The US Hockey Men’s Olympic hockey team upset Team Canada on Sunday. Here’s a most-perfect response from one Canuckian: [From Askmen.com] Heh, heh. I’m just sayin’…

The Senate has passed the jobs bill that made its way painfully through Congress these past few weeks. From the Associated Press: The Senate has passed a bill aimed at boosting job growth by giving tax breaks to businesses that hire the unemployed. The jobs legislation would also extend highway and mass transit programs through the end of the year […]

This morning, the White House offered to put the GOP’s health insurance reform plan online alongside their own plan in preparation for Thursday’s bipartisan summit. Problem is: there isn’t one. Via Dan Pfeiffer at the White House blog: What you can’t do just yet is read about the Republicans’ consensus plan – because so far they haven’t announced what proposal […]

As I have talked about here before, I’m keenly watching the Republican contenders for MI-07. One of the top two candidates likely to win the Republican primary already held the seat for one-term: Tim Walberg. This week he released a statement that said this: One Year after the Stimulus Package: Higher Unemployment in U.S., Taxpayer Dollars Creating Jobs Overseas The […]

My good buddy Lynne. In from New York. I’m just sayin’…

He can’t be all four. Nicked from the most-awesome Adam Thinks blog. Buy it as a t-shirt HERE. I’m just sayin’…

At the 5th annual Univ. of Michigan College Democrats Pancake Breakfast this morning, U.S. Representative John Dingell (MI-15) made this awesome announcement: I intend to continue to be on the forefront of these issues. So, my dear friends, I’m going to file again! Great news for Michigan. Great news for those interested in comprehensive health care reform. And great news […]

On February 18, 2010, Organizing for America (OFA), Health Care for American NOW! (HCAN) and no less than THIRTY other organizations sponsored a CALL FOR ACTION rally in Madison Heights in southeastern Michigan calling for Congress to act now on jobs for Michigan. These sponsoring groups represent a broad coalition of interests including health care reform, peace, immigration reform, clean […]

Yup, the ole stimulus package is an utter failure. Just look at how it’s failing in Michigan: Washington — A light rail plan along Woodward to connect downtown Detroit with the New Center area will get a $25 million infusion of federal money, officials briefed on the matter told The Detroit News. The federal funds — to be announced today […]

I’ll tell you what. You have got to take a firm…FIRM!…stand on the issue of … well … this: I will make it a priority to ensure transgender individuals will not be allowed to change the sex on their driver’s license in any circumstance. That’s Paul Scott, candidate for Secretary of State in Michigan. Trying to get the GOP nomination. […]

To say that this has been a banner three days for Eclectablog would be an understatement. Since I posted my entry on Rachel Maddow on Sunday afternoon, this blog has had 6,883 hits. That’s a bit more than a quarter of all the traffic it’s gotten since I started it in July 2008. Nearly half of the traffic this blog […]