I’m pretty sure it’s a new sporting event: you have to maintain a position that is the opposite of President Obama on absolutely everything. Must be exhausting. I’m just sayin’…

Yup. Twenty demands by Republicans at yesterday’s bipartisan Health Care Summit to scrap all existing legislative efforts and start anew. And there were only ten of them there. Sheesh. Pat Oliphant nailed it: My name is Eclectablog and I am a politaholic. I actually took a vacation day yesterday to watch all seven hours of President Obama’s bipartisan Health Care […]

The Senate has passed the jobs bill that made its way painfully through Congress these past few weeks. From the Associated Press: The Senate has passed a bill aimed at boosting job growth by giving tax breaks to businesses that hire the unemployed. The jobs legislation would also extend highway and mass transit programs through the end of the year […]

This morning, the White House offered to put the GOP’s health insurance reform plan online alongside their own plan in preparation for Thursday’s bipartisan summit. Problem is: there isn’t one. Via Dan Pfeiffer at the White House blog: What you can’t do just yet is read about the Republicans’ consensus plan – because so far they haven’t announced what proposal […]

I’ll tell you what. You have got to take a firm…FIRM!…stand on the issue of … well … this: I will make it a priority to ensure transgender individuals will not be allowed to change the sex on their driver’s license in any circumstance. That’s Paul Scott, candidate for Secretary of State in Michigan. Trying to get the GOP nomination. […]

Jumping Hay Zooz on a pogo stick. Open Left spells it out. First the Republicans DEMANDED that President Obama put any health care plans up for discussion at the February 25th summit online for everyone to read. If the President intends to present any kind of legislative proposal at this discussion, will he make it available to members of Congress […]

How do you motivate a Republican whose Congressional seat is being threatened? Well, if you’re Incumbent Retention Czar Mike Rogers (MI-08), head of the NRCC’s “Patriot Program”, you give ’em a colonial soldier bobblehead. I’m totally not kidding. Rogers uses not just the stick, but also the carrot. Make that the bobblehead. He gives a Colonial soldier bobblehead doll to […]

Nicked this from a posting on Reddit: A huge storm hit Washington D.C. this week dropping upwards of 3 feet of snow an paralyzing the city. President Obama announced that he wants to get the snow plowed but he wants a bipartisan consensus and compromise instead of unilateral action and that, instead of him pushing a particular bill, he wants […]

First he said this (in a Politico Op-ed in September ’09): Proud Americans, black and white, fought for too long and too hard to have the claim of racism be used in such a cavalier fashion. Blind charges of racism, where none exist, not only are an affront to those who have suffered the effects of racism, but it weakens […]

In an interview with Katie Couric last night right before the Super Bowl, President Obama announced that he is scheduling a bipartisan commission to go over the best ideas for health insurance reform. It will take place on February 25th. The idea is to bring Republicans back into the dialog after they took their ball and went home. They did […]

What is this? Some sort of Republican contest to see who can be the biggest dumbass in the entire party??? Via the Boston Herald: Steele panned President Barack Obama’s long-stated plan to let income tax rates return to higher levels for families making more than $250,000 a year. “Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of […]