A friend sent me an email with the subject line of “Stories I don’t want to read”, with the body of the email containing a recent headline: Landrieu Covets Dorgan’s Gavel The conversation progressed as follows: Me: Better there’s a G than an N. Friend: That also makes me uncomfortable. Switch out the G with …
Read more »I received a letter in the mail from Sen. Byron Dorgan yesterday. Out of all three ND Congressmen, I’m surprised Dorgan replied. He’s not up for re-election, so he’s a free man. He could run naked through the halls of Congress and not worry about it. Whatever the case, this letter was in response to …
Read more »Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the official name of the new healthcare reform bill, which is laughable when considering the last half of the title. The best analogy I can come up with in regards to Congress’s attempt to make certain everyone had health insurance is preserving a glass menagerie by loosening the corners …
Read more »Watching a marching band parade and who should stop by and give me candy? As Mark said, sitting next to me: No candy, no vote!
Read more »I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been completely confused as to what has been going on in Washington D.C. regarding the health care legislation. At some point I lost track of who was voting for what, and what had passed and what had not. So, I turned to my “official (and anonymous) Capitol …
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