I’ve been thinking about this reaction piece Josh Marshall wrote at Talking Points Memo over the weekend, focused on the New York Times editorial calling for Alberto Gonzales’s impeachment. Marshall is struck by how unusual the impeachment of a cabinet official is - the only time Marshall knows it’s been done, the official in question […]
A follow-up on filibusters: McClatchy has a nice article and chart detailing the growth of filibusters as a tactic over the last couple of years.
In many ways this is a shoe-on-the-other-foot situation, but what I find interesting is that it seems to me that Republican senators considered to be moderate have been more willing to […]
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo seems annoyed that several news outlets are not calling the all-night session being held in the Senate a filibuster. This isn’t necessarily isolated to TPM - folks at other blogs had been calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to force Senate Republicans to “actually filibuster” various amendments and […]
Wow, the Inquirer must have known I was in a mood to write about voting, because they have an article about a state representative who wants to hold hearings on instituting a vote-by-mail system.
I’ve written before about why I think the current one-day-of-voting plan doesn’t work so well. But I will note that in the […]
There’s a lot of anger in antiwar circles about the supplemental spending bill that came out of the House-Senate conference committee, which appears to strip all timelines and mandated consequences from the bill. It’s being portrayed as a blank check for the president’s war policy
The major thing I’ve been grappling with in this discussion is […]
Now here’s disturbing news, and so soon after our trip to Hershey. The Chocolate Manufacturers Association apparently has a petition before the FDA to redefine chocolate - and the new definition wouldn’t require any of those pesky coca butters or cocoa solids.
Can’t wait to see the revised factory tour that discusses those delicious hydrogenated […]
I was over at the Obama campaign site last night checking of the new Women for Obama initative launched earlier this month with a series of kickoff speeches from Michelle Obama. The first thing you notice about Michelle is that she’s a terrific speaker. Very witty, very engaging, very concise. The second thing […]
I know that I’ve already posted tonight but I fear that this story has been swallowed up by the news cycle and that’s a shame. For anyone out there who missed Kevin Tillman’s absolutely inspiring testimony about the government’s treatment of his brother Pat’s death, here it is again.
That the Tillman family had […]
Milestones in your child’s life, like most of the parenting experience, often come with a mixed bag of emotions. The one our daughter reached this week is no exception.
One one hand, Alex turned five, certainly a milestone birthday in her mind and ours. We celebrated by taking her to Hershey, PA, […]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s blog has YouTube footage of two speeches in favor of a resolution that would give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House. (A 417th representative would also be added in Utah to keep an odd number and, incidentally, partisan balance.) They’re mostly on the dry side, but watch Delegate […]