It’s a good thing Esquire Magazine’s Sexiest Woman Alive, Mila Kunis, can get by on her looks because she clearly not a deep thinker: In her interview with Esquire‘s Ross McCammon, Mila doesn’t talk about dating — Ashton Kutcher’s name doesn’t come up. But she doesn’t shy away from getting political. “The way that Republicans […]
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Every State That Elected A Republican Governor in 2010 Saw Unemployment Drop
I saw this over the weekend and thought I’d share this morning… According to an Examiner.com analysis, the 17 states that elected a Republican Governors in 2010 hes seen unemployment drop at an average of 1.35% — well ahead of the national average of .9%. Here is how much the unemployment has rate declined in […]
Hous GOP Will Vote on Balanced Budget Amendment That Permits Unlimited Federal Spending
House Republicans expect begin debate on a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution as early as today. The measure of the, H.J. Res 2, which is part of the debt-ceiling deal Democrats agreed to in August is watered down political cop-out on the part of the Republican leadership. Apparently House Speaker John Boehner thinks this vanilla […]
The fallacy of the 10:1 Mix of Spending Cuts and Tax Hikes Question
I suspect most of you have seen or heard about this exchange during the Republican Presidential Debate in Iowa last Thursday night: It was a bullshit question, first of all unless those spending cuts are immediate they’ll never materialize… particularly when the baseline for negotiations is that the taxes increase are made in the first […]
Video: Newt Gingrich BLASTS Chris Wallace for his “Gotcha” Questions at Iowa Debate
This is just pure golden goodness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxQTp07KS_k&feature=player_embedded Ouch, I love it! It’s about time Republican candidates started calling the sound bite media on the carpet for wasting everyone’s with time trivial, tabloid gotcha questions instead of asking substantial policy questions. Newt was absolutely right to go after Chris Wallace the way he did tonight… and judging […]
Wisconsin GOP Ends Union Reforms Stalemate
Republican senators in Wisconsin broke the weeks long stalemate over Governor Scott Walker’s collective bargaining reforms last night. In short, once it became clear that senate democrats, who had fled the state to delay action on the bill, were unwilling negotiate republicans amended the bill to remove appropriations and passed the collective bargaining reforms without […]
2010 Election Wrap-up
Well now that the dust has settled a little I thought I’d wade in with my thoughts on the outcome of Tuesday’s election. First overall it was good night for Republicans, they picked up 60 seats in the House of Representatives, 6 in the Senate, 6 Governorships and dozens of seats in state legislatures all […]
Poll: American’s Don’t Much Like Congressional Republicans
Tom Jenson, writing on Public Policy Polling’s blog notes that Congressional Republicans aren’t terribly popular Americans… or even their own base: Our last national generic ballot poll found the Republicans ahead 45-42 despite the fact that Congressional Republicans had a 24/61 approval rating. Even among respondents who said they were going to vote Republican the […]
AP: Key Health Care Senators Have Industry Ties
I meant to post the story on Friday but I wasn’t able to get to it so figured I’d lead off with today… The Associated Press reported last week on the ties between several key Senators and the health care industry. Among them Connecticut’s own Chris Dodd. Sen. Dodd’s wife Jackie Clegg Dodd sits on […]
Washington Times: U.S. House Restricts Ethics Probes
I would love to be able to point a finger at the Democrats and say something like ‘Most ethical Congress in history??? Heh!’ But I can’t Republicans are just as culpable as Democrats in fostering the culture of corruption that pervades Washington: When Democrats made their case during the 2006 elections about why they should […]
Righto-sphere Poll
Cassandra posted these questions from John Hawkins survey of rightwing bloggers at Villainous Company earlier and though I’d add my two cents. 1) Do you think the GOP will gain or lose seats in the House in 2010? They’ll pick up a handful of seats. 2) Do you think the GOP will gain or lose […]
CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of ‘Enhanced Interrogations’
The Washington Post and ABC News are reporting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on Enhanced Interrogations Techniques and their use on on Abu Zubaydah. From the Washington Post: Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against […]
Mortgage Cramdown Bill Dies in Senate
Barack Obama’s economic policy suffered a setback yesterday when a bill that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to force lenders to adjust the principal on mortgages failed in the Senate. The bill received 45 votes, 6 short of the 51 needed for passage… A dozen Democrats joined Republicans in opposing it: For the second time […]
Arlen Specter Switching Parties Today
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is leaving the Republican Party today and I can’t say I’m sad to see him go… Specter, was one of three Republicans to vote from Pres. Obama’s pork laden stimulus plan and was expected to face a tough primary challenge from Pat Toomey next year. Here’s Specter statement: I have been […]
Is April 21, 2009 The Day Bipartisanship Died?
There’s no doubt that our political process has become poised by hyper partisan rhetoric but so far we have resisted the temptation of criminalizing policy differences. That all changed on April 21, 2009 when Pres. Barack Obama suggested that Bush Administration lawyers who advised the CIA on the law and interrogation practices may subjected to […]