President Obama [...]
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