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Democrats Scramble To Save Health Care After GOP Scott Brown’s Victory (New York Times)
As Senate Democrats met on Wednesday to consider the fate of the Democratic health care overhaul now that Scott Brown’s decisive Senate victory in Massachusetts has cost them their razor-thin advantage, President Obama said that Congress should not try to pass the bill hurriedly before Mr. Brown takes his seat.
Republicans were demanding that the Democrats [...]
LATEST NEWS: Obama’s TSA Nominee Erroll Southers Withdraws (Washington Post)
Erroll Southers, President Obama’s nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration, has withdrawn his name from consideration, the White House said Wednesday.
Southers’s nomination had faced fierce opposition from Republicans, especially since revelations that he may have misled Congress about an incident in the late 1980s involving a background check of the boyfriend of his ex-wife.
As [...]
Obama To Campaign In Massachusetts For Endangered Senate Candidate (AP & Yahoo!)
His health care bill at stake, President Barack Obama plans a weekend trip to Massachusetts to campaign for endangered Senate candidate Martha Coakley after a poll showed an edge for Republicans in the race for a seat Democrats have held for over a half-century.
The White House said he will travel there Sunday.
“If Scott Brown wins, [...]
ROGER SIMON OPINION/POLITCO: Line In The Sand, Squiggle In The Mud
The guy knows how to give a speech. Give him that.
Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night was both an elegant celebration of the American character and a strong denunciation of our current inability in this country to “engage in a civil conversation.”
But will it really help him pass health care [...]
Small Businesses Get Kicked Again By The White House
The White House’s gamble to cut off aid to struggling lender CIT Group Inc. caps a string of decisions opening President Barack Obama to attacks that his administration hasn’t done enough to help small businesses
Republicans, lobbyists and some small businessmen noted Thursday that the lender to many small and medium-size firms was left to fend [...]
Republicans in Distress: Is the Party Over?
These days, Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species. They lost Congress, then the White House; more recently, they lost a slam-dunk House election in a conservative New York district, then Senator Arlen Specter. Polls suggest that only one-fourth of the electorate considers itself Republican, that independents are trending Democratic and that as [...]
Credit Card Legislation To Get A Final Vote This Week
A bill that targets credit card rate hikes and fees is headed for a final showdown in the Senate as key lawmakers negotiate a possible compromise measure.
The issue, which could go to the Senate floor this week, has grown increasingly popular, especially since President Obama and top White House advisers got involved in negotiations a [...]
Dana Bash/CNN: Bipartisanship Didn’t Last Long In Obama’s First 100 Days
By Dana Bash, CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent.
Editor’s note: How would you rate the new Congress in President Obama’s first 100 days? You’ll get a chance to make your opinion known on at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday on the CNN National Report Card.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — There’s little debate that Democrats who run Congress mark President Obama’s [...]
Opinion From Europe: Barack Obama and the CIA: Why Does President Pantywaist Hate America So Badly?
If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests [...]
Poll: Support For Democrats Shrinking
As Congress comes back after a two-week recess, a national poll indicates the honeymoon may be over for congressional Democrats, although they maintain a decided advantage over the GOP.
Forty-nine percent of people questioned this month in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. national survey say the country is better off with the Democrats controlling Congress. That’s down [...]
