You may have noticed one of these photos in my EclectaPhoto D’Jour on the right sidebar. It’s the latest from my oh-so-talented wife, Anne C. Savage. This is a complimentary image that goes with a lemony version from a few months ago. Unlike most photos like this you see, these fruits are not splashing INTO water, they are actually rising […]

Earlier today, 20-something gunman Jared Lee Loughner shot Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head at point blank range She is in critical condition but is expected to survive. Among the six dead from the shooting are a 9 year-old girl and Federal Court judge John Roll. 18 people in total were shot. Judson Phillips of the Tea Party Nation […]

Just wanted to highlight something from my post earlier today where I looked at 17 of the bills submitted by the GOP in the past two days. Six bills to repeal all or parts of the health insurance reform law. One to repeal Wall Street reform. One to lower the wages of minimum wage workers lucky enough to get health […]

[NOTE: Edited to include the name of the sponsor of each bill.] Here’s a snapshot of what we have to look forward to this year from the Republicans. As of this writing, just over 200 bills have been submitted in Congress. Here are some of the most odious ones. H.R. 2 (Eric Cantor)- Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act […]

Yesterday, House Republicans read aloud the Constitution of the United States. Quick run-down on the multiple levels of fail: They read it a few sentences at a time and each reader had to be recognized “I now recognize the Representative from the great state of Ohio” “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Section 12, subpart (a)…[blah, blah, blah]… I yield”. “The gentleman […]

It’s actually getting better. The government is expected to report Friday that businesses stepped up hiring in December, a trend likely to gain momentum in 2011. Economists are predicting that employers added a net total of 145,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate dipped to 9.7 percent. Some are even more optimistic after a private payroll firm estimated […]

Just a quick note to let everyone who ordered an Obama photomosaic poster that they have all new shipped as if yesterday. They should begin arriving in your mailboxes as early as tomorrow depending on how far from Michigan you live. Enjoy! I’m just sayin’…

Great catch by Jonathon Cohn yesterday. The FDA is pulling its approval of a drug called Avastin for use in treating late-stage breast cancer citing an increase in heart failure in patients using it along with other negative side effects. Conservatives are calling it Obamacare death panel rationing. [D]uring the debate over the Affordable Care Act,…conservative critics claimed that the […]

This is AWESOME!. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has invested some money in a Google AdWords campaign using the word “ObamaCare”. As Dangerous Servant points out: What that means is that the administration has invested dollars in a Google AdWords campaign to pay for Healthcare.gov to appear in search results for “obamacare.” It looks like this:. Bigger […]

File this in the “Are you effing kidding me???!” file: Republicans Go ‘Nah, Nah, Nah’ and Ban Word ‘Labor’ from Committee Petty. Petty. Petty. With major issues like jobs and the economy straining for attention, House Republican leaders took a big step to solving the nation’s problems when they boldly acted—drum roll, please—to change the name of the Education and […]

Wow. I didn’t see this coming: Robert Gibbs told White House staffers Wednesday that he is leaving his post as President Obama’s press secretary, ending a two-year tenure that made him the face of the White House as he sparred with reporters and defended administration policies… According to three Democrats with White House knowledge, Gibbs in recent weeks had been […]