But Max Baucus proves me wrong.GOP Senators, Roy Blunt and Peter Kinder are attacking Medicare Advantage “cuts” proposed by Republicans earlier this year.
A White House spokesman says Obama is likely to endorse using about $139 billion in unallocated TARP funds for a new jobs creation program.
The Chase Park Plaza
JEFFERSON CITY — The 23 Republicans who control the 34-member Missouri Senate will gather for a retreat starting Friday morning at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis.
The powers-that-be will meet at the Central West End landmark…
[...]Senate Republicans don't have an alternative health care proposal, but they have a detailed plan to delay, distract, distort, deny and derail the Democratic proposal.
Rep. Russ Carnahan is the new Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight.
Obama delivers his plan at West Point
Local Republicans offered a mix reaction to President Obama’s announcement last night that he will send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, who is retiring next year, was mostly positive, offering…
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Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Robin Carnahan threw her support behind President Obama's Afghanistan strategy Wednesday morning."The" [...]
REPUBLICANS EMBRACE SURGE, CRITICIZE TIMETABLEMCCASKILL: "THOUGHTFUL STRATEGY"SKELTON HAS QUESTIONS*GET MORE KEY QUOTES HERE*A new Washington Post poll shows that the Republican "rank and file" is generally united in its hatred of our unAmerican usurper president, but "also reveals deep dissatisfaction among GOP voters with the party's leadership as well as ideological and generational differences that may prove big obstacles to [...]
Via St. Louis Pushes Back, an incredible (and true) advertisement for Ed Martin's Congressional campaign:
Just another day for mainstream Missouri Republicans...
[...]A new article in The New England Journal of Medicine makes a powerful argument for real change in our health care system to dramatically reduce the number of uninsured. Sadly, the House Republicans' health care plan would actually increase the number uninsured (while doing nothing to stop discrimination because' [...]
The Plum Line's Greg Sargent looks at some of the data from the new Washington Post-ABC News poll about global warming.
They show that only a bare majority of Republicans believe in global warming, and that GOPers are surprisingly out of step with the rest [...]
Lamping
Come 2010, local Republicans are hopeful that they can take back the 24th Senate District, a cushy stretch of St. Louis County that includes Creve Coeur, Clayton and Frontenac.
For the past seven years, the district has been represented by University…
[...]News of Rep. Dennis Moore’s decision to retire next year hit the political community like a thunderclap. It immediately rattled the china inside the Democratic Party.
Suddenly, their political prospects in Kansas next year became even worse.
With Republicans looking very strong in contests for the Senate and governor – [...]
If you've been listening to much of the health care debate in Washington lately, it would be hard to miss complaints from Republicans about how the complicated health care bill happens to be pretty long when it's printed with big type and double spaced.
It's a pathetic' [...]
The Lafeyette County Republicans put up this great editorial earlier - it's worth a read.
The Way We See It: Stouffer Is Skelton's Only Challenge to Re-Election
Molly Teichman
To say Lafayette County has a unique perspective on Missouri’s 4th Congressional District race [...]
NIXON'S WEEK 45 GRADE: BFrom Talking Points Memo:
The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it.
King political prognosticator Charlie Cook has switched his ranking for Missouri's 4th Congressional District race from "a likely Democratic seat" to "a lean Democratic seat" in 2010. The move is minor, and still favors Rep. Ike Skelton. But it's also significant for Republicans who believe [...] Here's a thumbnail comparison of the three approaches to health care reform -- House Democrats (the bill that passed); House Republicans; Senate Democrats.
(Senate Republicans aren't offering a bill.)
Wonks can consult the CBO scores attached below (CBO later updated the score on the House Dems' bill; that [...]
Inmate No. 38699-079
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Associated Press, reporting out of Chicago today, is quoting Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn as predicting that the controversial plan to house suspected terrorists in a mostly empty northern Illinois prison will “probably” happen.
Quinn, like most…
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The Washington Post's Dana Millbank lays into Senate Republicans like Kit Bond this morning.
Ten of the Senate's 40 Republicans, attempting some measure of consistency, parted ways with Sessions and voted with Democrats in a resounding 70 to 29 vote to break the filibuster. But the [...]
