Month: August 2009
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Friends, dust off your martini glasses, light up your Lucky Strike, and put the Esquivel on the CD player. Mad Men, season 3, is returning to AMC! If you have to be somewhere else on Sunday at 10:00 p.m., make sure you set your DVR. In the meantime, go play amongst yourselves below the fold:
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Scenes from Hank Johnson’s Health Care Forum
Congressman Hank Johnson’s Health Care forum was a let down for big media – there weren’t too many crazies, the Congressman didn’t provide them with any salacious soundbites (as Grift says “with a speaking tone the equivalent of vocal valium”), and the crowd (inside and outside) were very respectful to each other. The crowd’s calmness…
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Cong. Hank Johnson’s Health Care Town Hall
Here we are at the long awaited Town Hall Meeting! The line wrapped around the lovely campus here under a shaded walkway. Toward the back of the line (where we were until escorted to the front by a namelss friend 😉 there was little drama. A few “Fair Tax” posters and some Reform supporters hanging…
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Where’s Eric?
Whenever a new president is sworn into office, he takes an oath to do the following: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
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Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care “Town Hell”
We’ve all seen the headlines, angry mobs shouting down Congressman at local Town Halls from Florida to St. Louis. One Dem Congressman’s life has been threatened. I’m going to suggest a couple things that might help make these events go a little smoother. Do some research on the local activist groups- a quick search of…
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Noted in passing
The Senate, to no one’s great surprise, voted 68-31 to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. Georgia senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, again to no one’s great surprise, voted against Sotomayor’s confirmation, but maintained a degree of civility about the process. Three Republican senators from Deep South states…