It's amazing to go back and read what people were saying about Timothy Geithner in the spring. Many people said he looked terrified as the Treasury secretary, like Bambi in the headlights. The New Republic ran an essay called “The Geithner Disaster.” Portfolio magazine ran a brutal, zeitgeist-capturing profile that concluded by comparing Geithner to Robert Redford's hollow-man character...
I love it that the Hispanic Caucus hates Rahm so much, in this case because he pushed for the illegal-alien restrictions in the health-care bill. I can't wait to hear what they'll say about him when their comprehensive amnesty bill fails to go anywhere!
Will they be celebrating the new Gallup numbers in the White House tonight? Will Master Rahm be inviting Larry Summers and Tim Geithner? by Ken Okay, it's official now: Gallup has the president's approval rating down to 49 percent . ("President becomes fourth fastest to slip below the majority approval level.") Question for the Obama "brain" trust: With the combination of desperate...
Time has an interesting tick-tock this week about Greg Craig, the White House lawyer tasked with dismantling Bush-era interrogation and detention policies. At first, Obama was on board with Craig's plans. Then, reality set in. Here he is deciding whether to release a set of "torture memos" last spring: Obama arrived at [Rahm] Emanuel's office a few minutes later, took off his windbreaker...
Jonathan Allen at Politico.com has a tsory about how Latino politicians, including Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), blame White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for the exclusion of undocumented immigranst from health care refiorm. KJ
Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don't get insurance through their employers. "A forensic study would show it all leads back to Rahm Emanuel and the White House," said Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez,...
Very strange stuff , but no real shock coming from these types of freaks. Michelle Malkin writes the Second Declaration of Independence. Rep. Barney Frank, the "banking queen," escapes the people's militia "dressed as an ugly hag." The pro-Obama forces are responsible for mass graves. The "almost illiterate" Rep. Maxine Waters hides out "with the poor in the shanty...
The New York Times reports that John Doerr, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, and former President Bill Clinton have separately suggested a home energy spin-off of the popular Cash for Clunkers program. Dubbed “Cash for Caulkers,” the program would give households money for weatherization projects. Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, tells reporter David Leonhardt [...]...
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Republicans aren't the only ones who'd like to see Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner thrown out onto the White House lawn. Oregon Democratic representative Peter DeFazio spoke with the Wall Street Journal today and said Geithner needs to get lost, the same thing Republican Kevin Brady said to the secretary's face earlier today . WSJ: Why do you think Geithner should resign? Rep. DeFazio: “I just...
People who live in nice houses like this have pretty tulips-- and the clout to get out of paying their fair share of taxes The battle over the Estate Tax is heating up again. The simplistic way to look at it is that the defenders of wealthy elites-- the Republican Party and DLC and Blue Dog Democrats (particularly Blanche Lincoln )-- are opposing real Democrats, who want to reform a system that the...
Look, whether you are for single payer, the public option, moderate changes in the health care legislation, everyone on here knows how Rahm Emanuel operates. I am not mad at him, he is who he is. A moderate, corporatist democrat. He was successful in bringing in massive Democrats like, Heath Shuler, to our party. He is a blue dog, so be it.But saying, "Just give us anything and we will
God, I love the brutal nature of honesty applied without the merest hint of the usual Washington politic-politeness: "I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," said Conyers. "I mean, he only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn't anything to write home about. The public option is only available, which is the only way you manage cost and get some competition...
NPR.org Oddly, several news organizations refer to the president's chief of staff on a second reference as "Rahm Emanuel," writes Alicia Shepard . "NPR has just decided to make that a policy after correspondent Nina Totenberg referred to Emanuel three times by his first name only on-air. ...If it were up to me, NPR would not have a special rule for Emanuel (he'd just be Emanuel)."...
By GottaLaff Via Taegan, a podcast from Bill Press's show: Ouch. Conyers is not at all happy with the White House, and doesn't hold back. He straight up accuses President Obama of caving to the wingnuts and Rahm Emanuel of "settling for anything." The Democratic party is diverse, all right.... but that doesn't always produce a good result. How about a united front for meaningful health care?...
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) in Huffington Post : "I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," said Conyers. "I mean, he only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn't anything to write home about. The public option is only available, which is the only way you manage cost and get some competition to 1,300 other health insurance companies, the only way he could...
President Barack Obama said during his election campaign he would ‘allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the US’. He began delivering on this promise with a fiscal 2010 budget request for funds ‘to allow the FDA to begin developing policies for drug importation’. Earlier in 2009, with strong bipartisan support, Senator...
President Barack Obama said during his election campaign he would ‘allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the US’. He began delivering on this promise with a fiscal 2010 budget request for funds ‘to allow the FDA to begin developing policies for drug importation’. Earlier in 2009, with strong bipartisan support, Senator...
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