Politics Links
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 21, 2010 at 6:15PM EDT
- Quote: Today's defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more disappointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on television and radio. For them, it's mission accomplished. For the cause they purport to represent, it's Waterloo all right: ours.
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 15, 2010 at 12:32AM EDT
- Quote: Marco Rubio was barely solvent as a young lawmaker climbing his way to the top post in the Florida House, but special interest donations and political perks allowed him to spend big money with little scrutiny.
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 1, 2010 at 4:31PM EST
- Quote: The filibuster, using seemingly endless debate to block legislative action, has become entrenched like a dandelion tap root in the midst of the shrill partisanship gripping Washington.
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on February 28, 2010 at 10:47AM EST
- Quote: The lawmakers now investigating Toyota's recall include a senator who was so eager to lure the Japanese automaker to his state that he tramped along through fields as its executives scouted plant sites, and a congresswoman who owes much of her wealth to a Toyota supplier.
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on February 26, 2010 at 10:26AM EST
- Quote: As usual, the quality of the comments got worse the closer you got to the party leadership. The Democratic Senate leader, Harry Reid, gave remarks that veered between the misleading and the incoherent. Statements from Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, were partisan spin. The Republican leaders, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, were smart enough to stand back and let Senator Lamar Alexander lead the way, which he did genially and intelligently. While Alexander was speaking, Reid and Pelosi wouldn't even deign to look at him.
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on February 25, 2010 at 6:24PM EST
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Chris said:
Sen. Tom Coburn and Pres. Barack Obama were the winners of today's health summit. John McCain and Harry Reid came off worse. Cable didn't do well, either.
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on February 25, 2010 at 6:18PM EST
- Quote: Too little Obama? Unlike the question and answer events, this summit features Democratic congressional leaders who just had to give long speeches that added little to the politics or policy. It's necessary for optics, but when even MSNBC cuts away whenever, say, Steny Hoyer starts speaking, it's telling.
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on February 25, 2010 at 3:17PM EST
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Chris said:
Politifact does some real-time fact checking on today's health reform summit.
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on February 25, 2010 at 2:46PM EST
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Chris said:
Taegan Goddard talks about whether Democrats have the votes yet on health reform.
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- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on February 25, 2010 at 2:19PM EST
- Quote: For almost a century, presidents and members of Congress have tried and failed to provide universal health benefits to Americans. The cost of health care has spiraled; in 2008, one in six dollars was spent on health care, and an estimated 46 million people were without coverage.
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