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Republicans Have Big Ones Too — Bills That Is

By nemski November 30, 20092 Comments

Remember the lie about the Health Care legislation was longer than War and Peace? Turns out that out of the top 10 longest bills, half of them have been written…

In Remembrance

By nemski November 22, 200923 Comments

Today in 1963 one of the great presidents of the United States was struck down.

The Mississippi Health Care Stomp

By nemski November 21, 200925 Comments

You hear that sucking sound? Yeah, that's state of Mississippi. Gov. Haley Barbour was on Hardball the other day and commented how he thinks states would do a better job…

Sometimes Size Doesn’t Matter

By nemski November 21, 20092 Comments

Matthew Yglesias has a great look at the size of bills on Capitol HIll and disingenuousness of Republicans who complain about a bill's length. The bill is long in part…

wRong Willams, Clue — Clue, wRong Williams

By nemski November 17, 200911 Comments

Update: The online News Journal dropped the following line from Williams' column: And then, if some quirk of nature would defy all the universe and he would beat Carney, he…

Hypocrisy and The Art of Judge Blocking

By nemski November 16, 200919 Comments

At this point in the last two presidents' first terms, W had 28 lower court justices confirmed and Clinton 27. Guess how many for Obama. Seriously, guess. Come on just…

Joe’s In Charge — Biden Style

By nemski November 15, 2009

Fake Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live. Very funny. h/t Ryan Cormier

After The Deluge

By nemski November 15, 200932 Comments

Tropical Storm Ida has left her mark on Delaware. The question we have is will we learn from Ida's destruction or will we keep on doing the same old, same…

Death Panelling Goes For Cheap

By nemski November 15, 20098 Comments

Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) writes in The New York Times about his intentions and the ramifications of a small piece of legislation he added into the health care package. .…

Where Did You Hear That Before?

By nemski November 15, 20092 Comments

Lobbyists ghostwrote a few, no, several, no, many speeches that uttered during the historic health care debate last week reports The New York Times. Statements by more than a dozen…

War – What Is It Good For?

By nemski November 15, 20093 Comments

Matthew Yglesias takes a look at the cost of war versus the economic benefits on the home front and comes to the standard meme that the financial burden of war…

Biden To Appear on The Daily Show

By nemski November 15, 20092 Comments

Pen this in on your calendar, Vice President Joe Biden will appear on The Daily Show Tuesday night. Last week we had soon-to-be-retired Congressman Mike Castle on Colbert talking about…

Ted Kaufman, Rock Star?

By nemski November 14, 20096 Comments

Things I learned today when reading the New York Times article that featured Senator Ted Kaufman. Kaufman has reached rock-star status among Senate professional staff On a weekly basis, recognizes…