Winners and losers from the health care summit  —  After spending our day watching the high-stakes or, at the very least, high-profile health care summit at Blair House, we came up with a list of our winners and losers from the proceedings.  —  Those who we think soared and bored are below.

Did the Congressional Budget Office find that premiums costs will go down?  —  Lamar Alexander and Barack Obama just had a contentious exchange on this point, so it's worth settling the issue: Yes, the CBO found health-care reform would reduce premiums.  The issue gets confused because it also found …

Marco Rubio charged personal bills on GOP card  —  Senate candidate Marco Rubio said he reimbursed the state GOP for expenses put on an American Express card given to him by his party.  —  BREINHARD@MIAMIHERALD.COM  —  U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio charged grocery bills …

Frank Gaffney Posits That Missile Defense Logo Is Evidence of Obama's ‘Submission To Shariah’  —  Frank Gaffney, a protégé of Richard Perle and an influential figure in right wing national security circles, has firmly entered the world of right wing tin-foil hat paranoia.

While You Are Distracted by the Summit, Obama Democrats Are Targeting the CIA — By: Andy McCarthy  —  The Obama Democrats have outdone themselves.  —  While the country and the Congress have their eyes on today's dog-and-pony show on socialized medicine, House Democrats last night stashed …

What to Expect in November  —  An Update on the House of Representatives  —  Just about everyone agrees that Republicans will be gaining a sizeable number of U.S. House seats come November, but this far in advance, few agree on the exact number.  We've seen a couple of dozen predictions so far …

Al-Arian roils Calif. Senate race  —  A bespectacled former college professor who has pleaded guilty to aiding the group Palestinian Islamic Jihad helped tip the balance in a 2004 Senate contest in Florida.  Now, six years later, Sami Al-Arian could be on the verge of doing it again, this time in California.

Highlights of Obama's health care summit  —  President Obama's bipartisan health care summit follows months of heated debate in which substance has often been drowned out by partisan rancor.  CNN.com has full coverage of the talks.  —  (CNN) — 5:21 p.m.: Summit adjourns

Rangel: I've been ‘admonished’ by ethics committee  —  The House Ethics Committee has found Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel violated ethics rules by accepting corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean, according to House sources.  —  Rangel told POLITICO Thursday night that he was being …

Michael Steele says Obama should have held a summit a year ago.  Then it's pointed out to him that in fact he did.  —  Michael Steele went on MSNBC this morning before the health-care summit and began attacking President Obama for a “dog and pony show” — and claimed that the president …

Photo Emerges Of Murderous Killer Whale At Tea Party Rally  —  Some quick investigate reporting by the folks at Daily Kos and Democratic Underground has unearthed a photo of Tilikum, the killer whale who yesterday killed a trainer at Sea World, at a Tea Party event in Omaha, Nebraska.

Obama May Prohibit Home-Loan Foreclosures Without HAMP Review  —  Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration may expand efforts to ease the housing crisis by banning all foreclosures on home loans unless they have been screened and rejected by the government's Home Affordable Modification Program.

CORRECTED Graph for “Conflicted Conservatives”  —  In comments on my first post, Marty Gilens alerts me to errors in the 2008 ANES data file that involve the spending variables that I used (noted here on their webpage).  It is my fault for not having seen this.

Bush and Cheney Reunite, First Since Leaving Office  —  ABC News' Kim Randolph reports:  —  Former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney today met face to face for the first time since leaving office over a year ago - and just three days after Cheney was hospitalized for a fifth heart attack.

CPAC Shills for Islamic Terrorists  —  Posted by Frontpagemag.com on Feb 25th, 2010 and filed under FrontPage.  You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.  You can leave a response or trackback to this entry  —  Frontpage Interview's guest today is Pamela Geller …

Paterson, Still in Race, Will Mull His Future  —  Gov. David A. Paterson said late Thursday that he would continue with his election bid, despite calls for him to suspend or end his campaign in the wake of reports that he and the State Police intervened in a domestic-assault case against a senior aide.

Americans Running Out of Patience on Health Care, Polls Show  —  Posted by Jennifer De Pinto 4 comments - Share - - - Share - E-mail - Print - Font A recent CBS News/New York Times Poll, conducted February 5-10, finds that Americans may be running out of patience when it comes …

Obama campaign arm focuses on talk radio  —  The Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America has quietly launched an initiative aimed at making Obama supporters' voices heard on the largely conservative airwaves.  —  “The fate of health reform has been a focus of debate in living rooms …

Breaking: Prominent Congressional Dem Defends Obama On National Security  —  As you know, it's been a regular refrain on this blog that Congressional Dems have completely abandoned the White House on national security issues, effectively letting Republican attacks on Obama's policies drive the debate in Congress.