After Explaining a Provocative Remark, Paul Makes Another The New York Times By KATE PHILLIPS May 21, 2010 WASHINGTON — Rand Paul, the newly nominated Republican candidate for Senate from Kentucky, touched off more controversy on Friday by calling the Obama administration “un-American” for taking a tough stance with BP over the company’s handling of […]
Lost Decade Looming? New York Times By PAUL KRUGMAN May 20, 2010 Despite a chorus of voices claiming otherwise, we aren’t Greece. We are, however, looking more and more like Japan. For the past few months, much commentary on the economy — some of it posing as reporting — has had one central theme: policy […]
Senate passes Wall Street reform; Now, its onto the conference committee OpenLeft By Chris Bowers 05/21/2010 9:07 PM A few minutes ago, the Senate passed Wall Street reform, 59-39. Tim Fernholtz breaks down the vote: Grassley, Snow, Collins, Scott brown vote yes on #FinReg. Cantwell, Feingold vote no. Specter and Byrd did not vote. Notably, […]
MSNBC anchor: Glenn Beck and Goldline are ’snake oil salesmen and scumbags’ Raw Story By David Edwards May 20th, 2010 Glenn Beck is under fire for his connection to a precious metals seller that is ripping off American people, according to critics. In a report released Wednesday, Rep. Anthony Weiner [D-NY] called for an investigation […]
On second attempt, Senate breaks GOP-led filibuster of Wall Street reform bill. ThinkProgress By Pat G. 05/20/2010 Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [D-NV] attempted to invoke cloture on Sen. Chris Dodd’s [D-CT] financial regulatory reform bill. However, the attempt failed 57-42, due to a number of factors: the absence of Sen. Arlen Specter [D-PA], […]
It’s only been 16 years since Newt Gingrich led the charge for the Republican’s Contract with America that gave his Party control of both Houses of Congress. It was the time of the rise of the Religious Right Republicans and the insertion of the "culture wars" into political dialogue. House Speaker Gingrich himself resigned from […]
There’s something very wrong with the Mark Souder story. One can’t help but look at the video and pictures of Mark Souder and Tracy Jackson without noticing that he’s something of a disheveled dweeb and that she’s a younger, attractive woman. She lives in Syracuse Indiana in a nice house with a pond with her […]
Sheldon Whitehouse Lists the NEPA Exclusions By: emptywheel May 19, 2010 At yesterday’s Environment and Public Works hearing on the BP disaster, Sheldon Whitehouse asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Council on Environmental Quality Chair Helen Sutley why BP had been exempted from doing an Environmental Impact Study on the Macondo drilling site. He listed […]
It took me a while to figure out why the fall of Dr. George Rekers so stuck in my mind. In his case, it was more than just his hypocrisy, it was connected to a memory of my own [a memory…]. With Mark Souder, I woke up this morning knowing the part that bothered me […]
… When Congressman Mark Souder took the microphone at a tea-party gathering of the Elkhart County Patriots last month, I thought to myself that he must be feeling pressure from his deep-pockets challenger, Bob Thomas, who was commanding the area’s airwaves with commercial after commercial criticizing Souder as "a career politician." Disheveled and about the […]