Month: December 2009
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THE WHITE IS A BASE COAT
Either two days (if you count the Poulan Weedeater Bowl) or Nine months, nine days, until kickoff (if you don’t). Go Dogs, Sic’em!
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Healthcare reform passes, freakout continues
The vote was taken and the deed is done: healthcare reform legislation passed the U.S. Senate in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve with every Democratic and independent senator voting for it and every Republican voting against it. No big surprise there. It is also no big surprise that we will continue to hear…
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John Barrow 2009’s 2nd Least Valuable House Democrat
I can hear you saying, “2nd least valuable? Is there a list of these people somewhere?” In fact, yes, there is – Nate Silver has been at it again. Through some complicated math-like stuff I’m glad I don’t have to personally understand, Nate scored reps on ten key votes versus what we should expect given…
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A big bag of stupid
Tom Price, the Republic congressman from Roswell, has become quite the political attack dog since he left the Georgia Senate for the U.S. House. He has reached that point in his political maturity where, if Nancy Pelosi were to make the comment that the sun rises in the east, Price would issue a statement insisting…
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The scandals never stop
A few days before Republican members of the Georgia House caucused to nominate a replacement for the lobbyist-romancing Glenn Richardson as speaker, a Democratic strategist summed up the worst-case scenario for his party: “The worst thing that could happen to Democrats is for Republicans to elect someone honest as speaker,” he said.
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Go, Howie, Go!
David Sirota, Friend of BfD, says: I want to take a moment just to recognize what has been recognized before, but needs to be recognized right here and now one more time: Howard Dean is a genuine hero. In coming out against the Lieberman-gutted health insurance “reform” bill, Dean is leveraging every shred of power…