Politics As Usual

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• WTF?

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  I mean, WTF? Sen. Joe Lieberman’s committee is in charge of this. Someone needs to ask him why this was allowed to happen.
  3 hours ago

• Scenes from a Marriage

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  So much for Mark Sanford’s “hopes to reconcile.” It’d be too easy to trot out the tired Evita quote for the missus’ response. Between the book deal and the TV appearances (has she been on Oprah yet? I honestly don’t know), she should land on her feet faster than he. Think Elizabeth Edwards ...
  11 hours ago

• Oops

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Time to make noise! Obviously, the lobbyists are all over this bill and they hoped to sneak this through. Don’t let them – call your senators: WASHINGTON — A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such ...
  11 hours ago

• Pelosi

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  From a Politico email: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments yesterday signaling willingness to scrap the public option already have insiders talking about what she wants in return. With the public option’s future always in doubt, there has been an assumption that Pelosi would extract other concessions in order ...
  12 hours ago

• Renditions

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  The worst thing about reading this is knowing there will be no consequences . Nope, nada, zip. WASHINGTON — Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in ...
  13 hours ago

• Reform

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  No, that’s not a typo: They’re making it easier to trade derivatives. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig: A bipartisan coalition in the House voted late Thursday to make it easier for corporations to engage in complex derivatives trades without government restrictions, eroding the reach of proposed ...
  23 hours ago

• Yep

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  What Digby said.
  1 day ago

• The H8 Continues | Politics as Usual

  
  Hip Hop Is Read — Authority: 546
  By now I’m sure you’ve heard of a proposed bill in Uganda which would authorize the execution of homosexuals. And you thought Prop 8 was bad! Obviously opposed by gay groups, I think that anybody with two brain cells to rub together should be outraged about this legislation that’s actually being taken into ...
  1 day ago

• Damn

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  The teabaggers stoled my idea!!
  1 day ago

• Change

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Joe Bageant: This frustrating ping pong game in which the margin of first-time, disenchanted and undecided voters are batted back and forth has become the whole of American elections. That makes both the Republican and Democratic parties very happy, since it keeps the game down to fighting the enemy they know, each ...
  1 day ago

• What To Watch

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  First of all, I’d like to reiterate that yes, a bill without a public option can serve the same purpose as the public option: namely, to force efficiency and competition. And I don’t buy the insurance company “we won” mantra just yet, because the Medicare buy-in proposal is a real threat to them. After all, ...
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• Alternative Names for the “National Championship” Game

  
  CollegeGameBalls: College Football at its Finest — Authority: 576
  A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine a national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress had more pressing matters on its plate. The bill, which faces long odds of becoming law, would ban the promotion ...
  2 days ago

• Promises, Promises

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Well, yeah.
  2 days ago

• Are Liberals Pathetic?

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Chris Hedges with a provocative essay.
  2 days ago

• Joe Vs. Joe

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  
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• The Teacher’s Union That Stole Christmas

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 678
  -By Warner Todd Huston The Weekly Standard has an excellent new article in its latest issue that reports on the discouraging story of the Washington D.C. teachers union that is rushing headlong toward destroying the successful and popular federally-funded D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The program ...
  2 days ago

• Gonzo

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  See, the only thing wrong with trying to fix cases is that it didn’t work!
  2 days ago

• Poll: Used Car Salesmen More Ethical than Congress

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 553
  According to a new poll , “Congressmen were rated as having a “low/very low” ethical standards by 55 percent of 1,017 adults across the nation.” The same poll found that 45% of 1,017 adults across the nation had either never heard of Congress, or are big believers in grade inflation. The shocking part is ...
  2 days ago

• Fixing A Hole

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  This is one of the reason s why the proposed plan to offer Medicare is a good idea.
  2 days ago

• Why I Miss Boondocks

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Here.
  2 days ago

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