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LiveBlog for Thursday, December 3, 2009
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about Afghanistan, health care reform, and the Jobs Summit.
• Comedian Tom Kenny calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about Spongebob Squarepants’ new Christmas song.
• Hilary Rosen, Editor at Large of the Huffington Post, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about Afghanistan, health care reform, and today’s Jobs Summit.
• Obama administration officials are hoping that today’s Jobs Summit, where he will talk job creation with business and labor leaders at the White House, will let President Obama defend his administration’s handling of the economy. No major policy announcements are expected.
• Amid soaring budget deficits, President Obama is running into congressional qualms over how to pay for his troop buildup in Afghanistan. The $30 billion cost is causing concern on both sides of the aisle. Still, leaders in Congress predicted yesterday that Obama would prevail in winning funding for the surge.
• The politically potent AARP announced yesterday that they are supporting the Democrats’ $460 billion in Medicare cuts to help pay for landmark health insurance legislation.
• White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi last night declined an invitation to testify before Congress about their caper last week at the president’s first state dinner.
Tags: AARP, Afghanistan, Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Hilary Rosen, Jobs Summit, Medicare, Spongebob Squarepants, Tom Kenny, White House Crashers
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LiveBlog for Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the economy.
• Ted Massinello, President of the USA Coffee Company, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about the pro-union and made-in-the-USA aspects of his company.
• Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, the economy, and jobs.
• Lamar Waldron, JFK conspiracy expert and author of “Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination,” calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about his book.
• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled long-awaited legislation last night to extend health care coverage to all but 6% of eligible Americans and bar private industry from denying insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions. The bill would reduce deficits by $127 billion over a decade.
• A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims.
• Disappointing forecasts from technology companies and an unexpected drop in home construction added to worries about the economy and sent stocks modestly lower yesterday. The Dow fell 11 points at close yesterday.
Tags: Allyson Schwartz, Dow Jones, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform, Hurricane Katrina, Lamar Waldron, Robert Andrews, Ted Massinello, USA Coffee Company
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LiveBlog for Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the encouraging signs in the economy.
• Charlie Pierce, author of “Idiot America,” calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about Election Day, health care reform, Afghanistan, and the economy.
• Today is Election Day in many states. Polls are close in the New Jersey governor’s race, Dem Creigh Deeds trails GOP-er Bob McDonnell in the polls by double digits in the Virginia gubernatorial race, Conservative Doug Hoffman leads Dem Bill Owens in NY’s 23rd Congressional District race, Maine voters are being asked if gay marriage should remain legal, and Washington State voters are deciding on a domestic partnerships law.
• While House leaders are moving toward a vote on health care legislation by the end of the week, enough Dems are threatening to oppose the measure over the issue of abortion to create a question about its passage. A bloc of Dems are worried that the bill could lead to public funding of the procedure.
• President Obama called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to congratulate him on being named the winner of that country’s election, and urged him to work to improve governance and end corruption there.
• The Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Yankees 8-6 in Game 5 of the World Series last night, forcing a Game 6 at Yankee Stadium tomorrow night.
Tags: Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Bill Owens, Bob McDonnell, Charlie Pierce, Creigh Deeds, Doug Hoffman, Hamid Karzai, Health Care Reform, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies
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LiveBlog for Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
• Lester Brown, Founder of the Earth Policy Institute and author of “Plan B 4.0,” calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the need for immediate environmental action.
• Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Humpdays With Hal.”
• Comedian Margaret Cho calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about her upcoming shows and the release of her new concert DVD, “Beautiful.”
• President Obama has sought to spend no more than $900 billion over a 10-year period on health care reform. Yesterday, however, House Dem leaders received a new cost estimate of $871 billion from congressional budget umpires who measured a bill with a a robust public option.
• President Obama spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday and congratulated him for accepting the report of the UN-backed Election Complaint Commission which ruled that he garnered under 50% of the vote in the August election after vote fraud had been factored in, mandating a recount.
• Oprah Winfrey announced yesterday that Sarah Palin will appear on her show on Monday, November 16th.
Tags: Afghanistan, Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Earth Policy Institute, Hal Sparks, Hamid Karzai, Health Care Reform, Karl Frisch, Lester Brown, Margaret Cho, Media Matters for America, Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin
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LiveBlog for Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Charlie Pierce, author of “Idiot America” calls in at 7:33am Pacific to riff on the news of the day.
• Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) calls in at 8:33am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• President Obama yesterday filled the White House Rose Garden with doctors supportive of his health care overhaul, saying “nobody has more credibility with the American people on this issue than you do.” The Senate Finance Committee is expected to approve its long-debated bill this week.
• President Obama will not walk away from the flagging war in Afghanistan, the White House declared yesterday amid intense administration debate over choices that could help define his presidency in the first year as commander in chief.
