As you probably know, a group that I have dubbed The Infamous 53 , recently sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposing freedom for all Americans to travel to Cuba. Transcripts of the letter were available on the Internet. What was not ready available was the actual names of the 53. An alert reader of Cuba Journal sent to me a PDF file link with the text and the signatures and the names of the 53....
To be kind, Obama's DNC head, Tim Kaine, isn't exactly from the Howard Dean mold and doesn't quite represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. Generally speaking, the outgoing governor of Virginia represents the Establishment or, in Paul Krugman's words about his kind of Democrats, "corporate tools, defending special interests." What he has in common with Dean, though, is that...
I don't know about you, but I've had it with "BlueDog" Democrats. They claim to be "fiscal conservatives," but they voted for George Bush's trillion-dollar tax cuts for the rich, which turned President Clinton's $6 trillion projected surplus into Bush's $5 trillion added debt . They voted for Bush's trillion-dollar invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and spend billions more every...
Rep. John Barrow (D-GA) explains his vote against ObamaCare:Late Saturday night, the House of Representatives voted on H.R. 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act." Health care reform is one of the most critical issues facing this nation right...
Aaron Blake seems like a decent enough writer at The Hill but sometimes... I just get the idea those headlines come right from the RNC communications department. Like yesterday's: Few Dems In Big Races Jump Headlong Into Backing Health Bill . Unless he meant "Few Blue Dogs," he sure has that wrong, wrong, wrong. The suicidal Blue Dogs and fellow travelers (like Artur Davis, the cowardly conservative...
Wednesday we published a letter that the Bullock County Democrats sent to Rep. John Barrow, warning him not to take their support for granted. It ended with this paragraph: Mr. Barrow, we have supported you throughout your time in the House. Even in the cases where we did not agree with your voting record, we stood firm and said John Barrow is our guy and we will back him. However, now our concern...
Yesterday Regina Thomas made it official and is now campaigning for the Democratic nomination against reactionary Blue Dog John Barrow. For many in GA-12,...
Yesterday Regina Thomas made it official and is now campaigning for the Democratic nomination against reactionary Blue Dog John Barrow. For many in GA-12, his dual votes against Choice and against health care reform were the last straw. Jim Morekis at Connect Savannah summed up on the ground: he's in trouble ; Republicans won't reward him for voting the Republican line and Democrats are looking to...
Like most British people, hell like most Europeans, I've got many relatives who served in the First World War. The sad thing is that I didn't know about any of them until this year when I spent some time trying to flesh out my family tree. So here is my small memorial to my three (known) relatives who didn't come home from the Western Front. Whilst Leonard and William were previously known by those...
Two Georgia Democratic Representatives, John Barrow (District 12) and Jim Marshall (District 8) voted “nay” on the historical Health-care Reform legislation last Saturday in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill eventu...
I was wondering whether or not news behind this weekend's vote on health care reform in the House of Representatives would lead to an early Chutzpah of the Week award. The good news is that I was right: It was pretty easy for find grounds for the award. The bad news, as one might guess from what actually came out of the House, is that this is an award for the negative connotation of chutzpah . Even...
The New York Times has an excellent graphic up today profiling the 39 Democrats who voted against healthcare reform in the House of Representatives on Saturday night. The Times notes that 31 of these Democrats represent districts won by John McCain, as if that's a sufficient excuse. But take a closer look at the numbers. Paradoxically, those Democrats voting against healthcare reform represent constituents...
DOWNLOADS: (107) PLAYS: (221) (h/t CSPANjunkie ) Donna Edwards tells her story of being a young mother without health insurance and how she is paying America back with her vote for health care reform. Edwards: I collapsed and was taken to an emergency room. Without health care I was treated as one of those uncompensated and now it's time for me to pay the American people back with a vote for comprehensive...
Two different progressive approaches I got a lovely personalized e-mail from MoveOn.org yesterday thanking me for having a little something to do with the health care victory Saturday night. (My congressmember, Diane Watson-- who I love for her prefect voting record and wonderful leadership role among progressives, but who has never responded to a phone call from me-- voted for the bill. If not her,...
Thank you to Rep. Jim Marshall and Rep. John Barrow for voting against ObamaCare on Saturday and taking a stand against their party's leadership. Marshall is my representative in Congress. He does not always vote the way I would like,...
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