What does it cost to get $2.4 billion in unemployment benefits extension?
President Obama is scheduled today to put his signature to HR 3548, the unemployment extension bill that’s been struggling to make its way out of Congress for over a month. Thousands of unemployed Americans will applaud this [...]
Beautiful day here, and despite being pessimistic this morning, I’m in a great mood. Good day for cleaning, football, some video games, and soup. A few quick notes:
1.) My email finally overwhelmed me. I had several thousand messages in my account, many of which are unanswered, in no small part [...]
This will never work:
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a new “social contract” with the world’s banks to make them more responsible to society.
Mr Brown told a G20 meeting in Scotland it was not acceptable that banking success was reaped by the few but failure was “borne [...]
At the West Virginia Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on Oct. 31, several leaders were honored as Outstanding Democrats of the Year.
County Outstanding Democrats of the Year included: Cabell, Deborah Chapman; Lincoln, Buster Stowers; (posthumously); Logan, Art Kirkendoll; Mason, Randell G. Mayes; Mingo, Ernest "Big Ern" Williams; Putnam, [...]
...since he wore a bow tie, and using the Tucker Carlson/George' [...]
by One Citizen
Rep. Foxx (R-NC) is a retired English teacher who now represents the Winston-Salem/ Mount Airy district. She reportedly was autographing teabags at the Michelle Bachmann/ Dick Armey/ FoxNews astroturf extraveganza in D.C. on Wednesday.
In case you're not familiar with her
I hate to bring this up on a Friday night or, honestly, to go here at all, but we live in a country where carrying around pictures of the Dachau death camp to “protest” health care reform makes you an authentic representative of real America.
I wish there was [...]
Hard core dork tonight- Monk, White Collar, and a lot of Dragon Age, which I will tell you is by far the best RPG ever made by Bioware. Even better than KOTOR.
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Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 6.
1. Jon Walker asks, "Does Landrieu Not Know That All Her Demands Regarding The Public Option Have Already Been Addressed?" Specifically, Walker wonders if Landrieu is aware that "House Democrats adopted [Chuck] Schumer's idea of" [...]
Proverbs 6:1-2
My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you struck your palms with a stranger, you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.I just keep hearing Dave Ramsey’s constant exhortation to never, ever co-sign for anyone when I [...]
Look, I know unemployment is over 10%, there was a shooting in Texas and another in Florida, the Republicans just staged a hatefest on the Capitol steps, and Afghanistan is still an issue, and Health Care reform is moving forward slowly, but what happened to all the hard hitting journalism [...]
Josh Marshall has said that the reason for the bizarre disconnect between national media and reality is simply that “Washington is wired for control”, that years of Republican political dominance has made it so that most of the important non-elected players see the world through Republican eyes. It’s certainly [...]
The lead story at memeorandum is Robert George’s condemnation of Obama’s insufficiently weepy statement after the Fort Hood shooting yesterday:
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the [...]
