September 2009 Archives

So Baucus is finally out with his plan, and he's desperately seeking support. It's a much more conservative plan than other Democratic proposals -- no public option, more insurance company giveaways. If it doesn't win over significant Republican support, can we finally give up even the pretense of bipartisanship?

I mean, I'm all for getting Republicans on board a good bill. But it's the good bill that needs to come first. We shouldn't let Republicans hold good policy hostage just because they want to score political points.

Gang of six, still at their dirty tricks. And Clyburn pitches a regional pilot for the public option, which is probably better than a trigger, but still sucks, and badly.

Neil Cavuto is fashioning his show after "America's Most Wanted," desperately searching for the pro-reform yokel who bit off the anti-reform yokel's finger. He's even listing a phone number to call if you have information.

Well, I certainly don't condone eating or biting an appendage on somebody else's body. But I would like to point out how the pinky that got bitten off ended up in the biter's mouth. Apparently, the pinky-losing victim had punched the biter in the mouth, and somehow in the process inserted his pinky into the mouth of the biter.

Now, I'm not saying that I'd have bitten off the pinky (gross!), but if you stick one of your fingers in my mouth, it's not my fault if you don't get it back.

It's been many months since I've updated anything on jedreport.com, but starting today, I'll be back posting on a more regular basis at this site.

If you've been following me at Daily Kos and Daily Kos TV, don't worry -- nothing will change with that. I'll just be adding some posts here to the mix, sometimes expanding on something I wrote on Daily Kos, sometimes just a quick thought or thinking out loud, and sometimes about nothing to do with politics at all.

I'm also going to set up some sort of cross-posting mechanism or widget so that you can access my Daily Kos posts here, but for now, I'm restarting things just using Movable Type's plain vanilla blog layout.

I'm sure I'll quickly fiddle with it and add in some new features, but at least right now, I'm keeping it simple.

By the way, on a personal note, I've moved from Las Vegas to San Diego to live with my girlfriend and our four pets (two dogs and two cats). I don't know how long we'll be here, or where we'll be off to next, but I do know that it's been absurdly hot here lately, and I can't wait for the weather to cool down!