Palin’s Climate ‘Epiphany’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 16th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Palin’s Climate ‘Epiphany’
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Who Should Pay for Reform: The Rich or the Insured?
Kate Pickert, Time
Senators Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders and Al Franken just introduced an amendment to the Senate health reform legislation that will make the unions happy. They proposed eliminating the bill's tax on so-called "Cadillac health plans"� and replacing it with a new tax on immensely rich Americans. The new tax would be 5.4% and would apply to individuals earning more than $2.4 million per year. The Senate bill as it's currently written would instead apply a 40% tax on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,500 for families and $23,000 for families. (Only the…
Joe Biden’s Secret Afghanistan Mission
Richard Wolffe, The Daily Beast
Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message: Mel Evans / AP Photo Far from a rebuke of Biden, Obama's Afghan decision was close to the VP's true position, the White House says. Richard Wolffe on Biden's next challenge: selling the war strategy without gaffes.According to the newspaper accounts, Joe Biden should be an unhappy man. He just lost the internal debate about the new Afghanistan strategy and is now required to sell the policy to anxious Democrats and the skeptical…
Putting Obama on Hold, A Hint of Who’s Boss
Andrew Ross Sorkin, NYT
President Obama didn’t exactly look thrilled as he stared at the Polycom speakerphone in front of him. “Well, I appreciate you guys calling in,” he began the meeting at the White House with Wall Street’s top brass on Monday. President Obama on Monday. His words about Wall Street might not be having the intended impact these days. Go to your Portfolio »He was, of course, referring to the three conspicuously absent attendees who were being piped in by telephone: Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs; John J. Mack, chairman of…
