Howard Dean: I Love This Compromise, Which I Thought Up, Because it Empowers Bureaucracy & Leads to Single-Payer

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  December 10th at 09:30 AM  | 

While others have reported that a bipartisan group of Senators arrived at the current Senate compromise all on their own, Howard Dean says that’s not true. It seems that he’s responsible for the proposal currently being considered in the Senate. Former Governor Howard Dean helped broker a health care compromise that Senate Democratic leaders say could move the bill forward. Dean’s proposal is designed to | Read More »

NRSC (Almost) Catches DSCC in Cash on Hand

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 19th at 09:40 PM  | 

It’s about time: The National Republican Senatorial Committee narrowed its cash disadvantage in August, outraising its Democrat counterparts, which spent nearly $14 million in one month primarily on television airtime in North Carolina, Oregon, Mississippi and Colorado. On Sept. 1, the NRSC had $26.8 million in cash after raising $5.2 million and spending $3.8 million during the previous month, according to numbers released by the | Read More »

Howard Dean’s DNC Negates Obama’s Cash Edge

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 14th at 09:43 PM  | 

Barack Obama released his August fundraising numbers today, and it was an impressive haul: $66 million — the best month ever for a presidential candidate. Interestingly, Obama’s campaign hasn’t addressed why they felt compelled to release this information a week earlier than they had planned. Given the spate of bad news about the direction of the campaign, you have to think it was to stanch | Read More »