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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Who wrote these rules?

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Republicans are shutting down the Senate to protest the Health Care bill. There’s a rule that says you need unanimous consent to hold hearings after 2:00 PM. Why would anyone have proposed such a rule? Why would anyone have voted for it? It’s really time for the Democrats to turn the “nuclear option” tables on […]

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The Times incorrectly corrects itself

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

A few days ago I noted that the Times had once again stated as fact that James O’Keefe had posed as a pimp when he visited Acorn offices during his infamous “sting”. I pointed out that that “fact”, along with many of the other “facts” stated about this event have long since been disproven. Today, […]

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A great big shining lie?

Monday, March 22, 2010

This morning Paul Krugman contrasted the approach of the two parties to health care: the Democrats trying to accomplish something for the public good; the Republicans engaged in cynical and destructive partisan politics. In the course of his column he observed: And on the other side, here’s what Newt Gingrich, the Republican former speaker of […]

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The reality of health care reform

Monday, March 22, 2010

One of my son’s college friends, who we see each summer in Vermont,writes about the reality of health care reform for those who really need it. He’s a cancer survivor, still quite young, whose life choices have been severely restricted by his ability or lack of ability to get health care. The bill isn’t perfect, […]

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Dear Comrade Obama

Monday, March 22, 2010

Heil Obama! Thank you glorious leader for bringing socialism and/or communism and/or fascism and/or totalitarianism to our country. I always knew that making health insurance slightly easier to get, slightly more affordable, and slightly more fair would bring us to a new era, freeing us from the shackles of capitalism and freedom. The day we […]

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Lockwood redux

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Dave Collins, at the Day, informs us that Andrew Lockwood is once again running for office, this time for State Representative. Collins chose to concentrate on Lockwood’s tendency to leave his taxes unpaid. Perhaps Collins forgets that for the GOP, that’s a plus. After all, who better to represent a party with a no-tax mantra […]

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The Smartest Man on Television

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Stephen Colbert leaves Mary Matalin speechless by simply telling her he’s going to keep score of every GOP talking point she uses: She literally can’t cope. It’s a bit strange, is it not, when the most incisive interviewers on television are alleged comedians?

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More Journalistic Malpractice

Saturday, March 20, 2010

The New York Times, a helpful instrument in the right’s war on Acorn, which, along with the spinelessness of Congressional Democrats has now driven the group to bankruptcy, does not even have the grace to change its reporting in the face of the overwhelming evidence: This week, the Maryland chapter announced that it would not […]

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Friday Night Music-Anniversary Edition

Friday, March 19, 2010

Today is the 32nd anniversary of my marriage to one of the most saint like persons on earth. She has had to be, to put up with me. So, this song’s for her. Hard to believe Elton John was ever so young.

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Greenspan speaks

Friday, March 19, 2010

Perhaps our first mistake was believing that a regulator who did not believe in regulation was an indispensable man. Alan Greenspan has now decided that maybe, after all, the government has a role in regulating the economic system. I’m no economist, but I do have a degree in history from a relatively elite college, so […]

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