Day: February 11, 2010

One of the benefits of being snowed in this week is that I've had a chance to catch up on some blog reading, and discovered that I had missed this really good video about missing the one year anniversary of the commitment to close Gitmo.

Kavips lauds Scott Spencer's accomplishments and ideas, but is concerned that there is a better place for him in the party, politics, and in government than likely losing to John Carney. While Kavips is well intentioned, it is the losing to Carney that will air Scott's good ideas to the public, and his future in politics can wait until after the primary.

Reid found some courage today in scrapping a jobs bill that had nothing but giveaways to the GOP in it. Now he needs to use that new found courage to pass a real jobs bill through reconciliation without any GOP support. Do it, Harry. Do it now.

Via TPM: We have very little information so far. But President Clinton was hospitalized at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital this afternoon. It's not clear whether it was on an emergency basis…

Sussex shows a budget surplus, but asks for volunteers to plow the roads without compensation. I think we just saw a form of socialism play out in the heart of Sussex County.

Congress is broken, brought down not only by lobbyist and corporate influence but also by the obstruction of the Party of No. The supreme irony of our times is that only George W. Bush seems to be the savior, in that perhaps his abuse of power during his terms in office are the only way to fix Washington.

The GOP now hates transparency, Joe Biden stays classy too, Colbert and Stewart once again mock the right, yet another Republican Congressman announces his retirement, and Tom Perriello's prospects in Virginia.