Sorry for the short diary, but I'm surprised no one posted on this: "Capuano took to the microphone, looked out at his colleagues and condensed what he'd learned into two words. "You're screwed," he told his friends in the House, according … [Read more...]
A disagreement with Mike Capuano
We got those touchscreen machines all over the country after the 2000 election made a national spectacle of the problems with punch card voting machines, but Massachusetts had its statewide spectacle of the same thing four years earlier, … [Read more...]
Has It Really Come to This?
Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune. Markos quoted in Washington Monthly: Two in five Democratic voters either consider themselves unlikely to vote at this point in time, or have already made the firm decision to remove themselves from the … [Read more...]
Rep. Stephen Lynch: “Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege”
Massachusetts Congressman -- and former union ironworker -- Stephen Lynch recently sat down with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to talk about the labor movement and the status of vital pro-worker legislation -- like the … [Read more...]
Republicans attack, Democrats react. Awful.
Kudos to Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson as the only Democratic congressperson in the last hour to comment on the ridiculousness of Republican claims about the Health Reform bill being debated now (live on C-SPAN). The Repubs criticize the debt … [Read more...]
Your Media at Work
Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune. I try to avoid writing diaries that say "The media sucks," because it's such a cliche and so easy. But sometimes ... During their September 10 editions, the three evening network news programs … [Read more...]
Rebuttal to Kathleen Parker’s Column on Abortion and Health Reform in the Washington Post
In today's Washington Post, Kathleen Parker acknowledges that the bills in Congress don't require federal funding of abortion services, but she then abandons the facts and goes on to repeat baseless anti-choice talking points. The truth is … [Read more...]
Four Frozen Pols in the Race for Senate
But Lynch really isn't really fooling anyone. Like the three other current or former Congressmen mulling a race are waiting for a smoke signal from the Kennedy compound. It's like Lynch, Congressmen Ed Markey, Mike Capuano and former … [Read more...]
Redistricting Revisited (WITH POLL)
District 1: (Berkshires and Pioneer Valley) Berkshire County (all) Hampden County (all except Brimfield, Holland, Palmer, and Wales) Hampshire County (all except Plainfield) District 2: (Route 2 corridor and Greater Worcester) Franklin … [Read more...]
Taking Pains
Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune. People consider me rather relaxed, an easy person to get along with (with some exceptions, of course). The plain fact is, if you have that reputation, people will try to take advantage of you. And they … [Read more...]
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