Perhaps I am easily amused, but the ongoing feud between Bunning and McConnell (and Cornyn) makes me smile every time Bunning rears his head into Mitch’s airspace. In the latest installment, he takes shots at McConnell’s leadership, and blames him for the GOP’s remarkable collapse in the Senate:

In the case of a badly-researched article by a DC insider, we once again see that utter nonsense can be concocted and then echoed before there’s time to look things up, much less debunk them.

Yesterday, Sen. Chuck Schumer proposed a “compromise” of the “public plan” element that appears to give away the core of what health care reform should be about.

Wouldn’t it be nice if media outlets recognized and identified particular biases and agendas for their interviewees out loud and up front so that people reading or watching would have that information in hand to fully evaluate what is said?

Local banks have built up a whole lot of good will. Good policy isn’t enough. We need that kind of good will.

Now the idea of doing the most good for the most people is pretty basic utilitarianism, but to me, the notion that John Stuart Mill would endorse torture seemed pretty off-base. And on the surface, Lefever’s model seems easy to poke holes in. If a majority benefits from slavery, does that justify slavery?

One of the key votes against “cramdown” in the Senate came, suprisingly, from Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. According to an FEC lobbying report filed by the American Council of Life Insurers, Dorgan’s wife Kimberly worked for them as a lobbyist to defeat the measure during the first quarter of 2009.

Just wanted to point to two tiny details about the “field trip” of the War Council (Addington, Yoo, Haynes, Gonzales, and Rizzo, plus friends) to Gitmo on September 25, 2002.

A review of lobbying reports filed indicates that finance, banking and real estate (FIRE) interests paid over $42 million to lobbyists who worked to defeat mortgage write-down in bankruptcy (cramdown) in the first quarter of 2009, as well as other anti-consumer legislation such as capping credit card interest rates.

Sixty organizations filed lobbying reports for the first quarter of 2009 indicating that they had paid lobbyists to work on the issue

The Fiat-Chrysler deal shows that the pay problem is at the top, not the bottom.