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Perriello Will Vote Against Senate Health Care
You gotta hand it to Rep. Tom Perriello — he’s holding firm on no federal funding for abortion in health care. While I certainly don’t believe this is enough (as a Catholic he should be much more pro-active in defending human life), it’s a lot more than most folks expected.
This Isn’t Even Classy… But Effective?
One has to admire certain British MEPs for their candor.  In this instance, I’m pretty certain Farage missed wildly… So what was the point of this exercise?  Certainly no one would talk to the British Prime Minister or the President of the United States like this… or any other foreign dignitary for that matter.  Which of [...]
Boondoggle
The NRSC hits this one out of the park: That’s just well done.
Global Warming Makes Blizzards Worse?
According to TIME it does: There is some evidence that climate change could in fact make such massive snowstorms more common, even as the world continues to warm. As the meteorologist Jeff Masters points out in his excellent blog at Weather Underground, the two major storms that hit Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., this winter — [...]
Score one for the 10th Amendment
From the WaPo, Virginia’s Senate rejects the health care mandate from Washington, with five Democrats voting with the GOP minority. Supporters argued that the bill was not about health-care reform but whether the government can mandate that a citizen purchase anything. “If they can mandate this, they can mandate anything,” said Sen. Frederick M. Quayle (R-Chesapeake), [...]
Oh. My. Goodness. (but it works!)
I’m a big fan of campaign ads that hit hard and are memorable.  Who isn’t? This one was forwarded to me by a friend, and frankly… I like it: Now you could be someone who thinks this goes WAY over the line. Is that so?
5.3% GDP in 4Q?
…but something’s not sizing up here: That won’t be enough to significantly reduce the unemployment rate, now 10 percent. In fact, most analysts expect the rate to keep rising for months and to remain close to 10 percent through year's end. To drive down the jobless rate by just 1 percentage point this year, the economy would [...]
Once again, DailyKos steps over the line…
No class And the teabagging, bipartisan response in front of an all GOP audience is over. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell had a “black woman”, “asian guy”, and “military guy” behind him. The seating chart for this thing must have been six months in the making. Of course, the ironic thing is Kos may have gotten it right: [...]
How to Forge a Consensus…
The Wall Street Journal (and just about everyone else) is either aghast, in denial, or playing a game of see-I-told-you-so on global warming cooling climate change. We don’t doubt that Mr. Jones would have phrased his emails differently if he expected them to end up in the newspaper. His May 2008 email to Mr. Mann regarding [...]
Two Sides of the Same Coin?
This will give plenty of ammo to the old 3rd party line — Scozzafava threw her support today behind, not the conservative, but to the Democratic candidate in NY-23: You know me, and throughout my career, I have been always been an independent voice for the people I represent. I have stood for our honest principles, [...]