Sam Stein

Feinstein: If We Don't Deliver On Health Care 'We've Got A Problem'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics


Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) warned her fellow Democrats on Sunday that if they failed to pass health care reform in the weeks ahead, the opportun...

Sam Stein

Dick Durbin Won't Commit To Support Budget For Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics


One of President Barack Obama's closest allies in the Senate would not commit on Sunday to voting in favor of the proposed surge of U.S. forces in Afg...

Jason Linkins

TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.06.2009 | Media


Good morning and welcome to your liveblog of the Sunday Morning Mouth Excretions! My name is Jason, and I hope you all are enjoying this holiday seas...

Shahien Nasiripour

Bank of America TARP Repayment Premature, Analyst Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business


A leading bank analyst says the regulators who allowed Bank of America to repay its $45 billion in government bailout funds made a big mistake because...

Jason Linkins

Washington Post Forced To Correct Report That Public Enemy Called 9/11 A Joke

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media


ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper offers up, via Twitter, a Washington Post correction that addresses what Tapper terms an example of "un...

Jason Linkins

BCS Flack Fleischer Compares Hated Football System To Macy's Parade

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media


I have to tell you, when I heard that former Bush flack Ari Fleischer had been engaged as the new face of shillery for the college football Bowl Champ...

Sam Stein

Palin Gets Another Ethics Complaint (Read Her Staff's Emails)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics


Yet another ethics complaint has been filed against former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, this time on the grounds that both she and her staff used offi...

Arthur Delaney

House Travel Spending Is All Over The Map

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics


The amount of money that members of the House of Representatives spend on all manner of office necessities -- especially travel -- vary widely. Repr...

Jason Linkins

Glenn Beck's "Christmas Sweater" Fails To Catch Fire In Major Liberal Enclaves... Surprise!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media


Raw Story and ThinkProgress both relate news today that strikes me as just a little obvious. But, OK: Fox News infotainer Glenn Beck premiered his new...

Sam Stein

Durbin: The Trigger Proposal Has Not Been Abandoned

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics


The man tasked with counting the votes for Democrats in the Senate told reporters on Friday that the caucus was still considering health care reform t...

Jason Linkins

John Oliver Confronts Swiss UN Ambassador On Neutrality During World War II (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Comedy


On last night's "Daily Show", correspondent John Oliver followed up a segment on a recent vote in Switzerland to ban the building of minarets with an ...

Jason Linkins

Russell Wiseman, Tennessee Mayor, Assails 'Muslim President' For Pre-Empting 'Peanuts'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics


In case you didn't know, President Barack Obama's West Point address, in which he announced his intention to escalate the war in Afghanistan, pre-empt...

Sam Stein

Aetna Forcing 600,000-Plus To Lose Coverage In Effort To Raise Profits

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business


Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage next year as it seeks to raise additional revenue to me...

Sam Stein

Friends And Colleagues Defend Desiree Rogers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics


White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers came under attack after a Virginia couple crashed President Obama's first state dinner, but her friends a...

Arthur Delaney

Greenpeace Asks For Senate Investigation Into Newsweek's Big Oil Forum

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green


On Tuesday, Newsweek hosted a climate and energy policy forum on Capitol Hill with the American Petroleum Institute. Now Greenpeace, which has been he...

Jason Linkins

Tea Party Movie Premieres With Congressional GOP In Attendance (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics


Tea Party activists got to play the part of the glitterati Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, DC, where FreedomWorks debuted...

Sam Stein

Biden's White House Role Changes With Afghan Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics


On the most fundamental matter at stake in the recent debate over the war in Afghanistan, Vice President Joseph Biden ultimately lost. Weeks before P...

Jason Linkins

Senator Bob Corker Praises Police, OnStar For Their Work After Carjacking [AUDIO]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media


Last night, Julia Corker, the eldest daughter of Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) was carjacked by a pair of suspects in Washington, DC's Penn Quarter nei...

Arthur Delaney

Former Employers More Likely To Allege Misconduct By Laid-Off Workers Than In Past Recessions

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business


Laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits today are almost twice as likely as their counterparts during the recession of the 1980s to be accused ...

Jason Linkins

HuffPost, TPM In White House Pool: Newspaper Reporters Gripe

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media


According to Politico, a "debate" has been "sparked" over the new White House pool rotation. This debate is raging, I'm sure, among the handful of people who are deeply invested in White House pool reporting.

Sam Stein

Gregg Defends His Obstructionist Manifesto

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics


Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) took to the floor of the Senate on Thursday morning to defend the health care reform obstructionist manifesto he penned a day...

Sam Stein

Karzai Will Talk To Taliban, Obama Will Not

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics


Afghan President Hamad Karzai announced on Thursday that he would be willing to talk to the leadership of the Taliban -- the main force behind the ins...

Shahien Nasiripour

No Easy Jumpstart To Get Small Business Hiring Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business


As 130 business, labor and thought leaders converge on the White House today to discuss ways to create more jobs, the nation's main engine for job cre...

Sam Stein

Grassley: 'I Don't Think' Coburn's Right To Say Seniors Will 'Die Sooner'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics


There is, at long last, some disagreement within the GOP over whether Democratic-authored health care reform will expedite the death of senior citizen...

Sam Stein

McCain Returns To Robocalls To Target Health Care, Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics


Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), who relied heavily on automated calls to attack Barack Obama during the presidential campaign, is deploying the same to...