What Didn’t Get Said at the Summit
About halfway through yesterday’s all-day healthcare
summit, Democratic Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina
told another of the many insurance company horror stories that
peppered the proceedings:
I was talking to a man recently who had undergone a
transplant. And when he was done, [...]
Burris, Webb Still Undecided on Health-Care Bill
You heard it here first! On Dec. 9, Matt Continetti wondered if Burris might be the health-care wildcard. Looks like he remains undecided:
Burris, you’ll recall, is one of the junior-most senators, having landed in the Senate shrouded in suspicion after being appointed by disgraced governor Rod Blagojevich. But reputation aside, his vote is one of [...]
Word from the White House: Defenders of the Status Quo Obstructing Progress
It’s no secret that institutions of all stripes focus their communications on certain messages day to day. We thought it would all be a little more open and transparent if we went ahead and published our focus for the day, along with any related articles, documents, or reports.
Supporting article: "GOP Senator Pens Obstruction Manual For [...]
What Obama Needs to Say at West Point
You can’t fight a successful war unless the commander-in-chief is fully committed to it. So President Obama’s chief task in his speech Tuesday night on Afghanistan is to make it absolutely clear that he is.
This won’t be easy. Obama comes from the antiwar wing of the Democratic party that opposes the use of [...]
Taking the deliberation out of the world’s greatest deliberative body
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter held a town hall meeting on health care today in Philadelphia. The audience appears to have been mostly hostile.
In the one exchange I’ve seen, Specter tried to explain how he goes about learning what’s in a 1,000 page piece of legislation. [...]
Piddling Away Greatness
Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — presumably speaking for her boss — doubled down on supporting erstwhile Honduran president and would-be dictator José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (a.k.a. Mel Zelaya) instead of rule of law in Honduras:
A day after failing to land in Honduras to confront the interim government that ousted him in a coup, [...]
