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An education reformer discovers that tests, standards, and other silver bullets are no substitute for hard teaching....
A Fresh Take on the Jewish Faith
A new community of American Judaism is embracing religious traditionalism and social liberalism....
Does greater access to data on foreign aid translate into more accountability? TAP talks with a group that advocates for increased transparency about what it could mean....
American foreign policy has never been independent of politics, but in recent years, politics has come first....
Durbin's Bid to End Sentencing Disparity
The sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine is a disgrace. It's time to end it, not mend it....
New York's latest food campaign would impose a tax on the syrup added to soda and sweetened drinks....
The Daily PCIJ
Covering automated elections,uncovering campaign finance
On March 6, the PCIJ concluded in Zamboanga City the last of 12 training seminars on Covering Automated Elections and Uncovering Campaign Finance for journalists, citizen bloggers and campus writers across the country. The seminars, with support from the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the United States Agency...
Pols flood the airwaves with ads, but do their messages stick?
Political ads, more than just pesos and cents, are at core about putting across credible messages and getting the votes. This is the focus of Part 2 of our latest report on the political ads of the top six candidates for president that in the three months before...
2010 Presidential Elections: A billion-peso TV war
Our latest two-part report reveals that in the last three months before the election campaign period started, six of the 10 candidates for president had racked up advertising values on television, radio and print media worth a whopping P2.1 billion! Minus the discounts and commissions that network executives and PRs say...
Election expense reports: Truth (not) well told
Our latest report reveals the gaps and holes in the “Statement of Electoral Contributions and Expenses” that candidates for president, vice president and senator had filed since 1998. The popular perception is that running an election campaign has the potential of reducing a candidate to penury. Yet none of those who...
The curious case of ARMM and Maguindanao population spikes
Our latest report written by PCIJ Fellow Roel R. Landingin exposes what population experts call “a statistical anomaly” with grave implications on the conduct and results of the May 10, 2010 elections – the inexplicable sharp spike in the population growth rate of the Autonomous Region in...
Implicated Ampatuans still running in 2010 elections
Our latest story, written by senior journalist and Mindanao expert Carolyn Arguillas, details the candidacy of 10 of the 12 Ampatuan clan members who have been implicated as respondents or conspirators in the November 23, 2009 Maguindanao massacre. The report is part of a continuing series of reporting projects...
David Ortez - A Political/Social Thought Blog
Ron Paul Reminds Us that He is Crazy!
In an op-ed titled, “Why I voted against encouraging people to complete Census form,” Congressman Ron Paul of Lake Jackson justifies why he voted “No” on a Congressional resolution intended to encourage participation in the 2010 census. Paul claims that the census “has grown far beyond what the framers of our...
Mo Money, Mo Problems at Metro
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Beware of the Spin from Rick Perry!
As I talk to friends and family about the upcoming Texas election where we have a chance to finally send that damn Aggie in Longhorn land packing … it dawned on me that Bill White will need to approach this race on the aggressive side and make King Perry defend...
Democratic Party Primary Election Results
In what seemed like a blink of an eye and **flash** we have now concluded the March Primary here in Texas. The following is the list of winners on the Democratic ticket who will challenge the Republican nominees this November. Only a handful of races were not decided and those...
March 2010 Texas Democratic Primary Cheat Sheet
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Under The Influence
Retailer JCPenney will not renew its membership in the National Retail Federation. In a March 10 letter to NRF Chairman Terry Lundgren, JCPenny CEO Myron Ullman said his company will leave the trade group and focus its resources on the Retail Leaders Association (RILA). "Given the gravity of the issues...
This week's advocacy and lobbying stories in National Journal: (subscription) "K Street Paradox:" In this week's special report on lobbying: President Obama's fight against special interests boomerangs as lobbying firms just get richer. "Q & A With Obama's Ethics Gate Keeper:" Norman Eisen, special counsel for ethics and government reform,...
Conservative Group Targets Reid
From this morning's Earlybird: • "The American Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, has placed a new $250,000 television ad buy targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) over Democrats' procedural maneuvering on the health care bill," Roll Call reports. • "As lawmakers imposed another restriction Thursday on congressional earmarks,...
