Mrs. E and I have road tripped down to St. Louis, MO to visit her family for the holidays so blogging will be light for the next few days. Drinking, however, will not. This morning we woke up to snowfall which is rather unusual for St. Louis so we’re going to enjoy a nice, white Christmas in the Lou. A […]

Historian and syndicated columnist P.M. Carpenter has a new op-ed piece out on CNN’s website called Why right and left won’t cheer Obama“. In it, he attempts to explain the chasm between how President Obama is perceived by those on the left, the right & middle and reality. Here’s how describes how President Obama is seen by those he describes […]

Think Progress reported this past week that the so-called “Shutdown Caucus” expanded to seven members when Representative-elect Steve Womack (R-AR) joined their ranks. Some Republicans, like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, look back at the 1995 government shutdown debacle as a cautionary tale of the practical and political costs of shutting down the federal government. Others view it as a […]

There’s a move afoot to build a skateboard park in Ann Arbor (a2skatepark.org). If you’d like to help, you can vote in Pepsi’s “Refresh Everything contest where the A2 Skatepark is in the running for a $250,000 grant. They are currently in 20th place but that could change. With YOUR help. How? Simply text 104839 to Pepsi (73774) (standard text […]

He doesn’t appear to have any justified objections. He’s just being a dick when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he won’t vote to ratify the START Treaty. Hours earlier, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., dealt a blow to the administration’s hopes for strong bipartisan support, criticizing the treaty’s verification system and expressing concern that the pact would limit U.S. […]

Rachel Maddow weighed in today after the passage of the bill to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. First there was this tweet: Then there was this statement: This is a difficult promise kept. It’s not just a promise that was kept. It was one that was hard to keep, that cost a lot of political capital and a lot of […]

I’ve have some news that I thought I’d share with y’all. First, as I mentioned previously, I have added Google AdSense ads to the blog for which I receive a small sum when they are clicked. While I hate having ads as much you probably hate seeing them, bringing in a little revenue helps me to keep doing this and […]

You’ve probably read Sam Graham-Felsen’s Washington Post op-ed, a friendly fire-filled piece suggesting that Organizing for America (OFA) volunteers have been put on the sidelines by the Obama administration for the past year. I am a Community Organizer (CO) for OFA. Mine is a volunteer position that is the equivalent of the Field Directors during the 2008 Campaign for Change. […]

How cute is this? (from my email): Tea Party Nation, along with our friends at Tea Party Express, FreedomWorks and other “we the people” groups are putting on the National Appropriations Bill Read-in. We need your help. Starting this afternoon at around 6pm, in Washington, we will be reading the Omnibus Appropriations Bill in its entirety. We will be doing […]

How weird have things gotten when, in the same day, I get emails from Firedoglake, the Tea Party Nation and MoveOn.org all asking me to to the same thing: call my member of Congress and demand they vote against the tax deal negotiated between the Republicans and President Obama? I’m going to go with “very” weird. I’m just sayin’… If […]

Remember when Ronald Reagan pulled down the solar panels installed on the White House by Jimmy Carter under the guise of routine maintenance and cleaning and then never put them back up? Well a similar effort may be underway. When she took over as Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi initiated the “Green the Capitol” initiative. Incoming Republicans are eyeing […]