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Friday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope March 26, 201019 Comments

Welcome to Friday of what has been both a weird and wonderful week. I hope you have awesome weekend plans! What's on your mind? Let's get this open thread spinning.…

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.

Student Loan Reform

By Unstable Isotope March 26, 201025 Comments

Somewhat overshadowed by all the attention on the health care reform bill was the student loan overhaul that was added into the reconciliation package: Ending one of the fiercest lobbying…

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…

Where Are My Smelling Salts?

By Unstable Isotope March 25, 201011 Comments

Where did I put my fainting couch? I can't find any pearls to clutch! The News Journal weighs in on the Biden hot mic moment: When you call a press…

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]