cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Speakout for Good Jobs Now Tour
ProgressiveCongress.org in conjunction with the Congressional Progressive Caucus is sponsoring a Congressional listening tour — the Speak Out Tour — of the US, with the goal of giving Americans a chance to talk about the thing they most care about, jobs:
Biden Joins NY Investigation into Validity of Mortgage Paperwork
Attorney General Beau Biden is joining the investigation started by NY AG Eric Schneiderman in looking at mortgage Trustee Banks Bank of New York Mellon and Deutsche Bank.
Governor Markell on Radio Times
Wish I had known about this earlier — Governor Markell was on with Marty Moss-Coane on Radio Times during the first hour this AM.
Anyone Know There Is *Another* GOP Presidential Debate Tonite?
Well, there is one and go figure — the Clown Show gets to debate itself. Of course, this is one more exercise is just how much batshit crazy these guys will commit to in order to get the approval of the teajadis.
Ungrateful
They got an extraordinary bailout funded and guaranteed by the taxpayers of the United States of America — they still are — and yet Jamie Dimon of Citibank Chase is whining about regulations from Dodd-Frank:
Bob Herbert is Back
…and he’s writing for The Policy Shop, the in-house blog of the DEMOS group. His piece there is called The Jobs Emergency and America in Crisis:
Late Night Video — Hear No Evil
The so-called Libertarian Rand Paul tells Sean Hannity that he is willing to undermine our freedom of assembly in order to round up people who are listening to people talking (just talking) about the overthrow of the US government. So Steven Colbert observes that (according to Paul) apparently we have Freedom of Speech, but not Freedom of Listen:
Committee Hearing for New DelDOT Secretary Tomorrow
This is a heads up — the nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Mr. Shailen P. Bhatt, meets with the Senate Executive Committee to testify on his nomination on June 8, 2011.
Late Night Video — My Water’s On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song)
In the tradition of Schoolhouse Rock, Jay Rosen and his graduate school class (Journalism) at NYU teamed up with Pro-Publica to produce this nicely done musical explainer of hydraulic Fracking for natural gas.
The Most Prominent Politicians from Delaware
Erik Loomis over at Lawyers, Guns and Money is working on a project to identify the most prominent politicians from each state. He is working on this in order of admission to the Union, which means that a survey of Delaware’s politicians is up first in this task.
Monday Open Thread
Monday and we’re all back to work, even the intrepid UI. If my own experience returning to work from vacation is any guide, she’s underwater today, so I’ll post up today’s Open Thread.
Impact of Republican Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid in Delaware
The Democrats on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have done the work to estimate the effects of implementing the Ryan cuts to Medicare and Medicaid on a congressional district basis. They’ve created an interactive map that will show you a report on the estimated impacts for Medicare or Medicaid. Delaware Medicare Changes (pdf): […]
John Carney Wants to Know How You’d Manage the Federal Budget
He is holding 3 meetings on Wednesday, June 8 in conjunction with the Concord Coalition, which is billed as a non-partisan policy organization. Here is the invite from Representative Carney that came in my email:
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