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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Tim Kaine, DNC Chair, carries water for the right

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, who is an alleged Democrat, former long shot candidate for President, and current head of the DNC, just signed a law allowing Virginians to buy “Choose Life” license plates. The proceeds go to fund anti-abortion front groups posing as pregnancy clinics. Kaine, who is allegedly in favor of a woman’s right […]

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Republicans threaten to go nuclear, again

Monday, April 6, 2009

I must admit to being mystified at the workings of the United States Senate, the ways of which passeth all understanding. Bernie Sanders has put a hold on another terrible Obama financial policy nominee, a fellow named Gary Gensler, who Obama has nominated to a seat on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Gensler is best […]

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Spring Progress Report

Sunday, April 5, 2009

I can’t really bring myself to think about politics today, so I’m posting a few pictures. One of the nice things about blogging is that ultimately you can put up anything you want. This year I’m thinking about regularly posting pictures of my wife’s garden. Right now, the only thing growing is the garlic, which […]

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First Gasp for a New Geezer

Sunday, April 5, 2009

I have to pay tribute to a friend of ours, who celebrated his 60th birthday last night with a big bash at the German club in Mystic. Peter and his wife, depicted below, are good Democrats both. He and I were both committed Lamont delegates at the 2006 state convention. Music was provided by the […]

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Nationally known

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Atul Shah, who wrote a guest post for this blog recently, has made our chapter of Drinking Liberally nationally famous. Listen here The show was in New York, which explains the seemingly gratuitous statement about New York.

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Friday Night Music for Hard Times

Friday, April 3, 2009

This week, rather than searching for a song by a specific artist, I decided to search for the best version(s) of a song. I first heard this song on an album of Stephen Foster’s music sung by Thomas Hampson, a classical music singer. The album is called American Dreamer, and if you think Stephen Foster […]

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Unintended consequences

Friday, April 3, 2009

Chris Hayes of the Nation, who many of us know from his frequent appearances on Countdown, has uncovered a truly marvelous example of corporate perversion of the tax laws: Thanks to an obscure tax provision, the United States government stands to pay out as much as $8 billion this year to the ten largest paper […]

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Courtney does good, Himes not so much

Friday, April 3, 2009

You would think that Congress would be wary of sanctioning more bonuses at bailed out institutions, particularly at AIG, but of course you’d only be partly right. Congress is more than happy to help those bankers, so long as it can do so in a way that, at least at the moment, is totally opaque […]

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Tit for tat, not for the Democrats

Thursday, April 2, 2009

26 Democrats have gone on record opposed to using the reconciliation process to pass climate change legislation, thus handing the Republicans a victory without cost to them. Most of those Democrats will most likely take the same position on health care, thus dooming the American people to a broken health care system, and thus a […]

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Larry Summers’ past at Harvard

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

It’s been only about 70 days, but already Bush is beginning to seem like a bad memory. Obama has been a breath of fresh air in many ways, but there’s some notable exceptions, made all the more depressing for the very reason that they are so few. The most notable exception is the quality of […]

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