Breaking: Chas Freeman withdraws name from NIC appointment
The Hill reports on the good news:
The latest on the “Employee Free Choice Act”
If you oppose the pro-union “Employee Free Choice Act” – and you should – there’s good news from the Senate: The WSJ reports that some Senate Democrats are “wavering” in their support for a bill that would, among other things, eliminate secret ballots and give even more power to the labor unions:
Tuesday Open Thread
Back later, ya’ll.
Obama: Our “hero”!
Golly gee – after seeing how an image of President Obama on the WH’s website was named, in part, “hero” for his “heroic” efforts on lifting the Bush-era limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, after reading his tribute to the late actor Christopher Reeve – who John Edwards once famously assured voters would “walk again” if he and John Kerry were elected in 2004, and after reading the mainstream media’s gushing praise for The One on his “rebuke” of President Bush, gosh darn it I just feel warm and fuzzy all over!
24 – 8pm til 9pm open thread
The nailbiting starts in 10 minutes …
NYT confirms that the attacks on Rush were “explicitly authorized” by the WH
– specifically senior advisor David Axelrod, the “Karl Rove” of the Obama administration. Money quote: