Archive for February, 2010
Health Care Summit In Rearview Mirror, President Hopeful For Compromise But Expecting - And Ready For - Progress Alone
President Obama put the finishing touches on his often grueling seven-and-a-half hour health care summit on Thursday by giving Republican a challenge that he hopes will produce a bipartisan health care bill, but warning that he and congressional Democrats are prepared to move forward alone if the minority party fails to compromise on their demands. […]
Question Time Tussle: Obama Says McCain Forgets That “The Election’s Over”
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The ghosts of the 2008 presidential election were rekindled in the midst of 2010’s occasionally fractious health care reform summit as the current president and his last election foe ignited old campaign disagreements that temporarily turned Blair House into a presidential debate hall for an election decided well over one year ago.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, […]
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White House, Speaker Pelosi Do Summit Pre-Game
The White House stressed that today’s bipartisan health care summit is important and not a “six-hour photo op” while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released remarks she will deliver at the meeting that sets a high bar for any potential compromise on health care legislation with Republicans.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made the rounds of […]
FYI: Health Care Summit
Some details you need to know regarding Thursday’s bipartisan health care summit at Blair House in Washington…
TV: The event will be covered in it’s entirety on C-SPAN 3, but almost all of the meeting will be shown by CNN, Fox News and MSNBC in roadblock cable coverage that will ensure many Americans will get to […]
Health Care Summit: What To Watch
The expectations for Thursday’s televised bipartisan health care summit cannot get any lower. What was at first hailed as a breakthrough to Washington gridlock when President Obama announced the event has devolved into a seemingly contrived political exercise, with the White House already having a health care blueprint they say will be put in place […]
Participants Spar Ahead Of Thursday’s Health Care Summit
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If the beginning is a shadow of what is to come for President Obama’s hotly anticipated health care summit in Washington on Thursday, there is little chance that anything constructive or bipartisan comes out of the cross-party chat.
A day before the event kicks off at 10 AM sharp, both sides of the health care debate […]
McCain Courts Risk As He Slams Tea Party Challenger For Birther “Conspiracies”
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John McCain is going viral and going negative in what is turning into a very bitter fight for his Senate seat on the Arizona Republican primary. Despite being his party’s 2008 presidential nominee, McCain is facing a battle for his political life with the burgeoning Tea Party movement and J.D. Hayworth, their favored candidate.
McCain has […]
CBO Says Stimulus Saved Millions Of Jobs
The case against the economic impact of President Obama’s stimulus package continues to fray as Democrats feel emboldened to hit back against Republican criticism that the president’s plan was a failure that did not create a “single job” in the year since it was signed into law.
The Congressional Budget Office released analysis on Tuesday indicating […]
Senate Jobs Bill Passes With Bipartisan Vote
After legislative drama on Monday that saw five Republicans, including new GOP star Scott Brown, break with the rest of their party and help end a GOP filibuster, the $15 billion jobs bills backed by the White House and crafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was approved in a 70-28 Wednesday vote.
The package of […]
