Archive for March, 2010
Unnecessarily Exciting, Part 2
As of last night, we know who the very shy “I’m with Stupak!” group consists of. He has nine followers, one of whom is Republican Anh “Joseph” Cao of Louisiana. The eight Democrats are Marion Berry (Arkansas), Sanford Bishop (Georgia), Kathy Dahlkemper (Pennsylvania), Steve Driehaus (Ohio), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Daniel Lipinski (Illinois), Alan Mollohan (West [...]
Unnecessarily Exciting
If you want to suffer through every little twist and turn of the House healthcare vote drama, here’s the Washington Post running update link. As of 9 pm Eastern, they have 179 declared Yes votes, 178 declared No votes, and 45 undecideds. If all the undecideds vote as they did last time around, the bill [...]
Heathcare Math No Longer Muddy?
The NYT has an article today which may lull Democrats into a sense of false security: In the homestretch of the health care debate, one obvious question being asked across the capital is whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi will find 216 votes to pass the bill. For a group of particularly jittery Democrats, the better question [...]
Just Saying
Time for another edition of “Just Saying”. Bart Stupak (who sees pro-abortion language under every stone the way Joe McCarthy used to see Communists and Communist sympathizers) is supposed to have a dozen followers, who are a) nameless, b) allegedly prepared to follow Bart over the cliff when he votes against health care reform (because [...]
And Then There Were Two
Igor Volsky of ThinkProgress was inducted yesterday into the Typo Hall of Fame (where he was warmly greeted by Josh Marshall, who has so far been the only member). Volsky made it into the elite group for a positively Marshall-esque performance: two typos in three words. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) is now the second Republican [...]
John Shadegg, Closet Pinko, Bravely Outs Himself
Based on his 2009 record, John Shadegg of Arizona is tied with five other Republicans as the most conservative member of the House. Yesterday morning, being interviewed on MSNBC by David Shuster, Shadegg ended up making a statement that would put him to the left of many Congressional Democrats: that he would support a single [...]
Yes? Really?
Who would have thought Crazy Kucinich had it in him? Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, said today that he plans to support the health care bill when it comes up for a vote this week. He becomes the first Democrat to publicly disclose his intention to switch from a “no” to a “yes” [...]
Horse and Marriage, Horse and Marriage
I’m not sure I understand why poor J.D. Hayworth — who, because he is running in a Republican primary against John “Gramps” McCain, and running from the far-right, to boot, is required to speak at least twice as much nonsense as McCain does — is getting so much flak for warning the nation that the [...]
Unprotected Oral Intercourse?
Yesterday, I wrote about Graham going crackers over healthcare reform being passed by reconciliation. According to him, that would “destroy the ability of this country to work together for a very long time.” Apparently, there’s lot of this going around. The latest to display symptoms of the infection is Brian Darling, of the conservative Heritage [...]
Swiftly Unraveled Assassination
The L.A. Times has an interesting story about the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud Mabhouh in Dubai in January. One of the most striking aspects of the affair was how quickly the Dubai police pieced together a fairly detailed narrative of how it all went down. Striking, because this was after all (allegedly) the handiwork [...]