111th Congress
House Kills Plan to Close Guantanamo
May 24th
The Public Record 5/24/10 Posted by Andy Worthington A U.S. Army soldier with Echo Company, 629th Military Intelligence Battalion, keeps watch from a guard tower at the Joint Task Force Guantanamo detention center on Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 13, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy President Obama’s hopes of closing [...]
Today’s Broad Brush Issues
Feb 26th
Campaign for America’s Future
By Bill Scher
February 26, 2010 – 8:36am ET
After Summit, Dems Move To Pass Bill Without GOP
Summit ends with presidential call for action, despite continued GOP obstruction. W. Post: “President Obama declared Thursday that the time for debate over health-care reform has come to an end, closing an unusual seven-hour summit with congressional [...]
At summit, Republicans prove they aren’t putting America’s health first
Feb 26th
Republicans say the country can’t afford President Obama’s health-care proposals. (Marvin Joseph/the Washington Post)
By Steven Pearlstein
Friday, February 26, 2010
I’m not sure what else was accomplished at Thursday’s Blair House summit, but surely one result is that we learned what Republican “leaders” really think about health care and health insurance.
The most important thing Republicans think is [...]
Obama suggests extending debate as way to pass health reform
Feb 6th
By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 6, 2010
President Obama sketched out an alternative approach to passing health-care legislation that would enlist Republicans and potentially extend debate into the spring, a strategy seemingly in conflict with the fast-track talks among Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Speaking to members of the Democratic National Committee on Thursday night, Obama [...]
Ditching health reform will only dig us into a deeper deficit
Feb 5th
washingtonpost.com By David S. Broder
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The economic collapse of 2008 and 2009 did so much damage to the United States that only now can we begin to measure the devastation.
A sentence buried in the budget that President Obama submitted to Congress this week screamed for attention. “Household net worth fell from the third [...]
