The Art of the Washington Photobomb
On Capitol Hill, the web meme is a daily fact of life
On Capitol Hill, a popular web meme is a daily fact of life.
Why Rubio Will Probably Walk
The senator may be too risk-averse to strike a deal on immigration
The risk-averse senator is unlikely to strike a deal on immigration.
Forgive Me Mentor, For I Will Run
How Marco Rubio could end Jeb Bush's electoral career
How Marco could end Jeb's electoral career.
The psycho-sexual ordeal of reporting in Washington.
They All Look the Same!
A Hill reporter's guide to D.C.'s most indistinguishable politicians
A Hill reporter's guide to telling DC's most indistinguishable politicians apart.
CBC Will Vote for Financial Reform
Over the last couple of weeks, tensions between the Congressional Black Caucus and the Obama administration boiled over, with ten CBC members on the financial services committee skipping a key vote on regulatory reform legislation and threatening to scuttle the reform bill altogether if the president didn’t take greater steps to addresses unemployment and home foreclosures in the African American community. But it appears that Obama’s job speech yesterday did the trick.
In Defense of Sarah Palin (Kinda)
Jonathan Martin brings us yet another former McCain adviser stepping forward to accuse Sarah Palin of being a dunce. In this telling, Palin canceled a sit down with Spanish-language channel Univision because she felt uncomfortable talking about Hispanic issues.
Can't Get A Flu Shot? Don't Blame Obama
Conservatives have been quick to blame the administration for the slow delivery of H1N1 vaccine. Not long after Obama declared the swine flu pandemic a national emergency last month--a measure that cleared the way for hospitals to make special preparations for infected patients--Missouri Representative Roy Blunt pounced on the administration’s “onerous regulatory and legal environment” as a cause for the vaccine delays. In the Weekly Standard last week, Bill Kristol held up the swine flu response as an example of the coming “big government health care” boondoggle.
Another Word on the Cervix
Like Michelle, we’re happy to see The New York Times giving front-page space to the new recommendations for mammograms and pap smears. And we, too, hope that the revised pap smear guidelines aren’t subjected to the same shameless politicization that quickly engulfed the mammogram ones. But we want to quibble with Michelle's point that “cervical cancer simply doesn't terrify women en masse the way breast cancer does.” Breast cancer is indeed a much bigger threat to women.
Robocalls
Politico reports that residents in New York’s 23rd district are getting hammered by them. TPM’s Eric Kleefeld has the goods on the messages recorded by Giuliani and Pataki. “[N]ow that Dede Scozzafava has decided to suspend her campaign, voting for Doug is the only way we can stop Nancy Pelosi from gaining one more liberal vote for higher taxes, higher federal deficits, and government-run health care,” Giuliani says. “A vote for Owens is just another vote for Nancy Pelosi’s agenda,” Pataki adds.
