Posts in January 2010

President Obama has had a rough few weeks. His proposed health care overhaul is in trouble and voters are saying he’s not doing enough to improve the economy, according to a new poll conducted by Republican researcher Glen Bolger and Democrat Stan Greenberg. The one... [+]

There’s a lot we still don’t know about the four men implicated in the alleged attempt to bug Sen. Mary Landrieu’s phones yesterday, but a little-known organization called the Pelican Institute appears to be key to the story. Located at 400 Poydras St. in downtown... [+]

Two of the most powerful union officials in the country lashed out at Senate Democrats on Tuesday, jokingly calling some of them legislative “terrorists” and slamming leadership for “squandering” a supermajority in the Senate. Pointing to the failure of Congress to pass health care reform... [+]

from Paul Krugman: A spending freeze? That’s the brilliant response of the Obama team to their first serious political setback? It’s appalling on every level. It’s bad economics, depressing demand when the economy is still suffering from mass unemployment. Jonathan Zasloff writes that Obama seems... [+]

President Obama plans to announce a three-year freeze on discretionary, “non-security” spending in the lead-up to Wednesday’s State of the Union address, Hill Democratic sources familiar with the plan tell POLITICO. The move, intended to blunt the populist backlash against Obama’s $787 billion stimulus and... [+]