I really never thought I would hear something like this from Rahm: “The Republican leadership,” Mr. Emanuel said, “has made a strategic decision that defeating President Obama’s health care proposal is more important for their political goals than solving the health insurance problems that Americans face every day.” That’s the strongest position yet taken by […]
This story pisses me off: Late last night, House leadership decided it would postpone the release of its completed draft of health care reform legislation, after Blue Dog Democrats—and a variety of other concerned members–raised a number of objections to aspects of the proposal. The Blue Dogs are the biggest problem facing a decent healthcare […]
For years we never had power outages here. Now we average about once a month. The only thing that has changed is that Duke Energy now runs things, and since then service has gone to crap. Last year we had a major windstorm come through. Most of the area was without power for a week. […]
The chatter around the blogosphere right now is about this: Greg Sargent, blogging from his new digs, notes this: Update: NRCC spokesperson Ken Spain sends over a response: “The site is currently under construction. We are looking forward to relaunching the site and fostering a discussion on how Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues’ proposal […]
That is exactly the problem. All parties have basically agreed on an agreement – Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans, The White House and House Democrats. The ones not on board? House Republicans. Then to show how little they understand the economy, or how little they care about the American people, we have this little gem: According […]
Not for Obama, but for a plan Obama laid out that the right has tried to shoot down time and time again: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months. In an interview with Der […]
Environmentalists have feared that Bush would try to use his last year in office to push for opening up areas for drilling, and that is exactly his plan: The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world’s most endangered […]
Phil Gramm is McCain’s chief economic adviser and was one of the chief architects of the deregulation of the banking industry that helped get us into the mortgage crisis. Now George Bush is proposing sweeping new regulations of the banking industry to help prevent more problems. This appears to go strongly against Gramm’s beliefs, as […]
I was just doing my nightly dose of eye bleeding browsing of the right wing dribble out there (hey everyone likes a good nightmare), when I noticed this at Red state: Update: For another entrant into the below-mentioned department of legislation, check out this oldie but goodie from 2006: a Democrat State Senator from Ohio […]
This is from a press release that went out this afternoon from The Heritage Forests Campaign: The Bush administration today released documents announcing its intention to remove protections for more than six million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of Idaho. Idaho’s roadless backcountry areas are some of the nation’s last intact national […]