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Sam Stein reports an interesting development. After 9 Democratic senators banded together for a public option push , Diane Feinstein has become the 10th : Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) became the 10th Senator to sign on to a new effort by Democrats to press Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to pass a public option for insurance coverage using reconciliation, her office confirmed to the Huffington Post on Wednesday. The California Democrat joins a list of mostly progressive members to offer her late-stage support for the government run plan. In a letter to Reid on Tuesday a quartet of Democrats penned urged Reid to pass the proposal through parliamentary procedures that allow a simple up-or-down vote. And Stein notes, Feinstein hasn't been out in public urging that we get a public option before. This is a startling surprise of pleasant indeed: In putting her name among the signatories Feinstein expands the pool of senators pushing for a public plan beyond the progressiv...

Sam Stein reports today that the White House is very frustrated with how Dawn Johnsen and other executive/judical nominees have not been confirmed yet despite nominating them a LONG LONG time ago. This has lead to an eminent renomination of those hopeful appointees "We have put a number of people into government in the first year," Gibbs said, in a response to a question by the Huffington Post. "But at the same time we have seen a pacing in dealing with nominations, both for the executive branch and judicial nominations that, I think, by almost any estimation would be deemed slow." As Gibbs briefed reporters, sources said that the White House will push to re-nominate seven of those judicial and political appointees who have been held up in the Senate, including Dawn Johnsen, the controversial nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel. Two sources with knowledge of the situation told HuffPost that they expected the re-nominations to be announced soon. But administ...

Hispanic Republican strategists Alex Castellanos, Leslie Sanchez, and Danny Diaz are nowhere to found this week after the historic nomination of Sonia Sotomayor A "Reel Feel" from what I thought yesterday. And it has been crossposted at the Kos , recommended at TPMCafe , and also written at Docudharma . They spent their years content to keep key constituents dumb. It is their nightmare right now because of that. They spent their years lying their gums off just so they could easily become part of the corrupt elite. It is their nightmare right now because of that. It continues: Last night, I thought about this : Hispanic GOP members are having one hell filled week with how some in their party haven't said nice things about their race. And look what Mr. Sargent reports today in his Weekend Open Thread : Sam Stein reports that Hispanic GOP strategists are stunned and outraged by the conservative attacks on Sotomayor And a key point to note: But you can just tell that some o...