Posts by Aaron Wiener

What drives Obama’s approval ratings? It’s the economy, stupid.
Reid makes concessions to Landrieu and Nelson to win their support for Saturday’s health reform procedural vote.
These Senate centrists, in turn, make no secret of their jockeying for leverage.
Saturday’s vote could foreshadow the prospects for health reform’s eventual passage.
Latino leaders blame Rahm for anti-immigrant provisions in health [...]

TPM compiles the many untruths in “Going Rogue.”
Palin has some trouble keeping her Middle East nations straight.
More Americans consider the Fort Hood massacre “murder” than “terrorism.”
Palin, of course, disagrees, and she’ll pay a visit next month.
Three-quarters of Americans like Obama as a person, but fewer than half like his policies.
What’s Doug Hoffman thinking by challenging [...]

Palin argues for expanded West Bank settlements because Jews “will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead.”
She also thinks we should “profile” Muslims to save “innocent American lives.”
Nate Silver lays out 10 reasons why she might win the 2012 GOP nomination.
Is terrorism making a comeback as a political issue?
A record-low [...]

We’ve added some new information to TWI’s ever-evolving Senate Public Option Scoreboard. In addition to every senator’s stance on the public option, the Scoreboard now displays the percentage of people in each senator’s home state who lack health insurance, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data. We’ve also included state-by-state polling data on [...]

Faced with the reality that reaching a global, binding climate treaty at Copenhagen next month may be next to impossible, world leaders announced yesterday that they were scaling back their ambitions for Copenhagen and putting off a comprehensive treaty until at least next year. The reaction so far? Cheers from across the political spectrum.
Marc Morano, [...]

A McCain adviser denies that Palin did the Couric interview out of pity.
Also out of pity? A preview of Palin’s interview with Oprah.
And another “Going Rogue” fib: Palin claims she was billed for her vetting; McCain officials deny it.
David Brooks pitches John Thune as a 2012 presidential candidate.
A judge orders a U.S. Attorney to collect [...]

A “beef with McChrystal” may have led Eikenberry to leak his own cables.
Are Vitter’s ties to the formaldehyde industry behind his block of an Obama EPA nominee?
A defiantly smug Sean Hannity apologizes to Jon Stewart.
Obama visits Alaska today, briefly, for the first time.
The Obama presidency is more LBJ than JFK, and it’s taking its toll [...]

Anyone who pooh-poohed Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) politically courageous decision to work with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to help craft bipartisan climate legislation might reconsider his position after this news out of South Carolina:
The Charleston County Republican Party’s executive committee took the unusual step Monday night of censuring U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for stepping across [...]

A battle heats up between Rahm and Brookings.
And Bill Clinton appears to side with Rahm.
How to interpret the mercurial public mood on Afghanistan?
Franks says DADT will be in next year’s Defense authorization bill.
Most Americans are worried about a backlash against Muslims in the military after Fort Hood.
Dyslexics, take heart: Gordon Brown emerges unscathed from his [...]

Lest you should think that Sen. Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) “no” vote on the Environment and Public Works Committee’s climate bill signaled his opposition to comprehensive climate legislation in general, look no further than his opening statement this morning at the first hearing on the legislation in the Finance Committee, which he chairs:
[...] I am committed [...]