“Ask senators privately what would happen if they all voted their consciences, and you get the same answer over and over: It would pass with votes to spare.”
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healthcare
Nelson is in.
Kind of. Maybe. Unless the final bill is too different. Say, if his Medicaid funding is taken out.
Snowe is out.
For some bizarre reason.
Progressive groups are lining up against the bill. This is why I unsubscribed from moveon.org.
link“This local scandal is the best of the year because it’s both hilarious and heartwarming. It was an open secret mayor of my very conservative town, San Angelo, TX, was gay. Nobody particularly cared, though, because he was the first competent mayor we’d had in several decades.
However, this happy equilibrium was disturbed when he resigned because he wanted to pursue a relationship. With an illegal alien.
Oh, and he phoned in his resignation to the local newspaper from an undisclosed hotel in Mexico. And he resigned only 10 days after winning another landslide victory to send him into his fourth term.
Mr. Lown had been involved in the relationship with the illegal alien for a few months, but decided that he couldn’t take the oath of office when he was knowingly harboring an illegal alien. Instead, he resigned after traveling to Mexico, forcing San Angelo to hold an expensive special election in which only crazy people ran for office.
But the most amazing thing is that the main criticism of the relationship in San Angelo wasn’t that it was between two gay men - it was that the relationship was with an illegal alien and cost the city thousands of dollars. So, in a way, this is great progress: a town in George W. Bush’s home district was able to overcome their hatred of gays and focus on what really counts: hating Mexicans.”
Nomination for TPM’s Golden Dukes (Best Scandal- Local Venue)
linkFranken vs. Thune.
Thune: The Senator from Minnesota had indicated that he thought that this chart was somehow inaccurate or misleading. And I want to point out again, Madame President, that the chart is very accurate.
Their exchange in its full glory here, with some delightful Sherrod Brown thrown in.
link“The science of the issue can get pretty incomprehensible pretty quickly. And the politics are clearly very ugly. Let’s not forget, however, that much of the economics is simple.
It’s an externality, stupid — so price it.”
Carlo Cottarelli, IMF Director of Fiscal Affairs, on climate change.
linkirony:
Travel Impressions, which has a subsidiary for LGBTs (TI Gay & Lesbian Travel), only scores a 88 on the HRC Corporate Equality Index.
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We have nothing to fear from love and commitment.
linkDefeated 38-24
Democrats who voted against:
Joseph Addabbo
Darrel Aubertine
Ruben Diaz
Shirley Huntley
Carl Kruger
Hiram Monserrate
George Onorato
William Stachowski