(Credit: Richard A. Bloom) Updated with U.S. Chamber comment at 12:09 p.m. on March 12. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it's fighting for small businesses, but not all small-business owners appreciate the effort. After the chamber's launched its $4 million ad campaign against the health care bill Tuesday, the...
House Mulls Options On Campaign Finance Reform
House Capital Markets Subcommittee Chairman Paul Kanjorski, D-Penn., said at a hearing this morning that we may be on the way to a Constitutional Convention due to repeated Supreme Court decisions scaling back campaign finance law in the name of the First Amendment. Such an event, however, could actually wind...
Patton Boggs Looks To Buy Firm
From this morning's Earlybird: • "Washington's biggest lobbying firm is on the verge of getting even bigger. Patton Boggs LLP, which rang up nearly $40 million in lobbying last year, is in negotiations to purchase the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, according to sources familiar with the talks," the Washington Post reports....
Informed Comment: Global Affairs
We live in age of political extremism. It's not necessarily a reflection of the tough issues of the day; there have been tougher times to be sure, and it's not just bad manners; politicians have probably always been street fighters at heart, despite their grinning photo-ops, and their groomed appearances...
BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAMUS-China relations have gotten off to a less than roaring start in the Year of the Tiger, but the venom of mutual incrimination can be avoided if both sides engage in some retrospection and put things in an historical perspective.Indeed, the positive achievements of the world's most...
[Cross-posted with "From the Field"]Desmond Travers, one of the four members of the Goldstone Commission, has drawn fire for noting that an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire, initiated in June 2008, was being respected by Hamas, at least until Israel punctured the ceasefire early November 2008.* In an interview in Middle East...
THE BANALITY OF NOT BEING EVIL
By Philip J Cunningham There’s something irremediably banal about Google’s corporate motto. It’s hip, it’s hype and it’s hypocritical. "Don't be evil" is a curiously negative construct; eschewing evil is not necessarily about doing good. In sum, a sophomoric yet shrewd manner of self-presentation that is...
BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAMIt's one thing when fear of terror causes people to lose their nerve, quite another when they start losing their minds.The Obama administration appears to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.It's not clear if it's terrorists, real and imagined, who have got the Democratic establishment...
by Philip J. CunninghamIt’s official. US President Barack Obama, long suspected of being the type of person who wanted to have his cake and eat it too, wine and dine with Wall Street while tossing rhetorical crumbs to the poor, dispossessed and hungry, all the while hobnobbing with the rich...
washingtonpost.com - Howard Kurtz (washingtonpost.com)
Roethlisberger, Massa, Ensign, Woods: Sex, power and sports
Here we go again....
Obamacare: Groping for a solution
We interrupt the great tickle party that is Washington to bring you news that is not likely to produce an outbreak of giggling....
Not since the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho" has there been such a famous shower scene....
Obama and pals push back on staff turmoil
President Obama was just warming up for a stemwinder on health care, calling out the Republicans and the insurance companies, when he made a slight digression....
Now playing: TV's one-man-bands
Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel....
In lean times, TV reporters must be jacks of all trades
Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel....
The Washington Independent
What’s That Word for People Who Will Do Anything for Money?
David M. Herszenhorn at The New York Times points out a curious thing happening in the midst of the debate over student lending reform: Although the plan to eliminate billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to private lenders originated, by some accounts, with President Bill Clinton, it’s now former Clinton...
Tea Party Signs, Sponsored by the RNC
Alex Pappas reports: The Republican National Committee is paying for signs and political buttons used by Tea Party groups — despite widespread disagreement among the conservative, grassroots activists on whether the movement should work to elect candidates within the Republican party or steer clear from it. The items, paid for by the...
Family Research Council: Help Us Kill ObamaCare
Here’s the flip side of Ben Smith’s report today on evangelicals and Tea Parties — direct mail from the social conservative Family Research Council that tees off on health care reform and delivers, by and large, a message that could appeal to anyone in the Tea Party Movement....
