Stories like this just really give you a warm and fuzzy feeling about the insurance industry: Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage next year as it seeks to raise additional revenue to meet profit expectations. In a third-quarter earnings conference call in late October, officials […]
This has been a very interesting and sad story that really hasn’t received much attention: Georgia’s powerful House speaker resigned Thursday after a suicide attempt and allegations by his ex-wife that he carried on an affair with a lobbyist. Glenn Richardson, the state’s first GOP speaker since Reconstruction, had won sympathy from even his political […]
As the hour of President Obama’s speech approaches we are starting to get leaked details. In those details we find out that he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over the next 6 months. He is also calling for an end to the war within three years. Hopefully that is an obtainable timeline, […]
Maurice Clemmons wasn’t the first person that Huckabee released from Prison, only to have them go out and continue a life of crime. Wayne Dumond was a rapist who Huckabee released, only to go out and rape and kill a woman shortly after being freed: New sources, including an advisor to Gov. Mike Huckabee, have […]
I’ve been watching Morning Joe for over an hour and they didn’t mention the killing of the Washington State cops or Huckabee’s involvement. They talked about Huckabee being the front runner in the GOP polls for 2012 and him maybe not running, but it wasn’t until guest Donnie Deutsch mentioned the case that Scarborough could […]
Image via Wikipedia What a way to really shrink the size of the RNC tent: First Read has obtained a resoultion being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members for comments that proposes a conservative litmus test of sorts. This comes on the heels of a rift in the party that was exposed in the […]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife A South Carolina House panel is holding a hearing today on the pending impeachment of Mark Sanford. So far not much has come out of it, but I did just get this in my inbox: COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Embattled SC Gov. Mark Sanford faces 37 ethics charges he broke […]
While many on the left side of the blogosphere seemed to enjoy Chuck Todd, I have never liked him. I don’t believe he is the “political insight machine” that so many credit him with and here is more proof of it: John Cole, who caught this little tweet of <cough> brilliance from Todd, says this: […]
Image via Wikipedia We knew that it was only a matter of time before the public shifted the blame of the economic mess from Republicans to Democrats and that time has come: Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a […]
CNN has ran a very interesting poll that gives us a lot to think about: The poll indicates that a slight majority, 51 percent, of Republicans would prefer to see the GOP in their area nominate candidates who agree with them on all the major the issues even if they have a poor chance of […]