According to a recent Fox news poll, her backing for the GOP nomination has swelled to 70 percent among party voters, anchor Byron Harlan said.
According to the poll, the other top candidates for a 2012 bid on the Republican ticket are Mike Huckabee, with 63 percent and Mitt Romney with 60 percent.
The Senate measure faces a key procedural vote Saturday evening, and Harry Reid is still working to assemble the requisite 60 votes. Politico says Reid and fellow Democrats "projected confidence they could clear the first hurdle for health reform." The Washington Post writes that "a tepid assessment of the public insurance plan he crafted emerged as the latest potential obstacle" to passage. USA Today notes that the public option in the Senate bill "would cover less than 1.5% of the population," raising questions about how much impact the provision will actually have, positive or negative.
The geniuses who wrote Texas’ gay marriage ban may have accidentally banned all marriage in the state, according to one Houston lawyer. Subsection B of the ban, a constitutional amendment ratified in 2005, states, “This state…may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.” The intent was to prevent even civil unions for gay couples—but it doesn’t actually specify the “gay” part.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviewed Huffington Post blogger Frank Schaeffer on her show Tuesday night about the rising tide of anti-Obama fervor that is religious in nature.
Maddow cited a Christian Science Monitor article about a new anti-Obama slogan that has been merchandised on everything from bumper stickers to t-shirts to teddy bears, which reads, "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."
The slogan refers to a biblical psalm that reads, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." The psalm that immediately follows it in the bible reads, "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
Frank Schaeffer, author of Patience With God, talked about the ramping up of religious rhetoric, and the correlating of President Obama with the unjust kings of ancient Israel, "who should be slaughtered if not by God then by just men."
Republican senators on Wednesday blocked an effort to debate a bill that would prevent credit card companies from raising interest rates ahead of new regulations coming into force next year.
Murphy is already on the receiving end of a TV ad barrage critical of his vote for the House plan earlier this month, an ad campaign he says is being paid for by the insurance companies through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because they are afraid of competition.
"I have no doubt that this is being paid for, in part, by the insurance industry, the drug industry, and a lot of the for profit health care industry that has been fighting against health care reform for decades," Murphy said.
Dobbs was asked by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly if he is considering a Senate run in New Jersey.
"A lot of things are on my mind, I'm not going to be coy about this," Dobbs said, though he neglected to answer the question directly. He went on to say he is "thinking about a lot of opportunities."
The health insurance plan offered to employees of the Republican National Committee includes coverage for elective abortions, a fact that could compromise the party's insistence that abortion be left out of any health care reform measure.
Since 1991, the RNC -- the group that co-ordinates Republican activities at the national level -- has been on a health insurance plan from insurer Cigna that offers elective abortion coverage, and the RNC signed up for the coverage even though it was an optional part of the package, says a report at Politico.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Pfizer’s abandonment of its plans for New London render moot the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on eminent domain in Kelo v. New London. In the case, the city of New London had sought “eminent domain” power to seize the houses of several people living in a run-down neighborhood. The land was to be transformed into Pfizer’s new facility. The city argued it needed to bulldoze blighted areas in order to redevelop them. Susette Kelo argued the government should not have the right to take her home.
The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves.
Connecticut residents support giving people the option to buy health insurance from a government plan by a 64-30 majority, according to a September, 2009 Quinnipiac poll.
So why is Lieberman so against a public option?
Fact: Two of Lieberman’s top 10 campaign contributors in his 2006 senate re-election campaign were large insurance companies (Aetna and Purdue Pharma).
Is it any wonder why he doesn’t care about the will of his people???
It is high time to tell him we’ve had enough! He needs to get out of bed with the insurance companies and do what is right for Connecticut and what is right for America.
On Wednesday, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported the first confirmed case of H1N1 in a house pet, a 13-year-old domestic shorthaired cat. The animal likely contracted the virus from its owners, veterinarians say, since two of the three family members living in the cat's household had recently suffered from influenza-like illness. Late last week, when the cat came down with flu-like symptoms — malaise, loss of appetite — its owners brought it to Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine for treatment. The family mentioned to the vet that they had also recently battled illness, which led to testing the pet for H1N1.
If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, including health-care reform. But now, one year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) lost the presidential election, the man who was by McCain's side as the campaign's top health-care guru remains unemployed -- and his COBRA health coverage is running out.
Irony of ironies, it gets worse. Holtz-Eakin, who is about to start shopping for insurance on the individual market, is 51. And he has one of those pesky "preexisting conditions" that insurance companies often cite in denying coverage.
Subscribe to The Daily Link RSS Feed!
