In Washington: Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, tries to save the Obama presidency with a deal on health care.
New jobless claims came in above expectations. Job losses came in far above expectations. Vice President Joe Biden says the $787 billion stimulus is exceeding expectations.
President Obama’s Green Czar, Van Jones, signed a “9/11 Truther” statement in 2004.
U.S. officials punish Honduras for expelling a president who violated its constitution.
Fifty-one percent of likely voters say Congress is too liberal.
Outside the Beltway: Massachusetts state Rep. Michael Rodrigues, D, a member of the state House Ways and Means Committee, voted for an increase to the state’s sales and alcohol taxes, which went into effect Aug. 1. Rodrigues was subsequently nailed by an alert Massachusetts citizen loading “a couple of cases of booze” into his car at the tax-free liquor store off I-95 in New Hampshire.
