Archive for November, 2011

Memeorandum

• Hillary Clinton: GOP Is 'Death Party' If Health Care Bill Passes (CBS Philly)
  CBS Philly: Hillary Clinton: GOP Is ‘Death Party’ If Health Care Bill Passes  —  PHILADELPHIA (CNN)-Hillary Clinton has a new name for the Republican Party if Congress manages to pass the Senate health care bill: “death party.”  —  The Democratic presidential nominee's Twitter account shared …
• Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates (Juliet Eilperin/Washington Post)
  Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post: Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates  —  A small group of moderate Republican senators, worried that their leaders' health-care bill could damage the nation's social safety net, may pose at least as significant an obstacle to the measure's passage as their colleagues on the righ […]
• Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes (Jordan Rau/New York Times)
  Jordan Rau / New York Times: Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes  —  ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses.  She has raised four children and buried two husbands.  —  But years in an assisted living center drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care …
• The Untold Story of How Gary Cohn Fell for Donald Trump (William D. Cohan/Vanity Fair)
  William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair: The Untold Story of How Gary Cohn Fell for Donald Trump  —  As Goldman Sachs's long-suffering No 2., Cohn approached his board about his future.  He didn't get the answer he wanted.  And then Jared Kushner swooped in.  This is how Goldman Sachs took over the White House.
• Islamic State Poster Shows Car Crushing Skulls: 'Run Over Them Without Mercy' (John Hayward/Breitbart)
  John Hayward / Breitbart: Islamic State Poster Shows Car Crushing Skulls: ‘Run Over Them Without Mercy’  —  A pro-Islamic State media operation called the Nashir News Agency published a poster calling for more vehicular jihad in the last few days of the Ramadan holiday season, depicting an SUV driving across a mountain …
• 100-year-old crime boss beats the odds, is released from prison (Michael Hechtman/New York Post)
  Michael Hechtman / New York Post: 100-year-old crime boss beats the odds, is released from prison  —  John “Sonny” Franzese in 1966 (left) and 2010 (right). … Geriatric gangster John “Sonny” Franzese — the oldest guest of the federal prison system — is a free man at the age of 100.  —  The Colombo family underboss …
• Evidence is mounting that Russia took 4 clear paths to meddle in the US election (Business Insider)
  Business Insider: Evidence is mounting that Russia took 4 clear paths to meddle in the US election  —  It was September 2015 when the FBI first noticed that Russian hackers had infiltrated a computer system belonging to the Democratic National Committee.  —  It was the first sign that Moscow was attempting to meddle in the presidential election.
• What It Was Like to Star in the Trump-Themed Julius Caesar (Corey Stoll/Vulture)
  Corey Stoll / Vulture: What It Was Like to Star in the Trump-Themed Julius Caesar  —  “Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily. Let not our looks put on our purposes, but bear it as our Roman actors do,  —  with untir'd spirits and formal constancy.  On the night of Sunday, June 18, I spoke those words as Brutus …
• Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team (Kevin Robillard/Politico)
  Kevin Robillard / Politico: Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team  —  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The leadership of the Koch brothers' network is brushing off its occasionally chilly attitude toward President Donald Trump, trying to nudge the administration in its direction …
• Schumer: 'Unseemly' to confirm Gorsuch amid FBI probe of Trump campaign (Mark Berman/Washington Post)
  Mark Berman / Washington Post: Schumer: ‘Unseemly’ to confirm Gorsuch amid FBI probe of Trump campaign  —  While Judge Neil Gorsuch answered questions during his confirmation hearings, the Senate's top Democrat on Tuesday questioned whether he should be confirmed at all amid an FBI investigation into President Trump's campaign.