Interesting. State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor making a play for fiscally conservative voters, said yesterday that the state's universal health care law is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the … [Read more...]
Replacing Brown with a Progressive Dem… in the State House
On the show, we obviously hit on health care policy, but we also breached many subjects to make sure he's not just a one-issue candidate. He talked about state house transparency, suggesting open meeting laws would cure a lot of problems. … [Read more...]
Reconciliation, the “nuclear option,” and reality
Back when Republicans had the majority and Trent Lott ran the Senate, Republicans were more than happy to use the reconciliation process to pass their agenda. You see, they acted like a majority party with conviction for their ideology, and … [Read more...]
Did anyone else call Sen. Brown’s office today?
So far over 800,000 people have called their Senators about including a public option and passing REAL health care reform in the Virtual March that is going on right now. Virtual March for Public Option and Real Health Care Reform Members … [Read more...]
Brown apparently thinks his election was not consistent with “representative leadership.” What??
Scott Brown, as you will recall, was elected by a margin of roughly 52-47. He didn't get close to 60% of the vote, but in our majority-rules system, 52% was enough to put him in the Senate. And yet, apparently Senator Brown (or, at … [Read more...]
Senator Brown introduces bill to tax TARP bonuses! What??
Holy cow! Has Senator Brown turned the corner? Has he seen the light and realized that being against bank bailouts actually means you have to be against bank bailouts? SEN. BROWN TO ANNOUNCE BILL TO TAX WALL STREET BONUSES TO … [Read more...]
Senator Lockstep casts his first vote
It wasn't close, so Brown's vote wasn't the deciding one. Nonetheless, on his first somewhat controversial vote in the Senate, Scott Brown voted just the way Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Republican leadership told him to. … [Read more...]
Will Illinois Senate Race Follow MA Pattern? Heed Rasmussen.
Rasmussen polling (who brought Massachusetts the now infamous "Brown is within single digits poll") today is reporting on the Illinois US Senate race: Illinois Senate: Kirk 46%, Giannoulias 40% Republican Mark Kirk holds a … [Read more...]
Brown moves up his swearing-in … to block a nomination??
Now, we don't want you to get the idea that we're obsessed with Scott Brown just because this is the fourth post we've written about him today. It's just that, so far, he's been an excellent source of material. See, for several days … [Read more...]
Underpants bomber cooperating – no waterboarding required!
A popular right-wing meme is that you can only get useful information out of alleged terrorists by torturing them. Oh, what's that, Scott? Waterboarding isn't torture? All right, then -- by using "enhanced interrogation … [Read more...]
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