Word on the street is that Dems have the votes to get this whole health care huckleberry through the House tonight.
I know some of the amendments suck. But still, we’re one step closer to getting health insurance for tens of millions of Americans.
I have a hard time writing about health [...]
Because I have no life, I’m listening to C-Span while playing Dragon Age, and the dumbest man in the House, Mike Pence, just gave what can only be described as the funniest speech I have heard from the well of the House. I seriously hope someone can put the close [...]
I just got an email from a guy named Dudley Sharp supporting Rick Perry’s decision to suspend the panel that was looking into the prosecution of Cameron Todd Willingham. The piece is pretty incoherent (link corrected)—there are no factual statements of any kind and it opens with an extended [...]
I think I am going to be eating beef vegetable soup for about two more days. I suppose there are worse things to eat. I froze two big containers, but I still have a bunch left.
Lots of pictures came in today, but this was my favorite:
Another [...]
Jack Kingston, R-Ga, on the Democratic health care bill:
“This bill is a wrecking ball to the entire economy,” said Representative Jack Kingston, Republican of Georgia. “ We need targeted specific reforms to help people who have fallen through the health care cracks.”
Ron Beasley, swallowtail.
Shawn, butterfly.
Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you [...]
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 [...]
John Cole, DougJ, Tim F., Anne Laurie
