Democratic Diva

Just got home from a weekend trip to Lake Havasu City. This morning Mark and I watched Sunday Square Off on Channel 12 (they get the Phoenix channel there) from our room.
Good job to Brahm Resnik, who did his best not to let McCain slide with his talking points on government spending. [...]

From PIRG today:
Arizona PIRG Education Fund Releases New High Speed Rail Report
Calls on State of Arizona and ADOT to Follow Through on Commitment to High Speed Rail Funding & Development
Today the Arizona PIRG Education Fund released its new report The Right Track: Building a 21st Century High Speed Rail System for America which quantifies the [...]

This Jim Deakin cat claims he’s John McCain’s primary opponent and got a lengthy interview on MSNBC this afternoon wherein he trashed Cindy McCain for her support of gay marriage.
Behold the rocket surgeon that is Jim Deakin: jimdeakin.com

America should not have Czars
No doubt. Good thing that “Czar” is a made-up [...]

So Mark got it, and several Democrats I know did. Here’s the transcript from the Republic, though I’m told there are different versions out there:
“Hello, this is newly elected United States Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts and I am honored at the role that your Senator John McCain played in my election yesterday. When [...]

Someone on a message board reports she got the following robocall from newly elected MA Senator Scott Brown:
“This is your newly elected Senator from Mass. and I want to tell you how much I appreciate the role your Senator, John McCain played in my winning this election. Please support John McCain in his [...]

So here it is Tuesday and it’s Energy Blogging time. Of course, I’m thinking about tonight’s events so any post I write would take tonight’s MA Senate result into consideration. I was searching the ‘net for energy legislation and came across the Environment America Congressional Scorecard 2009.
If you think Republican Scott Brown’s election [...]

Per an AP article about the Senate Conference deliberations earlier this evening:
…Nebraska, Louisiana, Vermont and Massachusetts. These states are getting more federal help with Medicaid than other states. In the case of Nebraska — represented by Sen. Ben Nelson, who’s providing the critical 60th vote for the legislation to pass — the federal [...]