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Obama and GOP Senators: Trading Complaints for Debates
By David Corn - Politics DailyOn Tuesday, President Obama jaunted up to Capitol Hill to attend the Senate Republicans' weekly private get-together. He had come to discuss legislative priorities for the rest of the year -- which in congressional terms is rather short. You might have heard that there's an election in November, and legislators up for re-election will be spending much of the summer and fall in their home states doing what they can to keep from joining the ranks of the unemployed. Still, there are plenty of items on Washington's to-do list: immigration, energy legislation, a Supreme Court nomination, and more. ...
Democrats Still Short of Votes But Predict Health Bill Will Pass
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAfter months of deadlines that have come and gone, White House officials and congressional leaders expressed confidence Sunday that they will get the votes they need this week to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill, but they conceded that they are not there yet. At the same time, Republicans renewed charges that President Obama and Democratic leaders were "arrogant" and "tone deaf" in trying to push through legislation the country doesn't want, and warned that passage of the reform package would not only wreak havoc on the health care system but would be a disaster at the polls for ...
Nancy Pelosi and Lamar Alexander on ABC's 'This Week'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyABC'S "THIS WEEK" FEBRUARY 28, 2010 SPEAKERS: ELIZABETH VARGAS, HOST REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER, R-TENN. [*] (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) VARGAS: Good morning, and welcome to "This Week." The health care summit. Did it make any difference? OBAMA: I hope that this isn't political theater. VARGAS: The parties came together... CANTOR: We just can't afford this. VARGAS: ... but they couldn't bridge the gap. So what's next for health care reform? Questions for our headliners. PELOSI: This will take courage to do, but we will get it done. VARGAS: House ...
Opinion: 'Not Factually Accurate'? Who Knows
By John Merline - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- One of the testier moments of the health care summit was revealing in several ways, but mostly because it helped make clear why the public is so turned off to the whole health care reform debate. Even simple things get extraordinarily complicated. The moment in question involved what should be a seemingly straightforward point of fact. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., at one point said that the Senate reform plan would raise premiums for people buying insurance in the individual market. Not so, said President Obama: "It's estimated by the Congressional Budget Office that the plan ...
Top Moments of the Health Summit
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 25) -- Political theater doesn't get more dramatic than today's bipartisan summit on health care. But who has six hours on a weekday to tune in? AOL News does. Watch this space for a rundown of the very best -- and worst -- moments you won't want to miss as we watch the Blair House project so you don't have to. HOUR 7: What Have We Learned Today? An hour after the summit was scheduled to end, the president states the obvious -- "This has been hard work" -- and thanks the gathering for conducting themselves "in a civil tone." He then, like the college professor he once was, ...
Health Care Bill Still Faces Huge Hurdles in the Senate
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThere seemed to be enough lawmakers on the Sunday news shows the day after a major health care reform vote to make up a quorum, but the one clear message that emerged was the long and difficult road the legislation has to go in the Senate. ...
Boehner: White House Hardball 'Beneath the Presidency'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHouse Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio Thursday became the latest Republican to criticize what he sees as the new, hardball tactics that the White House is employing to strike back at critics of President Obama's agenda, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, doctors and Fox News. "It really does look to me like Chicago-style politics, where they're trying to demonize their opponents and do everything they can to make them distasteful, when in fact the problem is what they're offering to the American people," Boehner said. "To resort to these kinds of tactics really is beneath the office ...
So Which Senators Didn't Want Credit Card Reform?
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyYou've probably read that the both the House and Senate passed credit card reform legislation this week -- and by sweeping margins. The House vote was 361-64, which was impressive enough, until you compare it to the Senate, which voted 90-5.In fact the margin was so wide in the Senate, it had a lot of folks wondering who out there didn't think it was a good idea to eliminate double-cycle billing and predatory rate hikes on the most vulnerable Americans. Heck, even Sen. Tom Coburn (R-NRA) voted in favor of the bill-- albeit only after amending it to usher handguns into national parks.Well here ...
The 1st Annual Veepstakes Hypothetical Awards
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Hill newspaper asked 97 Senators this question: "If you were asked, would you accept an offer to be the VP nominee?" This sounds like a pretty simple question. Vice POTUS is probably the best job you can get without having to do anything to earn it. But these Senators act like they've been posed some mystical Zen koan, along the lines of the job interview trump card, "What's your biggest weakness?" (I care too much) I'm not going to list all 97, but I encourage you to, and pick out your own favorites. Instead, I am going to hand out hypothetical trophies to a few of the most deserving ...
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