• David Letterman, days after revealing on air that he’d been sexually involved with women from his show, apologized to his wife on last night’s “Late Show,” saying she had been “horribly hurt by my behavior” and flat-out stating those affairs “are in the past.”
Tags: Afghanistan, Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Charlie Pierce, David Letterman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ed Perlmutter, Health Care Reform
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LiveBlog for Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific for a live edition of Right Wing World.
• Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Humpdays with Hal.”
• Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus yesterday unveiled changes to his compromise health care proposal intended to alleviate the concerns of fellow Dems as the panel began debating more than 560 proposed amendments to the measure. Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) both introduced amendments to include a public option in the Baucus plan.
• World leaders, including President Obama, converged yesterday in New York to focus on climate change, with the clock ticking down toward a summit this year in Denmark, where a global climate change pact is to be signed. Negotiations for the global pact have stalled and yesterday’s gathering was aimed at jump-starting those talks.
• Prodding Israel and the Palestinian Authority to restart talks aimed at a permanent resolution of their conflict, President Obama dropped a demand for an Israeli settlement freeze.
Tags: Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Climate Change, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hal Sparks, Israel, Jay Rockefeller, Karl Frisch, Max Baucus, Media Matters for America, Palestine
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LiveBlog for Friday, August 21, 2009
Friday, August 21st, 2009
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform and Afghanistan.
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform and his town hall meetings.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins Steph in studio in NYC at 8:05am Pacific for more discussions of everything politics and pop culture.
• President Obama took his health care message to talk radio yesterday, telling listeners of a Philadelphia host that he wants to overhaul the nation’s health care system out of necessity rather than politics.
• Senate health care negotiators agreed late last night to ignore the increasingly strident rhetoric from GOP and Dem leaders and to keep working toward a bill that can win broad support from the rank-and-file in both parties, according to sources familiar with the talks.
• Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge says he successfully countered an effort by Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to raise the nation’s terror alert level in the days before the 2004 presidential vote.
Tags: Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Donald Rumsfeld, Health Care Reform, Joe Sestak, John Ashcroft, John Fugelsang, Tom Ridge
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LiveBlog for Thursday, August 20, 2009
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) joins us live in studio at 11:05am Eastern for an entire hour of rudeness about the day’s news!
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will all be calling in TOMORROW to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 11:05am TOMORROW to hang and talk about all things politics and pop culture.
• Under the menacing threat of violence from the Taliban, Afghans headed to the polls today in the war-ravaged nation’s second-ever national election. Thousands of NATO and Afghan soldiers provided security at the polls and more than 30 observer groups were on hand to monitor the voting.
• President Obama appealed yesterday to faith-based groups to help garner support for his plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Obama urged the listeners to reject information about his plans, noting, “There are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness.”
• A cancer-stricken Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) has written a poignant letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress, instead of the special election now required. Kennedy wrote, “It is vital for this commonwealth to have two voices speaking for the needs of its citizens and two votes in the Senate.”
Tags: Afghanistan, Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Health Care Reform, Joe Sestak, John Fugelsang, Lee Papa, Ted Kennedy, The Rude Pundit
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LiveBlog for Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
• Peter Harbage, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• At a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire yesterday, President Obama complained about opposition scare tactics against a proposed health care overhaul, but said failing to fix the problems in the current system would be the scariest outcome of all.
• A hostile crowd shouted questions and made angry statements yesterday at a town hall meeting on health care in Pennsylvania led by Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA). At one point, Specter shouted into his microphone that demonstrators disrupting the proceedings would be thrown out.
• Under criticism for appearing extravagant, the House of Representatives is dropping a plan to make the Pentagon buy more civilian-style jets than it requested. The jets would have been used to transport D.C. officials, including members of Congress.
• Former White House adviser Karl Rove was deeply involved in the firing of a U.S. attorney in New Mexico, according to White House e-mails and transcripts of closed-door testimony released yesterday.
Tags: Allyson Schwartz, Arlen Specter, Barack Obama, Center for American Progress, Karl Rove, Pentagon, Peter Harbage
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LiveBlog for Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald McEntee calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about their grassroots effort to get health care reform passed.
• Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific to talk about all things politics and pop culture.
• The White House shot down concerns yesterday that middle-class families may face a tax increase in order to combat rising deficits and a struggling economy. The concern came after the Obama administration’s two top money men floated the idea that tax increases to fund the nation’s economic recovery could extend into the middle class.
• Frustrated with the pace of bipartisan talks, Dem leaders yesterday promised to push a sweeping health care bill through the Senate whether they get GOP support or not.
• Former President Bill Clinton made an unannounced visit to North Korea this morning on a trip seen as a mission to win the release of two jailed American reporters and to ease tensions over Pyongyang’s recent nuclear defiance.
Tags: AFSCME, Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Gerald McEntee, Hal Sparks, Health Care Reform, Joe Courtney, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner
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