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Interview with Rep. Paul Ryan

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 04:36 PM EST   [*New!*]

VAN SUSTEREN: Congressman, nice to see you, sir. REP. PAUL RYAN, R - WIS.: Good to be with you. Thanks for coming over. VAN SUSTEREN: I can't help but notice over your right shoulder a Green Bay Packer helmet. RYAN: I wanted to make you feel comfortable and make you feel at home. VAN SUSTEREN: Well, indeed, it does. All right, health care -- are we any closer? Have you heard anything in the last 24 hours to indicate that it's any closer to being resolved? RYAN: They are still anywhere from 5 to 15 votes down. So let's say it's around 10 votes down. Lots of horse trading...

Obama's Remarks with President Preval

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 04:34 PM EST   [*New!*]

12:01 P.M. EST PRESIDENT OBAMA: Please be seated. Good afternoon, everybody. And on behalf of the American people, I want to welcome President Préval, the First Lady, and their delegation to the United States. The President and I have just concluded a very productive meeting in the Oval Office on the urgent and overriding challenges before us -- helping the people of Haiti as they recover and rebuild after one of the most devastating natural disasters ever to strike our hemisphere. Mr. President, as I did when I spoke to you in those first days after the earthquake, I again want...

Weak Tea or Strong Tea

American.com  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 03:52 PM EST

Too many of those currently ‘analyzing’ the Tea Party movement seem to have no genuine interest in grappling with its potential historical significance.

One Afternoon in Washington

Iowahawk  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 02:57 PM EST

WH Sources: Help Us Rahm, You're Our Only Hope by Dana Milbank Amid fading polls and a stalled legislative agenda, a growing chorus of White House insiders say that the fate of Barack Obama's presidential legacy now depends on expanding...

Democrats, Reconciliation and 1/6th of the U.S. Economy

Canada Free Press  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 02:49 PM EST

As Obama and Emanuel work around the clock to strong-arm Democrats opposed to nationalized medicine, causing moderate Democrats like Evan Bayh and Eric Massa to retire or resign, the clock ticks on Obama’s window of opportunity.

Cornhusker Casualty

Wall St. Journal - Opinion  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 02:12 PM EST

Ben Nelson's justifications for voting in favor of ObamaCare just keep getting more convoluted.

Colleen LaRose: The New American terrorist

Canada Free Press  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 01:36 PM EST

A four-count count indictment issued against Colleen Renee LaRose, 46, formerly of 429 Main Street, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, was unsealed yesterday by federal authorities in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The indictment charges LaRose with one count each of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft.  The indictment also references five other co-conspirators, including one who resides in the U.S., although none of the five were identified by name.

Best of the Web Today: Justice and the 'al Qaeda 7'

Wall St. Journal - Opinion  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 01:13 PM EST

Lawyers shouldn't be 'demonized with impunity,' says the New York Times. So why did the Times do just that?

Pelosi—“Pass It [Obamacare] to find out what is in it.”

Canada Free Press  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 01:00 PM EST

Is there anything more contrary to the essence of America than Nancy Pelosi’s statement:

Pawlenty's Populist Tea Party

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 10:48 AM EST

'America is in trouble,' Tim Pawlenty warned Saturday. 'Tyranny' is possible. In fact, it's 'creeping.' And, in case you thought otherwise, the nation is 'worth fighting for.' The (once) mild-mannered Minnesota governor was speaking before about 600 Republicans in Dallas. It was Pawlenty's latest audition for the part of presidential candidate. The 'Sam's Club Republican' has long been the GOP's sedate populist. But what Pawlenty lacks in charisma he increasingly compensates for with rhetoric. Last month in Washington,...

Eric Massa's naked politics

Howard Kurtz  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 09:53 AM EST

Not since the Alfred Hitchcock movie 'Psycho' has there been such a famous shower scene.

What Happened to Obama's Middle Path on Health Reform

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 08:51 AM EST

WASHINGTON -- Whatever the legislative fate of health reform -- now in the hands of a few besieged House Democrats -- the health reformers have failed in their argument. Their proposal has divided Democrats while uniting Republicans, returned American politics to well-worn ideological ruts, employed legislative tactics that smack of corruption, squandered the president's public standing, lowered public regard for Congress to French revolutionary levels, sucked the oxygen from other agenda items, re-engaged the abortion battle, produced freaks and prodigies of nature such as a Republican...

How Much Schools Really Spend

The Insider Online  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 08:21 AM EST

Public schools are keeping the public in the dark about how much money they really spend, says Adam Schaeffer in a new Cato Institute report. Schaeffer examined the budgets for 18 school districts around the country, including those in the...

The Democrats' Pickett's Charge

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 07:16 AM EST

And now the House Democrats line up at the instruction of their blind commanders for a final charge into glory as they battle to foist a health care system on a country that neither wants it nor can afford it. The charge may or may not reach its objective. But one thing is certain: The carnage among those who vote for health care will remind Civil War buffs of Pickett's Charge on the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg. As a French general who witnessed the spectacle said, 'C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre.' (It is magnificent, but it's not war.)...

Pelosi, Obama demonizing of health care industry exaggerated and unfair

RenewAmerica  | Links  | Related | Mar 10, 2010 05:59 AM EST

(James Lambert) - Unlike the powerful Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), I am thankful for the Healthcare Industry. Several years ago, I shopped around to secure a new healthcare provider for my family, as the monthly premium expenses were increasing. I had to find a way of lowering my monthly health care costs...