STONE SOUP MUSINGS

Let me rephrase that title: Talk about throwing people under a wheelchair . This comes from an interview with Tea Party favorite Rand Paul in Lexington over the weekend. Paul is running for the U...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/talk-about-throwing-people-under-bus.html

From Thad McCotter's latest newsletter comes this ominous news: > On April 22, 2010, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services > (CMS) released a new analysis of Preside...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/mccotters-slanted-newsletter-on-health.html

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Something tells me Republicans can't keep a straight face when they read those words on the Statue of Lib...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/give-me-your-tired-your-poor.html

When I read Eclectablog's post about ousted Congressman Walberg's town hall meetings focused on repealing the recently passed health care bill, I couldn't help but wonder if Walberg liked Sue Lo...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/recipe-for-scrambled-eggs-republican.html

I've always felt that teabagger candidates and protesters were out of touch with mainstream Americans, but now we have a poll showing just how far off the cliff they've fallen. Or, as this Huff...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/02/valentine-story-republicans-teabaggers.html

First, from the NYT, comes the bad news . > A new ranking of the world’s nations by environmental performance > puts some of the globe’s largest economies far down the ...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/01/good-newsbad-news-on-environmental.html

The Supreme Court just struck down a key campaign-finance restriction that bars corporations from pouring money into political ads, and the ruling divided the court along ideological lines with ...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/01/supreme-court-overturns-corporate.html

Yet another area where the U.S. trails the rest of the world. Via Paul Waldman at TAPPED: > But a new report  > on global broadband shows that the country that invented the > I...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/01/broadband-suffers-from-lack-of-big.html

The teabaggers appear to be playing by the George Bush/Republican playbook. Via Think Progress : > Having previously announced that the National Tea Party Convention > would be clos...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/01/national-tea-party-convention-embraces.html

A new CBS MoneyWatch article confirms what Muskegon Critic pointed out the other day: Increased productivity does not translate into prosperity for average Americans. In fact, MoneyWatch warns...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2010/01/salaries-could-be-squeezed-for-some.html

While Hoekstra runs around trying to profit from the attempted bombing over Detroit and score points with teabagger Republicans, it's important to put this incident into perspective. Via Blue Te...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/12/hoekstra-is-danger-to-your-health-and.html

Here's a Christmas card for all my blogging friends from man's best friend (no, not Joe Lieberman) - and me! May all your Christmas wishes come true.

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas.html

Everyone seems to be trashing the Senate's health reform bill. That's fine, dissent is good, but I don't think we should let it blind us to the positives, such as the enormous good the bill will...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/12/senate-health-bill-provides-enormous.html

LG John Cherry has an op-ed in the Detroit News today that talks about his plan to restore the Michigan Promise Scholarship with a water bottle tax. Go read it, but here's the best part (emphasi...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/12/bottled-water-tax-people-deserve-to-get.html

I am extremely disillusioned with the shape the healthcare bill has taken, but I'm not willing to say it shouldn't pass and/or we should start over. I'll let Kevin Drum speak for me. He makes a c...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/12/dont-give-up-on-health-care-now.html

A new Bloomberg poll shows Americans want the government to do something about the economy. > Americans want their government to create jobs through spending on > public works, in...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/12/poll-let-wealthy-pay-higher-taxes.html

Teabagger Republicans. According to the latest Rasmussen poll, Republicans have fallen to third place in terms of popularity. > In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmusse...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/12/whos-more-popular-than-traditional.html

(Via Fox News Detroit ) A man in Riverview has an unusual Christmas display on his lawn and the neighbors aren't too happy about it. His signs support national health insurance, but the mom next...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/12/all-i-want-for-xmas-is.html

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I wanted to pass along a few shopping tips before heading out to spend the holiday with family and friends. If you're picking up a bottle of wine for your host or gu...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/holiday-shopping-tips-for-progressives.html

The Republican Party is staking its future on people like Sarah Palin for commonsense solutions to our nation's problems. Meanwhile, Democrats don't have to look any further than Sen. Carl Levin...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/sen-carl-levin-is-real-deal.html

Robert Reich has an article on the disconnect between stocks and jobs that asks a great question: How can the stock market hit new highs at the same time unemployment is hitting new highs? > ...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/stock-market-is-up-id-rather-have-job.html

Thank you for respecting a woman's right to choose, Congressman Schauer, and for also having the courage to say what many women think - "The government doesn't belong in the room when these very...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-care-reform-keep-it-separate.html

Regardless of Republican gloating, I'm not reading too much into yesterday's election. They picked up a couple of governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, but Democrats picked up two seats in Co...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-care-and-gay-rights-helped-by.html

In this FDL Action Health Care Update , I read that Bart Stupak is threatening to block the House health care bill from passing over the issue of tax dollars for abortion. He wants to vote his c...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-care-bill-is-pro-life-issue-too.html

Kudos to the Country Fresh Dairy in Grand Rapids for respecting the hard work of their employees. > On October 3, Local 386 members employed at Country Fresh Dairy in > Grand Ra...

http://stonesoupmusings.blogspot.com/2009/10/good-corp-bad-corp.html