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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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