Earlier this evening, Speaker John Boehner announced that House Republicans will support a two-month extension of the payroll tax cuts. With a call for a final vote Friday morning, Boehner and the GOP leadership have abandoned their current push for a one-year extension of the cuts in order to pass the stopgap provision and end the political battle in time [...]
Tonight, CNBC is hosting, along with the Michigan Republican Primary, a Republican presidential debate focused on the economy. The debate is hosted by Maria Bartiromo and John Harwood at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. The participants include the now-established GOP candidates: Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman. A series [...]
On Wednesday, as debt deal talks continued to consume most politicians inside the beltway, the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls stepped away from politics as usual toward the politics of the future — a Twitter debate. With all of the quoting (read: retweeting), finger-pointing (read: @mentioning) and following (read: following) inherent in any political debate, the Republican contenders and their followers [...]
CNN is live broadcasting the Republican Presidential Debate from Manchester, NH online at http://live.cnn.com and on television. The speakers are Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. 10:00 p.m. Romney’s closing remarks – what he has learned from the NH debate and the NH people – are that the economy will be [...]
interview by Jess Mayer PPR: You did a lot for Pennsylvania during your time as governor. What specific achievement would you most like to be remembered for? Ed Rendell: It’s interesting. Somebody found a memo that was done two weeks after my election, in 2002, before I had taken office. It listed forty pages of campaign promises, and we put [...]
A few weeks ago, a federal judge declared that the recently passed health care legislation was unconstitutional because its mandate requiring individuals to purchase insurance is akin to compelling citizens to buy broccoli. In other words, Judge Vinson said that the “novel” step to regulate “inactivity” is beyond Congressional authority. Judge Vinson’s ruling was reminiscent of a similar ruling last [...]
Word clouds have become the norm now. After every big speech that President Barack Obama gives, every blogger and major news publication types in a transcript to a website like Wordle.net and publishes the results – word clouds showing the frequency of words in the speech. To save some time, I’ve referenced the word clouds of past Obama speeches produced [...]
Either Matt Yglesias is rehashing points that don’t need to be rehashed, or the “national conversation” part of health care reform failed miserably: After all, it seems to me that one of the big drivers of lack of productivity in the health care sector is the paucity of innovations that take the form of “not quite as good, but way [...]
So I’m trying to link to more exciting material from across the internet. Here is a paragraph that I think sheds way more light on health care than most of the paragraphs I’ve read on the subject in the past year. Not the best, by a long shot, but condensed and really well-focused. Ladies and gentlemen, Will Wilkinson (emphasis added): [...]
Yesterday’s passage of healthcare reform has whipped up both parties in a frenzy- Democrats celebrating what they view as victory over the status quo, and Republicans lamenting the plan as over reaching, vulnerable to repeal, and perhaps constitutionally feeble. I’ve written a lot about this bill, and yesterday’s narrow margin of passage did little to assuage my underlying fears about [...]
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