Every couple of weeks, in between visits to a Pampered Chef outlet or the Iphone store or a wine party held by Cato or Reason, McMegan will belch out a ridiculous post that some poor bastard like Tom Levenson or Susan of Texas will have to dutily note [...]
Live in the Massachussetts 8th? Mike Capuano wants to hear from you.
Seriously. All of you who live in or near Mike Capuano’s district need to get on the phone first thing tomorrow and tell him how you can’t wait to fund a primary challenger if he kills this thing.
(202) 225-5111
(617) [...]
I don’t care if you have to “ram it down their throats,” as the Republicans are fond of saying:
The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, [...]
Although it has been a tough couple weeks for Jewish Canadians, I really hope that Dan Senor gets into the 2010 New York State Senate race, if only because this is one of my favorite Colbert interviews ever. He actually recommends that Stephen bring his family to northern Iraq [...]
Connie Saltonstall has her web page up.
Here is her twitter feed.
And here is our very own ActBlue thermometer to, if nothing else, feel good for a brief moment as you donate to someone who will at the very least irritate Bart Stupak:
Stupak irritates [...]
Some commenters in the last post wondered where I came from. Others asked to have me kicked out. I guess that’s the Balloon Juice community’s way to ask for an introduction.
So, hi, I’m mistermix. I’m a friend of DougJ’s IRL, as the kids say. When he pastes a rant “from [...]
Remember the number one concern for Republicans when their own Marc Foley had some issues? For those who don’t, it was… What did Nancy Pelosi know?
I’m sure it will surprise no one that their number one concern in the aftermath of the Massa mess is… “What did Nancy [...]
I watched the Senate Finance and Health Committee markups live blogging most of it before that big check for Soros arrived I bought new pajamas and a case of Cheetos.
I watched the voting patters of West Virginia native Sen. [...]
Great piece by Conor Friedersdorf about the kind of legal work the McCarthyites at Keep America Safe are labeling treason:
Orin Kerr, a law professor who blogs at The Volokh Conspiracy, has published a devastating take-down of Mr. McCarthy’s argument. It is worth reading in full. I’ll excerpt just one [...]
Blizzard of posts this morning, so here is an open thread for random babble.
I can just feel that spring is here. Woke up to the sun beaming through my window at 6 or so, had a good cup of coffee and a good walk (trying to walk some of the [...]
HuffPo notes that Florida’s Nelson has signed on. What does your Senator think? Phone and ask.
If your Senators already support the public option, phone them anyway. Unlike liberals, who rarely phone their Reps and Senators, angry stupid teabaggers phone all day. They will really appreciate a friendly voice.
Switchboard: (202) [...]
This seems to have gone beneath the radar for too long and someone needs to start screaming about it. The Democrat running to replace Evan Bayh, Brad Ellsworth, is one of the members of Stupak’s gang:
11 Stupak bloc:
Bart Stupak, Jerry Costello, Charlie Wilson, Kathy Dahlkemper, Joe Donnelly, [...]
Colbert mocks Glenn Beck’s advertisers:
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“Yes. A crisis garden. When the end times come and you’re tilling the earth with a human femur, while the sky is raining fire, you’re gonna [...]
This can’t be serious:
Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in [...]
This will get wholly ignored in the Senate:
House Democratic leaders on Wednesday banned budget earmarks to private industry, ending a practice that has steered billions of dollars in no-bid contracts to companies and set off corruption scandals.
The ban is the most forceful step yet in a three-year effort [...]
This is excellent news for conservatives:
Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign’s efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles.
Mr. Ensign, Republican of [...]
If the mighty Rahmbama was able to eject Massa from Congress, how did he miss the continued existence of Dennis Kucinich, who’s done little but bitch and obstruct for his 7 terms in Congress:
In fact, according to the Web site GovTrack, of the 97 bills Kucinich has sponsored [...]
I miss the Olympics. Not the “sports” part, because I don’t know from sports, but all the political news recently has been of the Giant Sucking Hell-Vortex variety, so I miss the novelty-pictures aspect of the Olympics. Stuff like this, as “borrowed” from Go Fug Yourself:
The only real surprising thing about Massa so far is that given his Navy experience, we have yet to hear any wetsuit anecdotes. Although I will admit that snorkeling is a new one.
Even though I want to feel sorry for this guy (but he won’t let me, because he [...]
As the investigation regarding the sexual assault allegations against Steelers quarterback Ben Roerhlisberger continues, KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh reports that Roethlisberger admitted to having “sexual contact” with the woman who claims sexual assault, but that there was no intercourse.
The admission came during an interview of Roethlisberger conducted at the [...]
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