Archive for July, 2009

Eagles Training Camp Signals Beginning of Another Disappointing Football Season

Filed in National by jason330 on July 28, 2009 • 12 Comments

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) – Eagles begin training camp at Lehigh University this week with the same coach and same quarterback who have sucked just enough to seem good enough to not fire for the past..what? eight years…seems like twenty. Update: Jim Johnson, Eagles defensive mastermind, dead.

How Did I Not Catch the French Fried Earmark?

Filed in National by jason330 on July 28, 2009 • 18 Comments

Laurel Democratic Sen. Robert L. Venables — a neighbor of one of the company’s co-owners — inserted the $50,000 into the General Assembly’s annual bond bill to help Fry Manufacturing LLC produce its demonstration model.

Everybody is a Libertarian All of a Sudden

Filed in National by jason330 on July 28, 2009 • 35 Comments

What a bunch of Johnny Come Latelys […]

Who’s Your Daddy?

Filed in National by nemski on July 28, 2009 • 12 Comments

Housing prices climb for the first time in nearly three years.

Voinovich On The GOP

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on July 28, 2009 • 4 Comments

Retiring Ohio Senator George Voinovich diagnoses the GOP’s problem.

Sotomayor Passes Senate Judiciary Committee

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on July 28, 2009 • 1 Comment

This just in: As expected, the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted mostly along party lines to give a favorable recommendation to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. Her name will now be sent to the full Senate, where she will be confirmed next week. The vote was 13 […]

New CBO Report: Public Option Will NOT Drive Private Insurers Out Of Business

Filed in National by pandora on July 28, 2009 • 29 Comments

Oh well, there goes another talking point. The report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the public option proposed by Democrats would not drive private insurers out of business and most people would still choose to get their medical coverage through employers. The CBO Report also calls into question the Lewin Group’s analysis: The […]

Drug Companies Get Subsidized For Bombarding Us With Ads

Filed in National by pandora on July 28, 2009 • 39 Comments

I really hate all the pharma ads on TV. Now I have an even better reason to abhor them. (h/t Digby) Meanwhile, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, has introduced a bill called the Say No to Drug Ads Act. It would amend the federal tax code to prevent pharmaceutical companies from deducting the […]

CRI An Honest Broker?-Part 2

Filed in Delaware by El Somnambulo on July 28, 2009 • 54 Comments

Please allow El Somnambulo to apologize to the (presumably) fine folks at the Caesar Rodney Institute. Yesterday’s article was, by necessity, incomplete. He feels confident that, upon further examination, the Institute will be revealed as a great place where good folks do great things in a non-partisan manner for the citizens of Delaware. In typically […]

Republicans Are (Not, Well Maybe) The Party Of Crazy Eileen

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on July 28, 2009 • 14 Comments

Republicans, we warned you this would happen if you didn’t act to quell the birthers. Now you’re hostages to the birther movement. Is this the image you want to project? Mike Stark from the Huffington Post went to Capitol Hill to ask Republicans if they believe Obama is an natural-born citizen. Watch the Republicans try […]

Does Carper Duck The Question? Let’s go to the tape.

Filed in National by jason330 on July 28, 2009 • 9 Comments

Here are the questions. View the tape an let me know in the comments section if Carper’s responses pass the smell test. MSNBC GUY: Why shouldn’t people believe that your (health care reform vote) has been influenced by the money you’ve gotten from Insurance companies? MSNBC Guy: But Senator you are under a lot of […]