Archive for July, 2009
Dan Froomkin Hired By Huffington Post
The Washington Post’s self-inflicted loss is the Huffington Post’s gain. Glenn Greenwald at Salon is reporting that Dan Froomkin has been hired by the Huffington Post. Seeing as how his sources include Dan Froomkin and Arianna Huffington, Glenn has nailed the story. As always, his take is at least as interesting as the facts: In […]
Tell Tom Carper to Support the Public Option
We all know that Senator Carper has corporate health care lobbyists in his ear and corporate money filling his campaign coffers. But don’t any of you DARE give up this fight – every quitter provides an excuse for mass surrender. You’ve got to work for this – if we don’t fight like hell with our […]
Rally for Health Care Action — Comment Rescue
This notice is courtesy of PBaumbach in the Carper thread: If you would like to vent at Carper (or at least his office), there is a rally on Thursday organized by Tom and Alice Davis: http://pol.moveon.org/event/healthcareaction/94316 *Here are the details: Robust Rally for Robust Public Option Sen. Thomas Carper’s District Office 1 Christina Center, 301 […]
The Department of Law Will Save Her — More Palin Follies
So the Quitta from Wasilla is all over the news this AM and finds herself answering a question from an ABC interviewer wanting to know why she would step down because of so-called ethics investigations knowing that this doesn’t let up in higher office…..the reply? But as for whether another pursuit of national office, as […]
Deep thought
People that don’t have kids shouldn’t pay a school tax. It’s not fair to make them pay.
Open Thread
In other news… The 4th of July Tea Parties were a bust. Senator Cornyn and Governor Perry get booed at the Austin Tea Party. Al Franken will be sworn in today at 12:15 PM. Biden will do the honors. Wingnut head-asplodery will commence. Some guy’s funeral is today. Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara died, at […]
Tuesday Morning Quick Hits
Longtime Delaware civil rights activist Littleton Mitchell, 90, has died in a car accident. Mitchell was a Tuskeegee Airmen and served for 30 years as president of the state’s NAACP chapter. Governor Markell signed SB 84 yesterday, giving de facto parents official recognition for the purposes of custody and parental rights. I rushed out to […]
More Like This Please! — David Shuster Asks Sen Carper Tough Questions
….on the health insurance bills in Congress. He specifically tossed the amount of money Carper has taken from the various health care and pharm industries at Senator Carper to ask him how it effects his vote. All told, Carper answered very little of Shuster’s questions. Take a look: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEPMP0e0Hss[/youtube] h/t Bob Cesca
Federal Eye Highlights Sen. Kaufman
I was interviewed today by Ed O’Keefe of the Washington Post’s Federal Eye column for a story on our junior Senator, Ted Kaufman. Kaufman caught the Federal eye by his highlighting of your average federal workers during his allotted time for floor speeches in the Senate, putting a face to the caricature conservatives love to […]
Quote of the Day
Representative Thomas Perriello (D-VA) said after the cap and trade bill passed: There’s got to be something more important than getting reelected. If I lose my seat, and that’s the worst that happens, I could live with that. [snip] This is a gift. For the first time in a generation, we have the chance to […]
Bringing Teh Stoopid
She wants to give our children the same lifestyle we had — not a better one. Oh wait, that’s not it, she said the Earth was 6,000 years old. Facepalm. h/t Bad Astronomy
Why Don’t We Talk About The Real Victims – Fallen Politicians?
Last week’s News Journal brings us this wacky letter to the editor: I enjoyed your June 26 editorial pointing out politically prominent men involved in adulterous relationships. There are many more, each representing hundreds of column inches of newsprint taking the same approach: “ain’t it awful” – “poor wronged wife” – “ruined career.” Other aspects […]
Breaking: Pfeiffer Retires as Finance Secretary, Guv Proposes Eliminating Department
Governor Markell has just announced a proposal to eliminate the Department of Finance, and to distribute the Department’s responsibilities among other State agencies. Secretary of Finance Gary Pfeiffer, who recommended that the Department be eliminated, is retiring and will be replaced as Acting Secretary by Tom Cook. Here is the press release in its entirety: […]
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