By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about what happened in Arizona over the weekend. In case you’ve managed to avoid the news for the past few days, though, Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords (D-Arizona), U.S. District Judge John Roll, and eighteen others were shot by a lone gunman at a “Congress on your Corner” event...
For those of you who know me, I don’t listen to pop music, hip hop/R&B, or anything really mainstream for that matter; I prefer classical music and classic rock, with some very obscure sub-genres thrown in there and whatnot. Therefore, I’m not sure what’s more surprising: me discussing Lady Gaga, or the fact that...
A brief note before jumping into this week’s post: I love writing the longer posts, though they take so much time to do the way I would like to do them that one or two of them a week is about all I could do with the longer ones. Therefore, I will be putting...
Well, this week another big set of primary elections was settled. Other than a few remaining primaries and run-off elections, the field for the 2010 midterm elections is now set. Sorry this post took so long to come out; there are so many different narratives that emerged on Tuesday, both new and ones we’ve...
By now, most of you have probably heard: on Thursday night the Senate passed Wall Street Reform after a debate that had proceeded remarkably smoothly up until the last week or so. In fact, throughout the whole process, not much out of the ordinary for what the people should expect of...
Though it may certainly seem that way, healthcare reform is not the only game in Washington, D.C. this week. While that certainly is big news, and I will be writing a good amount on it this week, there are other things going on. For one, today the Federal Communications Commission presented...
Outrage at Congress’ actions is nothing new, and this year it’s even worse than normal. Let’s face it, between the bitter partisan infighting, the incessant filibusters, and still more earmarks than you can shake a hypothetical line-item veto at, who can blame you for such high displeasure at Congress. If someone...
Last week, we all got a wonderfully explicit view of Republican obstructionism. No, I’m not talking about the marathon seven-hour healthcare summit in which the Republicans repeatedly stuck to their position of starting over rather than offer any constructive ideas for reform. I am talking about Senator Jim Bunning’s (R-KY) lone...
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