A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - After hosting immigration reform advocates at the White House yesterday, President Obama met with Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to discuss plans for comprehensive immigration reform. The two senators have been working together to...
Clinton Losing Patience With Netanyahu
A recap: Vice President Biden flies to Israel this week and gets hit with word that Israel will expand settlements into Arab areas of Jerusalem. It’s widely seen as an insult. This afternoon, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley let it be known that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Prime...
Chamber of Commerce (Again) Hopes to Scale Back Proposed Black Lung Benefits
With black lung disease on the rise in Appalachia, West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd (D) last year took action. As Democratic leaders were piecing together their sweeping health reform proposal, the nine-term Byrd attached language that would expand black lung benefits for coal miners and their families. It hasn’t been well...
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Texas’ Board of Education has approved a new social studies curriculum with a conservative seal of approval. After three days of debate the board voted to change the curriculum to explicitly present Republican philosophies and conservative leaders in a more positive light. The new curriculum was voted in 10 to five,...
President Barack Obama’s administration has called for an overhaul of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education law, mitigating the ridiculous focus on standardized tests with an approach that takes into consideration student attendance and classrooms’ learning climates. —JCL The New York Times: The Obama administration on Saturday called for a...
Internet Fraud Losses Doubled in 2009
From Nigerian “millionaire” plans to “FBI agent” schemes, millions of dollars have been lost to scams on the Internet. Last year saw reported losses from Internet fraud more than double, rising from $264.6 million in 2008 to $559.7 million in 2009. —JCL Reuters: Reported losses from Internet fraud more than doubled in...
Google May Close Virtual Doors in China
Google is “99.9 percent” certain it will shut down its search engine operation in China after the government in Beijing warned the company that it was flouting the country’s censorship laws, which require limited access to content like “Tiananmen Square” and “democracy.” Google’s decision would close a chapter in a...
French voters are turning against the right-wing policies of President Nicolas Sarkozy in what many are calling the “pink tide,” a leftward shift in French politics that is putting Socialists and Greens in many legislative seats around the country. The term pink tide was initially used to describe the increasing power...
Getting a Read on the Middle East
The greatest problem of writing historically about the Middle East is that the story has not ended. The war goes on. And both “sides”—actually, there are rather a lot of sides—produce conflicting narratives....
The Back Forty
Repower America Conference Call Monday Night
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Repower America is inviting everyone concerned about global climate change to join in a conference call Monday night, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The purpose is to outline a strategy for passage of a clean energy bill about to be introduced in Congress. If you RSVP...
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson This video is pretty funny. I couldn’t resist. When you get to where the link sends you, just click on “I’m not on Facebook,” then keep your eyes open. Glenn Beck Attacks… It’s sponsored by MoveOn and was sent to me by SEIU (Service Employees International Union), the labor union...
Price Tags on Medical Items? It Could Happen.
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson A Wisconsin Congressmember last month filed a bill that would require providers of health care products and services, including health insurance, to put a price tag on everything they offer. There’s a good reason why Rep. Steve Kagan (D-WI8) wants people to know what they – or...
Stalking the Couch Potato, Part 1
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson I’ve been working with a neuroscientist on a proposal for a book about the societal causes of childhood obesity. The proposal is written, which is why I can be back here, blogging, after a hiatus of several months. Elliott Blass, my writing partner,...
Iraq Vets Group Supports Climate Change Legislation
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Support for a strong climate change bill, coupled with the argument that cutting America’s addiction to oil in half will help us increase our nation’s security and reduce the likelihood of a war against Iran, comes from a quarter that will surprise many: veterans of the war...
Posted by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson [Note from Miryam: I thought you should see this post on Health Affairs Blog by Chris Fleming. If you are a parent or grandparent and what you read here strikes a bell, you could make a huge difference in a child's life by stepping in with...
AmSpecBlog
Declare War on the Establishment Media
Andy McCarthy is right. He writes today to complain about a hit job in the L.A. Times against Ginni Thomas, long a conservative activist in her own right, who just happens to be the wife of... ...
