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Why Yes, I Do Intend To Document Every Incident

By pandora March 26, 201057 Comments

Here's the latest: (Via Think Progress) After picking up his 10-year old daughter from school yesterday afternoon, Nashville resident Mark Duren was driving home when he was suddenly and intentionally…

Insurance Commissioner is Failing Aggrieved Patients

By cassandra_m March 26, 201021 Comments

That title is stolen from the News Journal Opinion page today, whose writers I have to give some credit to today. They highlight an odd bit of business, where Senator John D. Rockefeller, D-W.V has written to Delaware Blue Cross to ask them to provide detailed documentation of why they would deny cardiac testing prescribed by doctors to patients exhibiting symptoms of heart failure.

Modified Reconciliation Fix Passes

By Unstable Isotope March 25, 20102 Comments

The modified reconciliation fix has passed the House for the second time, 220-207. This means that the agreed-upon fixes agreed to by both the House and the Senate are now…

Republicans Decide They’re The True Victims, And We’d Better Believe Them… Or Else!

By pandora March 25, 201026 Comments

Everyone else is simply "collateral damage" who need to understand how upset and angry they are, and how Dems brought all this on themselves. Via Roll Call: Tea party protesters…

Thursday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope March 25, 201019 Comments

Welcome to Thursday. So far my day is going better than yesterday and catching up on sleep really helped with that. So, tell us, what's on your mind? Open thread!…

The GOP Is Now Officially Guilty of Petulance

By Scott P March 25, 201024 Comments

I think it was noted here somewhere the other day that on Tuesday, Senate Republicans used a little-known rule to prevent hearings from proceeding past 2:00 PM. In fact, our…

Legislative Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show-Thurs., March 25, 2010

By El Somnambulo March 25, 20101 Comment

Let's start with yesterday's Session (In)Activity Report. The General Assembly could have, and I think, should have, saved the State some money by, at most, holding one week of session…

Mike Castle: Pro-Repeal?

By Unstable Isotope March 25, 201013 Comments

Mike Castle held a fundraiser with pro-repeal Republican Senator Orrin Hatch. The Republican discipline on health care reform is starting to disappear though. Some Republicans like Mitt Romeny (who is…

Reconciliation – 2 More Votes To Go

By Unstable Isotope March 25, 201020 Comments

The Senate finished its "vote-a-rama" early this morning (votes on all the B.S. amendments Republicans made to the reform reconciliation package). The Senate parliamentarian ruled for the Republicans on 2…

No You Can’t (Featuring John Boehner)

By cassandra_m March 24, 20108 Comments

I saw this probably a half a million times today between my email and Twitter -- it is really worth it, though: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpOUctySD68[/youtube]

Burris Breaks From the Violence.

By Delaware Dem March 24, 2010116 Comments

Dave Burris: "This behavior by Congressional Republicans (childish) and certain Tea Party elements (criminally dangerous) will cost the GOP in 2010." I am going to say something that I never thought I would say: I agree with Dave Burris.

Postal Service Looking for Five Day Week

By Scott P March 24, 20109 Comments

This idea has been kicked around for several years now, but the US Postal Service is now taking the first formal steps toward five-day delivery: The postal governing board agreed…

Wednesday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope March 24, 201041 Comments

Well, I've had an interesting morning so far. The police knocked on my door at 2 AM to inform us that me and my husband's cars had been vandalized with…