AP – U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana says a health care overhaul will happen this year even if Republicans back out of bipartisan talks under growing public pressure and that the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy could help hold together a compromise deal.
Archive | August, 2009
Democratic senator predicts health care overhaul this year (AP)
Posted on 31 August 2009.
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Blago’s book of blame (Politico)
Posted on 31 August 2009.
Politico – Rod Blagojevich’s biography is called “The Governor,” but it could easily be retitled “The Victim.”
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Rare but deadly meningitis: Don’t forget kid shots (AP)
Posted on 31 August 2009.
AP – Fever, chills, vomiting: It starts like a stomach bug or the flu. But bacterial meningitis can go on to kill terrifyingly fast one of the few infections in the U.S. where someone can feel fine in the morning and be dead by night. And prime targets are tweens, teens and college freshmen.
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A ‘civilian surge’ to Afghanistan is just starting (AP)
Posted on 31 August 2009.
AP – Five months after President Barack Obama ordered a dramatic increase in American civilian experts in Afghanistan to undergird a new military push, the so-called civilian surge is moving too slowly, U.S. officials and outside experts warn.
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New blitz for health care reform
Posted on 31 August 2009.
President Obama’s supporters hope to recapture the energy of last year’s triumphant election campaign in a bid to regain control of the health-care debate.
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Mass. governor backs interim successor
Posted on 31 August 2009.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick threw his support Monday behind a proposal to appoint an interim successor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy and also set a date of Jan. 19 for a special election to fill the term that ends in 2012.
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Another Sen. Kennedy in Massachusetts?
Posted on 31 August 2009.
Another Kennedy just might occupy the Kennedy seat in the Senate.
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NYT: U.S. sees profits from bank bailout
Posted on 31 August 2009.
Nearly a year after the federal rescue of the biggest U.S. banks, taxpayers have begun seeing profits from the hundreds of billions of dollars in aid that many critics thought might never be seen again.
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Ridge downplays flap about terror alerts
Posted on 31 August 2009.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday people “are hyperventilating” about his assertion that politics played a role in talk of raising the terror alert before the 2004 elections.
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Analysis: Bush nominees in top Obama posts
Posted on 31 August 2009.
Analysis: For all the Republican howling about Barack Obama radically steering the government to the left and leading the nation toward socialism, some of his major appointments are Republican men and women of the middle.
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