Hillary Clinton has been admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital for treatment of a blood clot which apparently resulted from her recent concussion. And that’s all it says. No location of the clot cited, which is worrisome. She’s being treated with anti-coagulants and will be for 48 hours.
Bill Clinton never ceases to amaze me. Not only does he have a grasp of more facts than almost any politician I’ve ever watched/heard, he’s got the skill to make them interesting to his audience. He learned a lot from that overly-long and boring speech nominating Michael Dukakis in 1988. He’s got that high school …
It has certainly earned its 9% approval rating. Ezra Klein says “Let us count the ways.” Here are the bullet points; click over to read the unpleasant details. It’s not passing laws It’s hideously unpopular It’s incredibly polarized It has set back economic recovery It presided over the first downgrade of America’s credit rating in …
Joe Biden is one of the few politicians who actually understands grief and understands how those suffering it feel, and more importantly than that, knows how to talk to them. You may have heard a clip of this, but here’s the entire 20-minute speech he gave the other day to an event hosted by the …
Not the Chris Matthews tv show, but Senator Reid telling Republican Senators “Nice little JOBS bill you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it. So vote on these 17 district judge nominations or watch it die.” Good. The Republican Senate under Mitch McConnell has been more filibuster-happy than any other in …
The word is that Obama will announce a new deficit reduction plan this week, incorporating some of the ideas from the so-called Gang of Six senators who’ve been working from the (discredited) Fiscal Commission plan (that’s Bowles-Simpson) to create a new model. After months of private discussions, the tentative agreement among the three Republican and …
I get that when you’re faced with hostage-takers who are perfectly willing to kill their hostage and you really want to keep the hostage alive you have to give in to most of the hostage-takers’ demands. I really do. But you don’t, for cryin’ out loud, then praise the deal as historic. Rather, you say …
I’m trying to remember the last time Democrats in Congress (besides Anthony Weiner) ever publicly bad-mouthed the Republicans and their loony economic beliefs. I mean, there was “voodoo economics,” but that was Republican George H.W. Bush when he was running against Ronald Reagan in 1980. Time after time I’ve watched as the Republicans get much …
News Item: Wisconsin Senate Republicans ratcheted up the pressure . . . declaring the Democrats “in contempt” of Senate rules and authorizing their arrests to force them back to the chamber. This is getting more and more bizarre, isn’t it?