-By Warner Todd Huston Is Obama “Nixonifying” the White House? Many think he is… During the campaign, Obama promised transparency on healthcare as he is wont to do. So far, all the Democrats have done, however, is meet behind closed doors. That’s bad enough but as the days pass we are discovering that the White House has assembled its own Nixonian enemies list. Apparently, this is a video that the GOP leadership played for Senate Republicans during a recent policy luncheon to help them in

Two posts from Memeorandum that deal with the UNCONSTITUTIONAL Obamacare Bill or the Baucus Bill, whatever toots your flute. The first one is Brian Butler' TPMDC: Over White House Skepticism, Reid Likely To Go The Opt Out Route The second one is Glenn Thrush at the Politico: Reid announces opt-out public option We have already discussed this ReiCo Putrid Option garbage but... See this post: Senate on Verge of Health Bill We ended that post with Obama not having aclue and now

Politico: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue says a campaign by the White House and its allies to undermine his $200-million-a-year association has largely failed — and actually has helped raise even more money for its pro-business efforts. In a 75-minute interview with POLITICO, Donohue dismissed recent defections by Apple and at least four other companies, which quit over the Chamber’s opposition to Democratic climate change legislation — as essentially meaningless. “Members c

The statement just out from the White House hails Harry Reid for including the public option in the final bill — but more to the point, specifically praises the opt-out idea, contradicting the widely-assumed notion that Obama prefered the trigger: “The President congratulates Senator Reid and Chairmen Baucus and Dodd for their hard work on health insurance reform. Thanks to their efforts, we’re closer than we’ve ever been to solving this decades-old problem. And while much work remains, the P

This would be interesting if it wasn’t a word salad. Rumors? um… It’s no rumor that Pres. Obama hasn’t been leading on health care . But evidently the headline at Huffington Post and the reports circulating inspired the Obama White House to push back on what is unfolding, evidently not understanding that if they’d actually taken a leadership role from the start, like Obama saying where his veto pen would land and where it wouldn’t, which would have still kept him from writing the bil