Want Healthcare Reform? Pick Up The Phone.
Yesterday, over 300,000 people picked up the phone and called Congress demanding health care reform this year. The phones ringing off the hook certainly did not go unnoticed by Congress.
Yesterday, over 300,000 people picked up the phone and called Congress demanding health care reform this year. The phones ringing off the hook certainly did not go unnoticed by Congress.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
An amendment offered by Senator Ben Nelson [D-FL] would reportedly lower the health care reform bill's cost by an additional $86 billion without reducing services.
James Boyce | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
With clean energy, as with health care, there is the opposition of a well-funded minority willing to distort, lie, distract and do anything they can to delay action.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Calling for some sort of decorous avoidance of politics during politicians' funerals is downright ridiculous. It'd be like eulogizing Charles Lindbergh and not mentioning airplanes.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.
Politico | Andie Coller | Posted 07.23.2009 | Style
With all due respect, it ain't easy to be duly respectful on Capitol Hill. With regulations that govern everything from hemlines in the Speaker's Lobb...
Lincoln Chafee | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
As a proud Rhode Islander, it troubles me to think we've fallen behind in granting our gay and lesbian family members and friends something as fundamentally important as the right to have their relationships fully recognized.
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 06.01.2009 | Comedy
Build a $1.5-ish billion taxpayer-funded stadium, charge those same taxpayers $2600 to see a game, don't create the promised park for local kids (because they're poor). Now look around. Guess what? You're rich!
Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green
Instead of crisis management, we need to phase-out all wet storage of toxic coal ash, inspect all toxic coal ash storage and disposal units and enact federal regulation of all toxic coal ash storage and disposal.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
Happy New Year 2009! Because I've always felt it is more amusing to make new year's resolutions that others should follow, today's Friday Talking Poin...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
Brian Williams, NBC's talking head extraordinaire, is probably a decent guy, a guy with whom you could sit down and have a beer. [More on the alcohol...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
I'm not worried about whether checks and balances will disappear if Republicans don't have more than 40 seats in the Senate. True checks and balances are more fundamental than party affiliation.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
I have to begin here today by stomping all over a cutesy term the media has come up with for the upcoming economic "summit" George W. Bush is holding ...
The Hill | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Vice President-elect Joe Biden leaves an open chairmanship on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that could end up being filled by one of the mos...
The Chicago Tribune | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
CNBC's Donny Deutsch last night asked Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois if he'd be interested in an appointment to the opening seat of Sen. Barack Ob...
AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After a sometimes thrilling, sometimes bumpy run in the national spotlight, Alaska saw its governor defeated for vice presid...
Pam Atherton | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home
There are quick ways to assess the measure of a man, whether he's a date or a guy running for office. Anybody can put on party manners for the camera, but what is he like underneath the show?
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home
Red and blue state Obama supporters are putting their weight on the see-saw state of Indiana, crossing state lines to help. Political tourists from ot...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
I started blogging over two years ago. That is to say, right about the time the 2008 presidential campaign began. OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration...
Jacob Soboroff | Posted 09.13.2008 | Home
"I think voting on the weekend is a great idea, even though that means standing up to the powerful Tuesday lobby."
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
For all the people who scoffed at the idea of a former comedian running for such a high public office, it can now be strongly stated that Al Franken's Senate campaign is definitely no joke.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home
Don't tell me about how Sen. Obama grew up. His statements demonstrate he doesn't understand small town life or rural voters. Sen. Clinton is the one connecting with us. He could learn from her.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics