Charlie Rose with Bob Woodward; Max Baucus & Chuck Grassley; Bill Frist (October 4, 2001)
culturekitchen (Free subscription) | yesterday
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley has a 2010 challenger. Here is an announcement from Iowa: Together, I know we can take on the Washington special interests and fight for a voice that gives relief to Main Street, not Wall Street. Help small business grow, instead of shipping jobs overseas. We have the most educated, skilled workforce right here in Iowa, ready to get this economy back on track -- preserving...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Democrats got their woman in Iowa, expanding the Senate playing field a bit: Des Moines lawyer Roxanne Conlin plans to file paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission next week to run for U.S. Senate next year, adviser Mark Daley said today. Conlin, a Democrat, has said last month she is more likely than not to seek the seat held by five-term Republican Chuck Grassley, but had to work out how...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Via Ben Smith, Radio Iowa reports that Christie Vilsack--wife of the guy currently responsible for grading your meat --might challenge Chuck Grassley in 2010. A couple months ago, Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein argued that Obama screwed up by putting Tom Vilsack in his cabinet when Democrats would have been better served by having the popular former Iowa governor run against Grassley. I think Christie's...
Drunk at idrunk.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
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Red State (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
As Streiff noted yesterday , the Senate Finance Committee considered Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) amendment on the health care legislation that would require identification to take advantage of medicaid benefits. Senator Grassley’s position, and the logical position, is that if one is not asked to show identification before taking advantage of a taxpayer funded health care program like...
The Travis Monitor (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Big ObamaCare Vote on Tuesday - amendment to get public option re-inserted into the bill: Originally the Senate Finance Committee was to vote on the Public Option Amendments today, but it seems that it has been pushed back until Tuesday September 29, 2009. It has been called the beginning of the battle; in an interview Wednesday night, Charles Schumer is quoted saying, “Tomorrow is the opening...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Next year's campaign in Iowa Senate district 37 will be closely watched statewide and may draw some national attention. Republican State Representative Kent Sorenson has decided to challenge first-term Senator Staci Appel instead of seeking re-election to Iowa House district 74. The socially conservative Sorenson made a splash this summer with his open letter imploring Senator Chuck Grassley to provide...
D-Day (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Republicans decided to attack the individual mandate today, specifically hitting the notion of penalties for not buying insurance. WASHINGTON -- Senior Republicans challenged Democratic plans to require nearly all people to carry health insurance, sharpening attacks on the first day of Senate Finance Committee debate over legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system. The criticism underscored...
fivethirtyeight (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
After a couple of weeks that have generally looked pretty good for Team Blue on health care reform, Max Baucus's Senate Finance Committee bill suddenly finds itself devoid of supporters. And everyone seems to have their own, unique way of objecting. Firstly, there's Jay Rockefeller, who opposes the lack of a pubic option. Ron Wyden doesn't think the subsidies are sufficient. Then there's Olympia Snowe,...
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Karen Tumulty: If there had ever been any hope for real GOP support for President Obama's health care plan, it came in the form of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who has been negotiating behind the scenes for months with his...
Time (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Senator Charles Grassley once looked like President Obama's best hope for winning GOP votes for health-care reform. But that was before Grassley got an earful in Iowa
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
The U.S. media is excellent at cutting off the left from political debates. That way the moderates look like the new left end and the so-called center keeps on moving to the right. For an example, take a look at a USAToday article on Obama's coming speech on health care. It begins by stating the problems he has (people don't want reform yadda-yadda, despite what the polls tell us). Then comes this...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
I don't know what is more remarkable: the frequency of these events or that Senator Grassley doesn't confront the man's threat on Washington. POCAHONTAS - President Barack Obama is a fascist. This and other assertions flew through an emotionally-charged town hall meeting conducted by Sen. Chuck Grassley Monday in Pocahontas. "The president of the United States, that's who you should be concerned...
DISSENTING JUSTICE (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Sarah Palin and Senator Chuck Grassley are working together to spread lies regarding the substance of pending healthcare reform legislation. Last week, Sarah Palin posted a note on Facebook, which states that: The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide,...
Innerbrat (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
There is, apparently, a meme going around among various USian pundits of certain political affiliations - and financial interest in the Insurance industry, in some cases - that the National Health Service is evil and murderous and everyone in the UK is dying of death. In my self-inturned little world I've only really come to be aware of this meme by way of the countermeme - the rising trend on Twitter,...
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