And, somehow, I think the feeling is mutual.

Dick Armey, slightly tipsy sexist, keeps trying to get Chris Matthews to agree with him that the little lady is talking “prattle.” Chris Matthews, having felt the wrath of the fem-bloggers, won’t take the bait.

Maybe you can help me out here. I’ve read the text of the bill (which we’ve handily reprinted here) and I can’t quite find that part.  The way I read the Employee Free Choice Act, workers would have the right to organize themselves by “signed valid authorizations,” which would not affect their right to also have an “election by secret ballot” under the National Labor Relations Act (which you can find here).  Neither mentions anything about “public signature” or “card-check.”

What am I missing?

It seems that the continued push by the Democratic Policy Committee regarding allegations of shoddy electrical work from KBR have finally opened the Pentagon investigative door.  From a DPC press release (PDF): Two U.S. Senators today are requesting a meeting with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the mother of a U.S. soldier who has been informed by an Army investigator that her son’s death by electrocution at his base in Baghdad has been re-classified by the Army from “accidental” to “negligent homicide” by contractor KBR and two of its supervisors….

The good folks at Center For Progressive Reform recently released their report on the issues surrounding Cass Sunstein, Obama’s pick for OIRA – the part of OMB with the power to kill off health, food, enviro, and any other regulation intended to protect us and the living world we depend upon.

Yesterday, the House vote by only 224-199 to move the economic stimulus bill to the floor. The margin was short 24 Blue Dog Democrats, economic know-nothings, who demanded a return to pay-as-you-go budgeting. They’re a distraction from the main issues.

Both Sheldon Whitehouse and Pat Leahy suggest that–even though John Cornyn and others made an inappropriate demand that Holder promise not to prosecute any Bushies–Holder did not make that promise.

But right as that came out, the Moonie Times came out with a Kit Bond interview claiming that Holder had made such promises.

A California appeals court ruled Monday that a Christian school could expel students perceived as gay. California Lutheran High School in Riverside County–part of the extremely fundamental Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod–expelled two 16-year-old girls for having “a bond of intimacy” that was “characteristic of a lesbian relationship.”

The Coleman contest is so bizarre it’d be rejected as a Ben Stiller script.

The Anchor Baby wants the GOP to be the party of Doing Nothing.

Who could have thought we could have more fun than we did yesterday listening to one Republican after another on cable news tell us that Democrats just were not getting with Obama’s spirit of “bipartisanship” and letting them have everything they want in the stimulus bill?