Pat Dollard

The Hill: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the architect of the Democrats’ large Senate majority, predicted Sunday that healthcare reform would be an asset for Democratic candidates in November. While Republicans have pledged to make healthcare the centerpiece of their 2010 political strategy, Schumer said the move would blow up in their faces. “I predict that [...]

Politico: An emboldened President Barack Obama will take a stronger hand with Congress in coming weeks. The spring offensive, if successful, would allow Obama to claim concrete progress on all of his domestic priorities, despite a “lost year” between the passage of a stimulus package in February 2009 and the signing of health reform last [...]

From The Detroit News: At lest seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group, a person familiar with the matter said. The suspects are expected to make an initial [...]

Reuters: Air Force One landed in darkness at Bagram airfield north of the Afghan capital, and Obama was whisked by helicopter to Karzai’s palace in Kabul, where he was greeted by the Afghan president and a band playing the U.S. national anthem. “I want to send a strong message that the partnership between the United [...]

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BANGKOK (AP) – Thailand’s prime minister has opened negotiations with leaders of anti-government protests to defuse growing tensions, agreeing to their demand that the talks be broadcast live on national television. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has repeatedly rejected demands from the “Red Shirt” protesters to dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections. Abhisit’s office said Sunday, [...]

The Ministry of Propaganda’s news wire service which operates under the generic moniker “Associated Press”, of course went into full Obama Uber Alles mode yesterday, beginning each story about his outrageous recess appointments with the state-approved phrase “Fed up with delays, (Herr) Obama today appointed…” Republicans are pushing back on Democratic claims that they’re stonewalling [...]

And I recommend you also pay attention to Obama’s war on the National Chamber of Commerce, a key part of Obama’s plans to overthrow the United States Government in favor of the Communist dictatorship he’s looking to establish as the end game of The American Communist Revolution of The Turn-Of-The-Century…

The Hill: The chairman of the House Democratic Caucus acknowledged on Friday his office had received multiple threats related to the passage of healthcare reform last week. However, Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) declined to provide details about the threats, noting only during an event at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center that his office has “reported [...]

New York Times: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced a “major policy revision” that aims to give bicycling and walking the same policy and economic consideration as driving. “Today I want to announce a sea change,” he wrote on his blog last week. “This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of [...]

The Hill: This week’s healthcare votes in the Senate came with a successful but important lesson for Democratic leaders: Do not rely on the votes of Evan Bayh, Blanche Lincoln or Ben Nelson. During the two-day voting marathon on amendments to the healthcare reconciliation bill, the three Democratic centrists bucked their party more than any [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Although he’s had to wail far less time than President Bush, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment. The move immediately deepened the divide between the [...]