All Posts Tagged With: "Tom Carper"
The Day the Internet Went Black
DD gave us a heads up yesterday that Wikipedia was going black today. If you’ve been spinning around the Internet today, it is pretty dazzling to see the sites that have joined them:
18Jan2012 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
Tea Leaf Alert: Christine O’Donnell
The tea leaves think that Christine O’Donnell isn’t running for Senate.
3Aug2011 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
The Responsibilities of the Democratic Electorate
The need to purge our party of people that don’t take their responsibilities to the people of Delaware is an unending job and it takes a concentrated effort. We have to often choose our battles so that we can win a few rather than lose a bunch of them. In 2012, we will again be in a target-rich environment.
23May2011 | liberalgeek | 5 comments | Continued
Dean Baker Writes to Senator Carper On Social Security
Dean Baker’s (from the Center for Economic and Policy Research) letter to Tom Carper, reprinted with permission.
26Apr2011 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
Delaware Delegation Proposes National Park
The Delaware Congressional delegation introduced a bill to designate a national park in the state.
11Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
Reading The Tea Leaves – Carper
The tea leaves say that Carper is running for re-election in 2012 and that he’s expecting to face Christine O’Donnell.
27Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 36 comments | Continued
Tornoe’s Toon: Christine O’Donnell Dancing With the Stars
Is it too good to be true? Probably, but a cartoonist can dream, can’t he?
2Dec2010 | Rob Tornoe | 7 comments | Continued
Call Senator Carper, Sign the Petition
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is working on an effort today to get constituents of Wall Street reform conferees asking us to sign the Hoenig-Fisher letter
16Jun2010 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
Tornoe’s Toon: Carper Hearts Big Oil
Memo to Tom Carper: Asking tough questions of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico does not suddenly make you a tree-hugging hippie on the subject.
As a ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, wasn’t it your responsibility to ask these questions [...]
Where There’s A Good Bill To Weaken, Tom Carper Is There
Tom Carper has introduced an amendment to the Financial Reform bill to pre-empt tougher state laws to weaker federal standards.
13May2010 | Unstable Isotope | 14 comments | Continued
A Tale of Two Senators
I don’t know if you caught the story in the News Journal this morning featuring the work that Senator Kaufman is doing on financial reform. He talks passionately about dismantling Too Big To Fail and reinstating much of the Glass-Steagall act.
By contrast, Tom Carper (the one we are stuck with) is already back-pedaling on important [...]
I Feel Like I’ve Heard This Song Before
Delaware’s very own Tom Carper is ready to surrender and weaken the Financial Reform bill right when Republicans seem to be weakening.
Carper, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said that he thinks a bipartisan deal can be reached on financial regulatory reform legislation, and argued it should be done by dropping the most contentious [...]
Tom Carper Surprise Townhall Call
I am currently on a Tom Carper virtual townhall meeting. I’ll try to liveblog it.
12Apr2010 | liberalgeek | 25 comments | Continued
Tom Carper Trying to Help Kill Public Option Effort in the Senate
According to this article in The Hill, Dick Durbin is thinking that the entire caucus needs to come to grips with the idea of voting down any amendments to the HCR reconciliation fix, even the Public Option. And here is Tom Carper — working on his centrist cred, no doubt — egging this on:
11Mar2010 | cassandra_m | 5 comments | Continued
Carper On Board? ***Updated*** Carper Says No
TPM is reporting that Tom Carper is now saying that he will sign onto the letter to pass the public option through reconciliation!
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) tells TPMDC that he plans to sign a letter urging Senate leadership to pass a public option via reconciliation.
“I expect that I will” sign, Carper said. The letter, [...]
Warm Up Your Dialing Fingers
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 bill is to correct some of the issues that the House had with the Senate bill. We don’t know exactly what’s in [...]
18Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 23 comments | Continued
Thanks, Tom Carper!
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 is threatening to end its support for President Barack Obama’s health overhaul effort because of a rift with the administration over protecting brand-name biotech drugs from [...]
Carper Fights For His Base
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 the unfairness of hurting the profits of drug companies.
Carper is doing it again. Byron Dorgan has filed an amendment to allow drug reimportation [...]
12Dec2009 | Unstable Isotope | 22 comments | Continued
Carper’s Latest Compromise Plan
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 is apparently the go-to guy for compromise in the Senate health care debate. Some details of Carper’s latest trial balloon are now emerging [...]
2Dec2009 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Carper on Hardball
This is from a show on 11/25 and Chuck Todd interviews him:
27Nov2009 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
Tom Carper Never Lets Go the Rightwing Talking Points
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:
25Nov2009 | cassandra_m | 63 comments | Continued
Bulo’s 2009 Top 10 MVPs (Most Valuable to the Progressive Cause)
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 open government legislation were signed into law. A governor with a progressive vision began to make his mark on the state. A president began [...]
23Nov2009 | El Somnambulo | 42 comments | Continued
Tom Carper’s Chief of Staff Now Lobbies for Wellpoint
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:
18Nov2009 | cassandra_m | 20 comments | Continued
Carper Makes His Crappy Idea Even Crappier
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 coverage, Carper said the alternative would permit them to set up a non-profit board, likely appointed by the president, to offer insurance.
“That kind of [...]
Senator Carper Tries to Disguise That He is Missing the Point
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:
2Nov2009 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