Some Grudges Are Strictly Personal
An item in the Palm Beach Post on the launch of the "coffee party" (a weak imitation of the Tea Party movement) inspired me to rant passionately about the Cox... ...
ObamaCare Endorsed by the Religious Left
If you don't understand who these people are -- e.g., Jim Wallis of the far-left group Sojourners, which promoted Marxist "liberation theology" in the '80s -- then you ... ...
It's Getting Harder to Scare the American People
The climate alarmists dominate the media and run the government. But the American people still aren't buying the alarmist propaganda. Reports Gallup: Gallup's annual... ...
The Problem of Insincere Friends Like Morocco
Morocco epitomizes the problem of regimes which present themselves as pro-Western but which disparage Western values. There's reason for cooperation on issues of common interest, but... ...
Stupak A Definite "No," But Says Other Pro-Life Dems Are Caving
In a stunning interview with National Review, Rep. Bart Stupak said that he's a definite "no" vote on health care, but that other pro-life Democrats are beginning to cave under enormous... ...
Ezra Klein
What I Told The Singaporeans About Obama and McCain
On Monday, I and an ally gave 10-minute speeches to an audience at a Singapore public library against two McCain speakers. I'm really happy about how it went -- the kids were nodding throughout my speech and looking kind of......
This post is mainly for those of you on RSS readers, as the homepage should, quite soon, be redirecting everyone. But so you know, this blog has moved to: http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein For those using RSS, the new feed is: http://blog.prospect.org/blog/ezraklein/index.xml Copy......
Tomorrow, this blog moves to The American Prospect. It's a big deal for me. I remember setting up on Typepad, terrified that my decision to leave Pandagon was an insane mistake that would destroy my audience and doom any hope......
Oops. By Stephen of Cogitamus. I'm usually not that good with titles; the one for this post, however, encapsulates perfectly what I feel and what I owe To Ezra, of course, for the opportunity to be associated with one so......
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Faithful readers know Nicholas, Litbrit, Stephen, Ankush, John, and myself from our weekend posts on this blog. (While you've known me as 'Neil the Ethical Werewolf' here, I've decided to switch back to my human......
This Has Been The Most Awesome Thing Ever
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf It's been an awesome two and a half years guestblogging for Ezra. I've never stopped appreciating the awesomeness of being able to write for an audience of thousands, and I have him to thank both......
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The Fix
The Massa mishigas, health care politics and the Fix's cupcake rankings
We spent an hour this morning fielding your questions on topics as wide ranging as the impact of former Rep. Eric Massa's resignation to why former President (and Georgetown grad) was praising Syracuse during yesterday's Big East tournament. And, of course, our rankings of the best cupcake places in D.C....
Five days in May -- from the 18th to the 22nd -- will tell us much about just how bad the political environment is, and will be, for House Democrats this fall. On May 18, voters in southwestern Pennsylvania will pick a replacement for the late Rep. John Murtha in...
Health care ad spending grows; will it matter?
1. The air wars over health care, into which both sides have already poured more than $200 million, are in full swing again. The latest evidence? American Future Fund, a conservative group, is spending $500,000 bashing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter for their expressed...
Posting has been -- and will continue to be -- slow today as the Fix is in the Big Apple for meetings (read: buying Magnolia cupcakes for Mrs. Fix and Fix-in-laws). But, as always when we travel, we get to catch up on some reading including a bunch of stories...
White House memo argues health care support is increasing
A new polling memo from Joel Benenson, the White House's pollster of choice, argues that support for President Barack Obama's health care plan has been building in the wake of his State of the Union speech in late January. Since February 1, according to data compiled by Benenson, 44 percent...
Organizing for America's big test
1. Organizing for America, the organization within the Democratic National Committee intended to capture the energy of President Obama's 2008 campaign and advocate for his legislative agenda, is ramping up its efforts to push for passage of the health care bill before the White House's March 18 deadline. "Each day...
Splendid Marbles
Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the incredibly fabulous Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest. Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to the Splendid Marbles...
Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the infamous, but still fabulous Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest. Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to the...
Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the extremely famous, highly excellent Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest. Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to the...
Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the almost famous, super-fine Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest. Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to the Splendid...
Frankenatra Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the famous, super-excellent Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest- so kneel (please). Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to...
Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the Most Famous and Highly Excellent Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest- so bow in awe (please). Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached...
democracyarsenal.org
Israeli Settlements -- Food for Thought
As a general matter, I'm way too smart (or cowardly or prudent or chicken) to say very much publicly on Israel and the Palestinians. The progressive foreign policy wonk community has many genuine Middle East experts to do that, including......
Spencer Ackerman is doubling down on the notion that Bob Gates is the BEST. SECDEF. EVER. Personally, I think these kinds of lists don't tell us very much. While I suppose Gates is in the top tier, it's just too......
Spencer Ackerman has offered a thoughtful response to my earlier post on the lack of strategic thinking emanating from the Obama Administration and his comments give me an opportunity to clarify my thoughts. Spencer, perhaps in a glass half full......
Where Have All the Strategic Thinkers Gone?
There was a pretty interesting article in the Washington Post today about Hillary Clinton's tenure at State Department and it pretty much confirmed my suspicions about our Secretary of State - she's a great public diplomat and administrator, but not......
Sunday was a good day for Iraq but it is unwise to draw overly broad conclusions based on this one day. And I am holding off on commenting about the government formation process until we get official results from the......
Change We Shouldn't Believe in, but Should Try to Exploit Anyway
For the last week, Gregg Carlstrom has done an impressive job of highlighting all the reasons why U.S. observers should avoid chest-thumping over the wave of arrests of Taliban leaders by Pakistani authorities. Responding to a rather sanguine piece by......
Nukes & Spooks
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday to give him a tongue-thrashing over Israel's plans to construct 1,600 new homes in disputed East Jerusalem, and made sure her spokesman let the whole world know it.......
Ever since Adm. Michael Mullen told Congress that in his personal view, gays and lesbians should be allowed to openly serve, it’s been hard to find a vocal dissenting view. The chairman’s voice is a powerful one indeed. The highest-ranking......
Diplomatic memo: China to skip nuke summit?, ME peace talks on horizon
We're hearing that China may decide to skip next month's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, an Obama White House priority. Two sources say that Chinese President Hu Jintao may elect not to come, which would be a blow to the......
Another Israeli bombing target?
Before our readers get their feathers in a ruffle, that's a tongue-in-cheek headline up there. Still, an item from Persia House, the excellent Iran-watching cell at Booz Allen Hamilton, caught our eye. They report that this weekend, Iran will hold......
For as long as we here at N&S can remember, the US Embassy in London--with whom the United States has a "special relationship," it is said--has been at Grovesnor Square in downtown Mayfair. But the 1960s-era building is getting old......
Iran has just sent a letter to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, repeating its request for fuel to run a research reactor in Tehran that produces nuclear isotopes for medical purposes, according to U.S. and European......
Riehl World View
Careful, Axelrod's Lips Are Moving On Health Care Reform
It fell to David Axelrod to do the heavy spinning on Obama Care today. AXELROD: Well, first, let me note that Senator Brown comes from a state that has a health care plan that is similar to one that we......
Reid's Wife Out Of Intensive Care
Glad to see she's doing well, though I'm not sure what fast road to recovery means given the extent of her injuries. Thank God she didn't have the same trouble as this fellow in the UK socialist health care system,......
Olympic Organizer, Edward's Political Director Behind Ill. Coffee Party Movement
Following up on an Instapundit link to some coffee party astro-turfing, Big Government's h/t to here wasn't working - link needs fixed. And here's some more background on Coffee Party organizer Baxter Swilley. He was John Edward's MO political director......
lgf's Cheesey Chuckie Partners With Conor Friedersdorf
Geez, I was told he linked me the other day with the same garbage, but as he doesn't drive any traffic any more and his writing and reasoning are so flawed, I ignored the silly man. If not for spotting......
