The Hill: President Barack Obama closed Wednesday’s healthcare summit by stating his willingness to use controversial rules to pass healthcare with a simple majority vote known as Reconciliation. Obama insisted at the highly-anticipated healthcare summit aimed at bringing the parties together that he hoped to win Republican support. But in the end, he made it [...]
The Washington Times: President Obama pledged to “listen” at the outset of his much-ballyhooed bipartisan health care summit on Thursday. Turns out he meant he’d be listening to his own voice. By the end of the televised event, Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes – nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by [...]
TMZ: Levi Johnston has been ordered to pay nearly $18,000 in back child support … TMZ has learned. During a hearing in the child support case between Bristol Palin and Levi, the judge ruled Levi must pay $1,688.42 a month in support, retroactive to the child’s birth — December 27, 2008. Bristol was in court [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Rep. Charles Rangel, the most powerful tax-writing lawmaker in Congress and a 40-year veteran of Capitol Hill, acknowledged Thursday that an ethics panel has accused him of accepting Caribbean trips from a corporation in violation of House rules. At least four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who were also on [...]
Rubber, glue, bounced off McCain, stuck to the Tragic Negro.
POLITICO: President Barack Obama spent the morning fending off GOP charges that his health care bill was a deal-ridden monstrosity that needs to be scrapped, even tangling testily with his 2008 presidential rival John McCain. “We’re not campaigning anymore, John,†Obama said at one point during the White House health summit, after McCain listed a [...]
Politico: After a brief period of consultation following the White House health reform summit, congressional Democrats plan to begin making the case next week for a massive, Democrats-only health care plan, party strategists told POLITICO. A Democratic official said the six-hour summit was expected to “give a face to gridlock, in the form of House [...]
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Phony. Psychopath. WASHINGTON (AP) – A high-stakes White House summit that opened Thursday with Republicans urging President Obama to “start over” on reforming the nation’s health care system quickly bogged down into a debate over how to rein in spiraling health care costs. Obama and his Democratic allies clashed with Republicans over whether the president’s [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – New claims for unemployment benefits jumped unexpectedly last week, mostly because state agencies processed a backlog of claims caused by snowstorms the previous week. The severe weather also increased temporary layoffs in the weather-sensitive construction and transportation industries. Still, the increase in claims underscored concerns that layoffs are no longer slowing as [...]
CNBC: President Barack Obama launched a vigorous defense of his economic agenda Wednesday, rejecting critics who call his policies “socialism” and insisting he aims to boost U.S. competitiveness abroad. Speaking to the Business Roundtable, which groups some of the country’s top chief executives, Obama called for support of his administration’s efforts to overhaul financial regulation [...]
The Sun: A PUB boss cheated death in a knife attack — when his BEER BELLY protected his vital organs. Doctors told Snaz Martin, 43, he was “almost certainly” saved by his midriff after a boozy customer stabbed him with a three-inch blade. The tubby landlord, who runs the Britannia Inn in Gillingham, Kent, said: [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama’s top advisers are quietly laying the groundwork for the 2012 reelection campaign, which is likely to be run out of Chicago and managed by White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, according to Democrats familiar with the discussions. For now, the planning consists entirely of private conversations, with Obama aides [...]
Washington (AP) – Here’s one point on which Democrats and Republicans agree on health care: President Barack Obama’s much-touted televised summit has virtually no chance of breaking the political logjam. That means Democrats will be forced to find a way to pass an overhaul on their own or face a huge political defeat. Lawmakers from [...]
