Happy Hour Roundup
* This one’s pretty funny. Senator Chuck Grassley says he wants Sarah Palin to come to Iowa to campaign, but only under certain conditions:
“The answer is, if she can raise a lot of money for me, yes.”
Tell us what you really think, Senator…
* Obama’s potent political operation, Organizing for America, just reaffirmed the President’s commitment to a public health care plan, blasting out an email calling on recipients to call select members of Congress and demand “the choice of a robust public insurance option.”
* Sam Stein has some must-read quotes from two Senators, Ron Wyden and Bernie Sanders, who say they don’t mind taking pressure from the left. Imagine that! Paging DiFi….
* Add Senator Evan Bayh to the list of “centrist” Dems who are defending the sanctity of the GOP filibuster.
* John Boehner keeps taking it on the chin for his stimulus claims.
* But Boehner is fighting back, saying administration claims that they didn’t know how bad the economy was amount to “the greatest fabrication I have seen since I have been in Congress.”
* The “Group of Eight” nations will issue a statement that censures Iran and condemns its hunt for nukes but doesn’t call for sanctions or any other action.
* And GOP Rep Steve King explains why he was the only member of Congress to oppose a measure acknowledging the role of slaves in building the U.S. Capitol.
This blog’s homepage is here. RSS feed here. Twitter feed here. Email me here.
John Boehner says that the administration claims that they didn’t know how bad the economy was amount to “the greatest fabrication I have seen since I have been in Congress.” Greater than WMD’s in Iraq? I don’t think so.
“….the greatest fabrication I have seen since I have been in Congress.”
Wasn’t Boehnerhe in Congress when Bush & Cheney were
fabricating the Iraq-Has-WMDs argument to force us into war??
“Steve King: I Opposed “Yet Another Bill” To Commemorate Slavery, In Order To Protect Judeo-Christian Heritage”
Of course! Because our Judeo-Christian heritage was all about slavery. Even the Quakers owned slaves – they just didn’t like to break up families. O yes, I promise the Quakers did – up to the 18th century, anyway.
And burned Native Americans alive, but that’s a different resolution – and not one I’ve never seen suggested, either.
oops! I didn’t read the previous post by JCtx before posting. My apologies.
Hey Greg, since Obama’s own PAC is now hitting “select members of Congress” to support a public option doesn’t that put the bed the meme that he was upset with liberal and progressive groups for doing the same? Or am I to believe they are only targeting Republicans. That doesn’t seem plausible to me since no Republican has said they are even willing to consider a public option unless it has a trigger.
Kudlow, over at NRO, yesterday wrote: ” I’m all for Gov. Sarah Palin’s move over the weekend. It’s time for her to get out of Alaska’s small-town, ankle-biting politics. Now she can take her show on the road. This is a woman brimming with charisma and raw political appeal. That’s why everyone’s afraid of her, and attacking her. In other words, Sarah Palin has the power to reinvigorate conservatism and republicanism.” Yes. One hesitates to argue with a genius. As Kudlow suggests, there’s little to honor and much to despise regarding small-town, rural America. It is a paltry and desolate place that, at its best, reaches perhaps up to the ankles of metropolitan America and, when it has attained that height, might try to take a bite or two of its betters. Quite like fleas, really.