Statism, Utilitarianism And Health Care Reform
The state in the hands of the statist is most purely utilitarian by definition. It embraces what it believes has a useful function. And the statist's goal is to empower and preserve the state, not any one of its people.......
Make Gibbs Remove His Foot And Eat His Words!
Tyrants always think they've won until they've been defeated. It's the nature of the beast. And the nature of this beastly administration is to try and rub your face in it before it's true. Don't buy into it. White House......
NYT > Columnists
Young women in Riyadh try to balance Islam and modernity as the stunted desert kingdom makes progress in “Saudi Time.”...
BeadforLife, which teaches entrepreneurial skills to impoverished Ugandans, is an example of how Americans can make a difference....
Sexual harassment is no laughing matter....
A pair of City Council leaders want the N.Y.P.D. to abolish its database of innocent New Yorkers....
Barack Obama never has been what political partisans make him out to be....
Italy idles in the belief that life is circular and objectives an illusory distraction from pleasure....
BobGeiger.com
Not Disappearing… Just Not Back Yet
Being a political blogger would be an amazing way to make a living -- if only one could make a living doing it. Hell, I would probably settle for a partial living, a pittance even. Alas, it pays nothing, while also consuming almost as much time as a...
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Happy Holidays… And a Short Break
I will be taking some time off over the holidays to spend time with family, relax, reflect on our tremendous victories in 2008 and look forward to the coming year. I hope you do the same. Happy Holidays to all of you and thank you for your support.BobGeiger.com...
The U.S. Senate is in recess and will be back in session on January 6, 2009, when the 111th Congress will convene....
* * * * *Here's Mark Fiore with a timely version of 'Twas The Night Before Christmas -- "Corruption Christmas."Click on the screenshot above or go here to see it.* * * * *Our friends at Headzup show us Dick Cheney admitting to war crimes on national television:* * *...
A Reader Asks That I Reconsider Obama-Warren
I stopped publicly answering reader mail quite some time ago -- I generally only did it years ago to make fun of right-wingers sending me hate mail -- but I got a note from Michael Rapaport of Brooklyn, New York who had some interesting comments on me and much of...
Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
Rush Ridicules Pelosi's Accurate Comments On Benefits Of Health Care Reform
By Todd Gregory Rush kicked off his show citing reports that some members of the media in Greece had walked off the job to join protests over government austerity measures and linked this to his previous discussion about China's order that journalists be trained in communist theory. Limbaugh then briefly read from a report on states delaying...
In Denial: Limbaugh Claims CBO Is "Lying" That Health Care Bill Will Reduce Deficit
By Tom Allison Rush echoes Fox, distorts corrections bill proposal Rush kicked off today's show distorting reports that Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) is proposing a rule to advance health care reform by passing a corrections bill to adopt changes to the Senate bill. In fact, throughout today's show, Rush distorted the proposal,...
Rush Lays Out GOP's Objective to "Defeat Health Care"
By Zachary Pleat At the beginning of his show today, Rush repeated his charge that the Democratic Party is a gulag. He then expressed delight at the continuing problems of retired Rep. Eric Massa and mentioned that Rahm Emanuel was a big topic on David Letterman's show last night. Rush moved on...
By Tom Allison Rush's warning: Anyone who embraces Massa "is in for big trouble" Rush kicked off the today's show reading from an Associated Press story, demanding to be told how a new provision on employer-provided health insurance could be added through budget reconciliation. Rush moved on to complaining that the media...
Limbaugh Promises To "Leav[e] The Country" If His Health Care Distortions Come True
By Zachary Pleat Rush compares health care reform to the Ides of March: "How fitting an analogy" Kicking off his show, Rush said that President Obama's health care speech in Pennsylvania today had "even more lies" in it and that the entire crowd must have been union supporters because the applause was...
Limbaugh In The Oscar Spirit: Health Care Reform Is "The Terminator," And "Sauron Getting The Ring"
By Christine Schwen Rush launched today's Open Line Friday edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show with an old-man-style tirade about the number of switches in his office. No word yet about those kids who won't get off his lawn. Then he launched the "good news" of the February unemployment numbers, saying they would...