Archive for July 28th, 2009
At Least We’re Not the Only Ones
Surprise! Another bit of GOP hypocrisy on the Recovery Act funds. […]
Jon Stewart Destroys Bill Kristol On Healthcare
Jon Stewart gets Bill Kristol to admit the the VA system is an exceptional healthcare system but that the rest of Americans don’t deserve it. Kristol gets caught up in the typical GOP talking point trap of “government run healthcare is really awful but it’s so good that private insurance can’t compete.” Republicans are just incoherent on this issue. At least he wasn’t repeating the Faux News talking point that Barack Obama wants to kill your grandmother.
Eagles Training Camp Signals Beginning of Another Disappointing Football Season
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) – Eagles begin training camp at Lehigh University this week with the same coach and same quarterback who have sucked just enough to seem good enough to not fire for the past..what? eight years…seems like twenty. Update: Jim Johnson, Eagles defensive mastermind, dead.
How Did I Not Catch the French Fried Earmark?
Laurel Democratic Sen. Robert L. Venables — a neighbor of one of the company’s co-owners — inserted the $50,000 into the General Assembly’s annual bond bill to help Fry Manufacturing LLC produce its demonstration model.
Sotomayor Passes Senate Judiciary Committee
This just in: As expected, the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted mostly along party lines to give a favorable recommendation to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. Her name will now be sent to the full Senate, where she will be confirmed next week. The vote was 13 […]
New CBO Report: Public Option Will NOT Drive Private Insurers Out Of Business
Oh well, there goes another talking point. The report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the public option proposed by Democrats would not drive private insurers out of business and most people would still choose to get their medical coverage through employers. The CBO Report also calls into question the Lewin Group’s analysis: The […]
Drug Companies Get Subsidized For Bombarding Us With Ads
I really hate all the pharma ads on TV. Now I have an even better reason to abhor them. (h/t Digby) Meanwhile, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, has introduced a bill called the Say No to Drug Ads Act. It would amend the federal tax code to prevent pharmaceutical companies from deducting the […]
CRI An Honest Broker?-Part 2
Please allow El Somnambulo to apologize to the (presumably) fine folks at the Caesar Rodney Institute. Yesterday’s article was, by necessity, incomplete. He feels confident that, upon further examination, the Institute will be revealed as a great place where good folks do great things in a non-partisan manner for the citizens of Delaware. In typically […]
Republicans Are (Not, Well Maybe) The Party Of Crazy Eileen
Republicans, we warned you this would happen if you didn’t act to quell the birthers. Now you’re hostages to the birther movement. Is this the image you want to project? Mike Stark from the Huffington Post went to Capitol Hill to ask Republicans if they believe Obama is an natural-born citizen. Watch the Republicans try […]
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