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Sampson: Politics, Performance, What's The Difference!
The Senate's questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff Kyle Sampson is underway. (Watch it on C-Span 3, or online. TPMmuckracker and Firedoglake are liveblogging.) In his opening statement, he said the reasons for purging eight U.S....
Let The Kids Dance
If memory serves, back in 1995, right after the Republicans took over Congress, a pre-Fox News Dennis Miller looked at footage of a sea of grumpy white men sitting on their hands during a Bill Clinton State of the Union address, and remarked: It's the elders from...
Let The Kids Dance
If memory serves, back in 1995, right after the Republicans took over Congress, a pre-Fox News Dennis Miller looked at footage of a sea of grumpy white men sitting on their hands during a Bill Clinton State of the Union address, and remarked: It's the elders from...
Let The Kids Dance!
If memory serves, back in 1995 right after the Republicans took over Congress, a pre-Fox News Dennis Miller looked at footage of a sea of grumpy white men, sitting on their hands during a Bill Clinton State of the Union address, and remarked: It's the elders from...
Funding Failure Is Not An Option
President Bush, desperately trying to tamp down the rising tide of public pressure against the war, is seeking to misframe the Iraq bill he will soon veto. Realizing he can no longer win the argument about the war itself, he is maligning the bill's backers as playing...
Funding Failure Is Not An Option
President Bush, desperately trying to tamp down the rising tide of public pressure against the war, is seeking to misframe the Iraq bill he will soon veto. Realizing he can no longer win the argument about the war itself, he is maligning the bill's backers as playing...
Funding Failure Is Not An Option
President Bush, desperately trying to tamp down the rising tide of public pressure against the war, is seeking to misframe the Iraq bill he will soon veto. Realizing he can no longer win the argument about the war itself, he is maligning the bill's backers as playing...
Blogger Analysis of Prez Health Care Forum
Some reactions to Saturday's presidential candidate forum on health care from around the blogosphere. Taylor Marsh and Eteraz.org say Sen. Hillary Clinton had the strongest presentation, while Nevada Today's Hugh Jackson (link via Nevada Caucus 2008) talks up former...
A Healthy Health Care Debate
The following analysis of Saturday's presidential candidate forum on health care is excerpted from the full essay written by Prof. Jacob S. Hacker of Yale University. Hacker is the author of "The Great Risk Shift," as well as the “Health Care for America” proposal...
The Health Care Questions I Still Have
After watching Saturday's presidential candidate forum on health care, and judging the candidates using Roger Hickey's five health care questions, I'm left with key questions for each Oval Office aspirant. To former Sen. John Edwards: your plan sets up competition...
