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Last night someone stole my new trash can. It’s not a big thing in the greater scheme of things, of course. But the trash can was only two weeks old and had my address on it in stick-on numbers and letters. And it was raccoon-proof, which given we have raccoons, was important. Oh and [...]
According to the near-daily emails i receive from the DNC, DSCC and Obama’s Organizing for America, the crowning achievement of the Obama Administration has been health care reform. According to the Republicans, their raison d’etre and the alleged mandate from the electorate after the November 2010 election is overturning health care reform. Only problem: There is no [...]
Prom night at the Capitol with everyone wearing ribbons in support of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and Republicans and Democrats sitting side-by-side in a show of the most faux bipartisanship in recent memory was more enchanting for the punditry than it was for most Americans who actually listened to what President Obama said in his 61 [...]
A few weeks ago my Democratic committeeman called and invited me to attend a meeting to help elect Joe Sestak and Dan Onorato. I declined, but wished him luck with the candidates he had to work with. “These are pretty awful choices,” I told him. “An anti-choice, anti-gay rights, anti-Philadelphia candidate for governor and a [...]
