In Sudden Slump, Charlie Crist Seems Lost
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 20th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
In Sudden Slump, Charlie Crist Seems Lost
Beth Reinhard, Miami Herald
Weather Forecast Gov. Charlie Crist walked alone into Friday's meeting with The Miami Herald editorial board. His security detail stayed outside the glass door. There were no staff members juggling Blackberries and briefing books at his side. Just Crist, sitting at a conference table in shirt sleeves and a tie, at perhaps the lowest point of his political career. The interview came after another tough week. Polls showed the former presumptive Republican nominee tied or just a notch ahead of former House Speaker Marco Rubio of Miami in the U.S. Senate race. Calls…
Stupak: Abortion Compromise ‘Unacceptable’
Ben Smith, Politico
An aide to Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) coordinated opposition to the Senate health bill’s abortion compromise this morning with the Republican Senate leadership, according to a chain of frantic emails obtained this morning by POLITICO.
We Wasted a Perfectly Good Financial Crisis
Paul Barrett, BusinessWeek
In 2009 we wasted a perfectly good financial crisis.With disastrous economic events accumulating in March, President Barack Obama exhorted listeners during a weekly radio talk to “discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis.” It's an appealing conceit: seeking breakthrough achievement in a time of danger.That's why it's such a shame we didn't take advantage of the Wall Street crisis of 2008 by making 2009 the Year of Real Financial Reform.Instead, the Obama Administration offered half-measures. The financiers lobbied against even modest reforms, and a…
President Obama Hails Senate Health Care Bill
Huma Khan, ABC News
Senate Democratic leaders inched closer to attaining their goal of passing a health care bill by Christmas as Ben Nelson, the Nebraska senator who had been skeptical of the bill, jumped on board, winning major concessions for his state, and the Congressional Budget Office released an optimistic cost estimate of the legislation. The Senate health care bill will reduce the deficit by $132 billion over the next 10 years and will cost $871 billion over the same time period, according to the CBO report released today. The revised health care bill would expand coverage to about 94 percent of…
A Pyrrhic Victory?
William Kristol , Weekly Standard
Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this articleWhen a fellow conservative tried to cheer me up this morning by assuring me that the Senate Democrats' victory on health care was going to be a Pyrrhic one, I realized I didn't remember much about Pyrrhus. I went of course to Wikipedia. That fine reference work defines a Pyrrhic victory as “a victory with devastating cost to the victor.” It also provides this quotation from Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus, describing the aftermath of the battle of Asculum in 279 BCE:”The armies separated; and, it…
