Is this the reason for the robocalls?
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 media construct [...]
John McCain hates you.
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 [...]
Already?
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 re-election [...]
Tuesday Energy Blogging: How the Senate has “filibustered” us out of good environmental legislation
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 has [...]
Much as I dislike the DINO anti-choicer, and his egregious toupee, I have to admit we could use a Ben Nelson here
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 government [...]
Why I’m for killing the health care bill, and why it will not be killed.
It’s not just because it’s a watered down giveaway to the insurance companies, one that mandates a large number of people to purchase a product from a private corporation with nebulous guarantees that they will get the service they are paying for but absolute guarantees that the power of the government to be brought down [...]
Stuff like this is why the blog has a category called “Conservative Misogyny”
Via Huffington Post, here’s a list of the 30 Senators (all Republican and including our own Kyl and McCain) who voted against Sen. Al Franken’s amendment that would penalize defense contractors who use mandatory arbitration clauses and other methods to discourage employees from reporting sexual assault: Franken’s amendment ended up passing, 68-30. Here’s a list [...]
