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Why Dana Milbank Is Right (and Paul Krugman Is Wrong)
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI don't usually bother looking at Paul Krugman's columns at the New York Times, but a recent post of his -- attacking the Washington Post's Dana Milbank -- deserves a closer look. Krugman, it seems, is livid at Milbank's assertion that during the health care debate, President Obama "acceded too easily to the wishes of Hill Democrats, allowing them to slow the legislation and engage in a protracted debate on the public option." (Milbank, of course, is just a conservative hack out to make liberals look bad. In fact, he's so conservative that he spent the last year of his life writing a book ...
Obama Urges House Passage of Teacher Jobs Bill, Criticizes Republican Resistance
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyPresident Obama has urged the House to pass a $26 billion jobs bill that the president will save 160,000 teaching positions across the country. The measure has already gained passage in the Senate, passing by a margin of 61-39, with two Republican senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine, joining Democrats in support. House members have returned from their August recess to hold a special session to vote on the bill. In a statement issued in the White House Rose Garden, the president said the bill would prevent the layoff of not only educators but essential state employees, ...
Nancy Pelosi Will Call House Back From Recess to Act on Jobs Bill
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyVacation interruptus. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will call the U.S. House back from recess to finish work on a $26 billion bill that is expected to save tens of thousands of police, firefighter and teacher jobs across the country. With the help of two Republicans -- Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe -- the Senate broke a procedural logjam on the legislation and then approved it 61-39 on Thursday. That leaves it to the House to agree to the Senate version, but lawmakers recessed for the summer last week -- so Pelosi is telling her colleagues to return next week for one more roll ...
First Family Likely Heading to Martha's Vineyard Again for Vacation
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyIn the wake of the BP oil spill, both President Obama and First Lady Michelle have made separate trips to Florida to encourage tourists to visit -- with Mrs. Obama delivering a speech Tuesday on a still pristine beach. For their own vacations, the First Family is heading to Maine this weekend and likely will return to Martha's Vineyard for an extended stay in August. The Obamas arrived Friday at Mount Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park, with the family flying to the Bar Harbor Airport. They return to Washington on Sunday. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked at ...
Obama: Sweeping Financial Reforms Will 'Hold Wall Street Accountable'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIt took 20 hours and some frantic, last-minute dealmaking, but House and Senate negotiators wrapped up a marathon session Friday morning with a final deal to overhaul the American financial system nearly two years after the 2008 crisis that brought the American economy to the brink of collapse. Just before 6 a.m. Friday, bleary-eyed lawmakers approved the House-Senate conference committee report on a party-line vote of 27-16 after a grueling two-week session that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) compared to living in purgatory. But as President Obama departed for the G-8 Summit hours after the ...
Kagan 'Pragmatic, Thoughtful,' Sen. Snowe Says After Meeting
By Justine Jablonska - Politics DailyOne month, one week and one day remain until Senate confirmation hearings begin for Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. Kagan continued her round of meetings with senators on Thursday, meeting with Republicans Olympia Snowe of Maine and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire as well as Democrats Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Barbara Boxer of California. After a nearly hour-long meeting with Kagan, Snowe praised her temperament and qualifications, adding that she'll continue evaluating Kagan's views and writings and that Kagan's ...
Jobless Benefits Restored for 200,000-Plus
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyBreaking a logjam, Congress voted to restore extended unemployment benefits to more than 200,000 Americans who were cut off for two weeks during a debate over how to pay for the $18 billion program. President Obama signed the bill into law Thursday night. Republicans have argued that cuts should be made in other programs to fund the unemployment benefits, which can extend to 99 weeks in some states. "What unemployed workers really want are jobs and paychecks, not almost two years of unemployment checks and more debt for our country," the New York Times quoted Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) as ...
Evan Bayh Is Most Conservative Senate Democrat, Ratings Say
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe most conservative Senate Democrat? The most liberal Republican? Read all about it in National Journal's vote ratings, drawn up to measure the ideological range of this fightin' and feudin' 111th Congress. National Journal, an influential and deeply reported magazine and Web site, used its own editors and reporters to compile more than 90 roll-call votes on economic, social and foreign policy legislation in the Senate and the House of Representatives. They then graded lawmakers as liberal or conservative based on those votes. They've been doing it since 1981 and, as always, there were ...
Winners and Losers in Mass. Senate Election
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Jan. 20) -- At first glance, it's quite clear who's the biggest winner in Tuesday's Massachusetts election. State Sen. Scott Brown has become the GOP's latest hero by capturing the U.S. Senate seat Democrats held for decades. And not just any Democrats -- the Kennedys. Brown's victory over state Attorney General Martha Coakley -- Tuesday's biggest loser -- in the battle to succeed Ted Kennedy might spell defeat for health care reform, which the late senator called the cause of his life. A closer look at what online commentators are saying about the election that ended the Democrats' 60-vote ...
All Roads Lead to Olympia Snowe as Reid Looks for Health Care Closer
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter nearly a year of discussion, five months of committee-level drafts, two weeks of full Senate debate and 17 votes, at least a half-dozen scenarios could leave Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid one vote short of passing health care reform. Despite Reid's announcement Tuesday night that "consensus has been reached" among Democrats on health care, consensus remains most definitely elusive on any number of issues that could scuttle reform with the loss of just one Democratic vote, keeping Reid from the 60 votes he needs to pass his bill. ...
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