Tom Carper – Page 5 – Delaware Liberal

Warm Up Your Dialing Fingers

By Unstable Isotope February 18, 201023 Comments

Next week President Obama will convene his bipartisan health care summit. It's expected that sometime in next few days, the Senate bill + reconciliation sidecar will be introduced. The reconciliation…

Thanks, Tom Carper!

By Unstable Isotope January 16, 20107 Comments

The pharmaceutical industry lobbying group PHARMA is threatening to pull its support for the health care reform legislation because of a change in the health care bill. The drug industry…

Carper Fights For His Base

By Unstable Isotope December 12, 200922 Comments

Earlier this year Carper voted with the Republicans to block an amendment to allow Medicaid and Medicare to negotiate drug prices. It caused quite a stir because Carper railed against…

Carper’s Latest Compromise Plan

By Unstable Isotope December 2, 20092 Comments

Harry Reid has a really difficult task, Democrats have decided to lay down all their weapons and craft bills that need 60 votes to even get a vote. Tom Carper…

Carper on Hardball

By cassandra_m November 27, 2009

This is from a show on 11/25 and Chuck Todd interviews him:

Tom Carper Never Lets Go the Rightwing Talking Points

By cassandra_m November 25, 200963 Comments

Call this post reason #578,091 why Senator Tom Carper is not a progressive. As if a proud member of the DLC could be. Senator Carper tells WHYY:

Bulo’s 2009 Top 10 MVPs (Most Valuable to the Progressive Cause)

By El Somnambulo November 23, 200942 Comments

I am El Somnambulo, and I am a listaholic. 2009, IMHO, was a great year for Delaware progressives, maybe the best ever. Both equal rights for same sex couples and…

Tom Carper’s Chief of Staff Now Lobbies for Wellpoint

By cassandra_m November 18, 200920 Comments

You read that right -- the nation's largest insurer has hired Tom Carper's ex-Chief of Staff as a lobbyist to campaign for their interests on the health care bill:

Carper Makes His Crappy Idea Even Crappier

By Unstable Isotope November 11, 20095 Comments

Here's the next idea that Carper is floating (trying to get Snowe or Lieberman onboard I suppose) - triggered state co-ops. In states where private insurers fail to offer affordable…

Senator Carper Tries to Disguise That He is Missing the Point

By cassandra_m November 2, 20094 Comments

Sunday's NJ gave us another one of those missives that seems to be designed to communicate that he is on top of the issues, but, if you look closely, is basically a whole lot of weak handwaving that tries to hide his real work. They key bit here is this: