AP – Could this turn into something more than political theater? President Barack Obama’s televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has the makings of an entertaining exchange. But the differences between the basic Democratic and GOP ideas are stark — and the two sides have increasingly hardened their positions in this election year.
AP – Nebraska’s Democratic senator says he will join Republicans in opposing a union lawyer’s nomination to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.
AP – Republicans gave a chilly reception Monday to President Barack Obama’s invitation to discuss health care in a bipartisan, televised setting later this month, part of the White House effort to revive the stalled legislation.
Politico – Alabama Republican had placed procedural roadblock on more than 70 executive nominees.
Politico – GOP says they’re open to compromise — as long as Obama tears up the bills. Dems say, not a chance.
AP – Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday following complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77.
AP – Democrats in Illinois are getting a political do-over: the chance to pick a new lieutenant governor nominee themselves now that the primary winner dropped out of the race because of revelations about his checkered past.
PUBLICATION DATE: Mon, 08 Feb 2010
Clemons riffs on FT piece questioning Obama’s lack of governing success.
AP – Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama has released the “holds” he had placed on every one of President Barack Obama’s nominees, his office said Monday.
National News