This is an actual headline in the New York Times, not from The Onion: As G.O.P. Digs In on Debt Ceiling, Democrats Try Shaming McConnell. I didn’t know The Times hired comedy writers to be copy editors. I almost spit out my coffee this morning to laugh. The first thing that came to mind was … Read more
Axios reports, Scoop: Sinema’s secret spreadsheets: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is negotiating the size and scope of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget plan armed with her own spreadsheets about the costs and tax hikes needed for each program, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. [Maybe she should actually ask her constituents what they want, … Read more
Over the last couple of days I have been annoyed by a cartoonish, totally ineffectual social media meme-styled political ad from a political PAC misleadingly calling itself the Common Sense Leadership Fund. This PAC name was formerly a Leadership PAC affiliated with former Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). The Hill reports, Conservative group targets Kelly, Hassan … Read more
So there was this WTF? report in Newsweek (and elsewhere). The “Grim Reaper of Democracy” is praying that Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema kill Joe Biden’s American Families Plan, which is the $3.5 billion budget reconciliation plan. The Prince of Darkness must be praying to Satan if he wants to inflict more harm on … Read more
In a cruel irony or a sick sense of humor, Congress chose this Labor Day to end most pandemic relief programs, as the country is in the throes of a delta variant “pandemic of the unvaccinated” surge in infections and hospitalizations, resulting in Friday’s below expectations jobs report. Back in July, 26 states ended federal unemployment … Read more