The effort to expand SCHIP, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program that was essentially cancelled last Fall, cost $35 billion a year. That was too expensive.
A real plan to invest in green economic development would cost $3-4 billion a year to start. Colleagues of mine have been laughed at for proposing so much. It’s too [...]
Yikes. A colleague passed me this article from MSNBC.com about tent cities popping up in Reno, Seattle, Fresno, Chattanooga and a number of other major U.S. Cities. This is something that predates the current crisis this week (the economic downturn isn’t moving quite that fast) but is mostly made up of people who have already [...]
NYT:
As Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, put it Friday morning on the ABC program “Good Morning America,” the congressional leaders were told “that we’re literally maybe days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system, with all the implications here at home [...]
Physicians for Human Rights is seriously one of the best, most forward-looking and sharpest advocacy groups out there, but if there was one email subject heading that does NOT need three exclamation points it’s the press briefing invitation I got today:
MATERNAL MORTALITY PRESS BRIEFING TODAY!!!
Yay!!! Er — yikes. Anyway I’m sure it’s a briefing announcing [...]
It’s election Day! In Virginia! Seriously — early voting starts in Virginia today. (It starts in a number of states in the days just following.) Stirling and I are packing up the kids and heading South, assuming identities, establishing residency, voting, destroying evidence, heading back north, re-establishing real identities, voting again. That’s basically the shape [...]
So either John McCain has some early onset or Spain has joined our enemies list and possibly a new axis of evil. (Eat it Belgium!) Assuming the original maverick is totally lucid here, let’s take a minute to review John McCain’s top ten reasons for attacking Spain:
10. 1992 Summer Games: WORST. OLYMPICS. EVER.
9. Tapas.
8. Spanish Government [...]
Yesterday Lady de Rothschild, wife of Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild and a former Hillary Clinton supporter, announced that she would be supporting John McCain.
Rothschild, who’s full name is Sir Lady Lynn Forester Luxembourg de Puddingcup Hufuffpuffing Von Furstenberg vanden Heuvel Bergdorf Goodman Al Qaeda Lou Hensley Bookshelfhead de Rothschild, said that she is [...]
Seriously. Or kind of. He wants to kill the President of Spain but only because he thinks that he’s President of Venezuela or Cuba, maybe, and it’s all the same really, right? It’s probably fine though because he didn’t mean any of it because he has dimentia was a P.O.W. Also when Sarah Palin climbs [...]
Policy schmolicy! Sometimes all you want to hear is a really good zinger.
Yes we can.
Hey team. A few things to do besides work today:
• Is anyone following the most genius voter disenfranchisement tactic ever? Michigan Republicans are planning to use foreclosure lists to block people from voting at the polls. So if you lost your house and maybe you feel like you lost your house because of the Bush [...]
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