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22 March 2010

Texas one of the states to challenge healthcare constitutionality

Abbott announces that Texas will challenge the constitutionality of the healthcare law.

I wonder if they'll hire Ted Cruz. Hard to think of anyone better.

Posted by Evan @ 03/22/10 04:04 PM | Comments (1)

Hutchison to run for re-election?

RELEASE: Hutchison Joins DeMint In Effort to Repeal ObamaCare just hit my mailbox from KBH's Senate office.

My first reaction: is this a sign that Senator Hutchison is planning to run for re-election?

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the Senator is outraged by ObamaCare. Not only is the substance horrible, but the process has stunk, and no Republican can quite believe how Obama has been able to just glide by without being called out by the media for break all of the process changes he promised.* Pretty much every Republican of any stripe -- liberal, moderate, or conservative -- can't really believe it.

But if KBH is going to run for re-election, she needs an issue. An issue to protect her from the right but even more importantly, she needs a reason to break her promise. And, y'know, socializing almost 20% of the American economy is certainly a pretty large issue.

* You remember early in the presidential race when he made process a huge part of his pitch? It was a big part of his moderate appeal, plus it certified his good government credentials.

Posted by Evan @ 03/22/10 03:49 PM | Comments (1)

Drip, drip

Ratcliffe, Chron:

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White earned more than $2.6 million serving on the board of a gas well servicing company that now is part of a congressional investigation into possible groundwater contamination.

White, who made cleaning Houston's polluted air a hallmark of his tenure as Houston's mayor, has been on the board of BJ Services Co. since 2003, the year he was elected, earning more than $627,000.

Posted by Evan @ 03/22/10 03:40 PM | Comments (0)

Post-election tidbits

I know I'm late to this, but KBH felt like W let her down by not backing her up on the bailout or endorsing her.

She did plan to quit the runoff if she trailed by more than 20% though.

Posted by Evan @ 03/22/10 03:29 PM | Comments (0)

The Howard Dean wing of the....oh wait

The Texas Tribune profiles the Coffee Party:

Mares knows that if coffee is the opposite of tea, and the Tea Party has a conservative bent, the public will quickly assume that the Coffee Party is a home for disaffected Democrats. "That's a misconception right now," he said. "We aren't any wing of the Democratic Party -- not liberals, progressives, or moderates. We are strictly down that middle road."

That may be true, but there certainly seemed to be some consensus among those that showed up at Grace Coffee Café. "I suspect everyone in here voted for Obama," said retired World War II veteran Ralph Bender, getting no disagreement. "I also suspect we are all disillusioned." By a show of hands, the group also unanimously supported including a public option in healthcare reform legislation.

One of my favorite things about liberals is how they hate to admit that they are liberals. Heck, even the ones who don't claim to be moderates had to invent a new label for themselves.

Posted by Evan @ 03/22/10 03:19 PM | Comments (0)

If I'm not mistaken, Paul Sadler has run for Congress twice. I'm thinking he's not planning on running again if he's saying things like this:

Paul Sadler is executive director of the Wind Coalition, an Austin-based advocacy group. Sadler, a former Democratic lawmaker, credits Republican Gov. Rick Perry with a wind-friendly environment: "Governor Perry has been the most supportive elected official in the nation for wind."

Posted by Evan @ 03/22/10 03:12 PM | Comments (0)

Yikes

Apropos of the healthcare bill, the bond market now thinks it's safer to lend to corporations than to Uncle Sam. It's fairly safe to say that's revolutionary.

The mere idea that corporations are now more trustworthy than the American federal government is simply incredible. Finance textbooks for generations have taught that the risk-free rate is the Treasury rate. That's no longer true. The deficit and debt is so big that it is now risky to lend to the feds.

Obama's spendthriftiness is seriously putting us in peril.

Posted by Evan @ 03/22/10 03:01 PM | Comments (0)

60 votes?

Back during the days when Republicans were threatening to end the use of the filibuster for judicial nominees, I argued that the best reason to do so was that Democrats would be sure to throw the filibuster in the trash as soon as they came to power.

Guess what? They did. Those media types frothing at the mouth over the relatively-limited exception to the filibuster that was proposed? I don't seem to hear much from them these days.

Posted by Evan @ 03/22/10 02:53 PM | Comments (0)

15 March 2010

Or as they call it in the UK, Race of a Lifetime

I picked up Game Change last night, and I'm about 2/3 of the way through it now.

Humility wasn't Judith [Giuliani]'s strong suit. Nor was leaving Rudy to his business. She called him constantly when he was traveling without her, no matter where he was or what he was doing. On several occasions the calls arrived when Giuliani was meeting with donors or making speeches. He invariably picked up the phone. "Hello, dear," he said when she interrupted him while he was on stage addressing the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association. "I'm talking to the members of the NRA right now. Would you like to say hello?"

His staff concluded that Giuliani had no choice but to answer Judith's calls, because ignoring her risked dire consequences -- more dire than wrecking some speech. To the NRA members, Rudy apologized, but added, "It's alot better that way."

Interesting if this is really true, and I tend to believe that the book was reported pretty well. This was one of those moments that people looked at Rudy differently. Interrupting a speech to take a call from your wife? It would be a disaster for pretty much everyone not named Rudy, but for him it was a huge plus. Interesting to see that it wasn't actually a planned moment.

Perry endorsing Giuliani is still one of the more baffling things about that race to me. Well, that and how badly McCain ran his campaign from start to finish.

Posted by Evan @ 03/15/10 03:39 PM | Comments (0)

13 March 2010

Could Kay Bailey Hutchison win re-election if she ran?

That's the title of a coming post.

Posted by Evan @ 03/13/10 01:24 AM | Comments (0)

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