There’s a lot of bitching by Senators about the cost of health care reform. For example: And on Sunday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) echoed her colleague, telling “Fox News Sunday” that should the latest version of health care reform prove insufficient in bending the cost curve, she and others would “have to go back to […]
If you head to one of Sarah Palin’s book tours and want to get your picture taken with her then be prepared to fork over some bucks. It turns out that you aren’t allowed to have cameras or cellphones near her. A spokesman for Palin’s book tour said the crowd wouldn’t be allowed to take […]
Image via Wikipedia Everyone knows that Boehner loves his golf, but it turns out he loves it a little too much: By all public estimations, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is a pretty good golfer. He should be, given the $82,998 his political action committee has spent on golf outings so far this year, […]
According to a report in the Financial Times, Microsoft has approached News Corp. about de-listing their sites from Google, which would be an apparent escalation in the search engine wars. It appears that Microsoft isn’t limiting this to just News Corp either. It’s reported that they are approaching numerous online publishers and offering to pay […]
Again from NY-23: We crunched the FEC contribution numbers this afternoon to discover that 95 percent of Hoffman’s donations came from individuals and PACs based outside of the district. (Hoffman himself doesn’t even live in NY-23.) Only $12,360 of the $265,341 he’s raised came from potential constituents. Hoffman collected money from donors in 35 states. […]
So he basically calls the President a liar during a prime time, nationally televised speech to a join session of Congress. He then acts like his “emotions” got the best of him and apologizes. Now he wants to capitalize on it: Yeah – this guy is off his rocker.
Whatever happened to the phrase “compassionate conservative”? I guess the right has dropped that whole mantra, as evident of this video of Michael Steele: The girl Steele is poking fun at was just explaining how her mother died last year from cancer and couldn’t afford the medicines to fight the disease. You want a death […]
Good for them: “On Tuesday, August 4, GEICO instructed its ad buying service to redistribute its inventory of rotational spots on FOX-TV to their other network programs, exclusive of the Glenn Beck program,” said a spokesperson for GEICO Corporate Communications in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “As of August 4, GEICO no longer runs any paid […]
This is why we also need banking reform: US banks stand to collect a record $38.5bn in fees for customer overdrafts this year, with the bulk of the revenue coming from the most financially stretched consumers amid the deepest recession since the 1930s, according to research. The fees are nearly double those reported in 2000. […]
I just love my local politics, especially from the Republican side of things. There is always some new controversy coming up. The latest involves the county chair: Butler County Republican Party Chairman Tom Ellis is being sued by his own brother for allegedly defrauding him and his mother for more than $500,000, court records show. […]