Archive for March, 2010
Banking Reform Legislation Background
So now that we’re done (for the moment) with the HCR, it is on to Banking Reform. This work has been ongoing in the House (who passed a bill already) and Chris Dodd’s Banking Committee. The Congress is in recess now, but it is worth taking some time to get up to speed on the coming issues and the bill itself.
Elizabeth Warren on Consumer Protection
This is from a conference held a few weeks back in NY with the theme of “Make Markets Be Markets”. Elizabeth Warren is always awesome, and this is one good argument for the entire Consumer Protection agency that banks are currently working overtime to eliminate. This is around 10 minutes long and worth every minute. […]
This Would Have Been Nice to Know Alot Sooner Than This
GOP Congressmen:Most Republicans Now Think That The Iraq War Was A Mistake
Anybody see this reported in the traditional media? Anywhere?
So you can mark this down as ONE MORE THING we were right about…
Health Insurance Mandates Nearly as old as Constitution.
I happened onto this little fact by way of Roger Ebert, of “At The Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert” fame, who is now quite the avid and political tweeter recently. And would you believe me if I told you that one of our most important Founding Fathers, President John Adams, signed legislation providing for a health insurance mandate?
Sunday Afternoon Reading
The Party of Cruelty was written by James Howard Kunstler last week after the HCR was almost a week ago, but I just saw it yesterday. It is a long read, but a truly excellent retort to the apocalyptic fear and loathing ramped up by repubs — not just during the process, but also afterwards. Fear and loathing that is now being expressed in physical threats and in property destruction aimed against lawmakers who voted for this. Make sure you go over there to read the entire thing:
Bring It, Spence.
Terry Spence, the disgraced and defeated former GOP Speaker, berates Gibson (unknowingly to her face) about her column exposing the GOP misappropriation of funds during their control of the GA. Like a criminal who is angry at the Police for getting caught. And he thinks he can run for the House again. That would make our day.
Karen Weldin Stewart Decides That Maybe She Does Have a Job To Do
Today’s News Journal updates the status of the investigations into the denials of prescribed tests for heart patients by BCBSD. Aetna is also now part of the doctors’ complaints — Aetna is using the same pre-authorization firm as BCBSD.
The News Journal Admits Delaware Liberal Is Correct
The News Journal has obviously been poking around DL again. They wrote an article about DD’s post on Michelle Rollins “Millionaire Michelle Rollins Takes Bonus From Wilmington Trust TARP Funds.” The News Journal represents this as a partisan attack but also admits that the post is accurate. The numbers being tossed around at DelawareLiberal are […]
He Was For It Before He Was Against It
As you might have read, President Obama has finally pushed through some recess appointments. Republicans are “upset”. John McCain said he was “very disappointed” and: Once again the administration showed that it had little respect for the time honored constitutional roles and procedures of Congress Let’s take the Hot Tub Time Machine back to 2005 […]
Weekend Open Thread
Happy weekend everyone! I hope you’re having a good one. A little birdie told me that liberalgeek is having a birthday today, so everyone wish him a happy birthday. I think he’s turning 29 today. So let’s start this open thread. As expected, President Obama has made some recess appointments: The White House has just […]
Markell Is Now Giving Weekly Addresses.
What, does he think he is, the President of something? All kidding aside, I do think this is a good idea, because it is always a good thing for our government to be informing us of what they are doing in our name. And if we don’t like it, we vote them out, and if we do like it, we keep them. That is how America works, unless of course you are a violent Republican teabagger terrorist, but I digress. Click through for the first address.
Government Checks Are OK For Me, But Not For Thee
The Washington Post interviewed James Vanderboegh, the self-styled “patriot” who called for people to vandalize the offices of Democratic lawmakers. Vanberboegh lives on Social Security disability. This anti-government warrior, this self-styled leader, sponges our tax money? I guess he really deserves that money while other people are just lazy.
The Genie Is Out Of The Bottle
The real problem we are facing today is not that the Tea Party is part of the Republican Party, it’s that the Republican Party has been absorbed by the Tea Party. When the GOP lost the middle all it was left with was its fringe. And like all fringe groups Tea Partiers aren’t willing to […]
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