Monthly Archives: March 2010

Reconciliation at a Glance

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Sunlight Foundation comes through again with another great data exhibit. This time one that demonstrates just how much, how often, and how intensely the Republican party will lie about anything to control the narratives, no matter how evident and easily discoverable are the facts. 

Look at all the red bars (#GOP) moving past 50 votes in the Yea column, each time THEY used this process to "ram through" their vicious, selfish agendas. How dare those democrats use the same process to give all Americans—at least better—access to health care.

It's just shameful that Fox, Beck, Rush and the #GOP have helped lower our bullshit threshold this far, to where a simple dataset could be so telling of the viciousness and shamelessness of the lying being done in this Health Care reform fight to do the right thing.

 

 

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War on Mails: The Postal Service Crisis

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As the US Postal Service will no doubt be this week's target of Right and Left wing noise machines, and assorted partisan nitwittery, and Glenn Beck is sure to attack it as another wing of ACORN, I felt a short reader was called for.

As always, if you have items to add, email me, tweet me, or post as a comment. Before you flame me savagely, the image at right is an actual USPS stamp from the early 1970s. Times have changed. The mail has to. It's time to admit it's not a profit making enterprise, and doesn't have to be run like one.

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U.S. post office looks to cut costs as mail drops
WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Postal Service, faced with a dwindling number of customers and growing shortfalls, plans to raise prices, cut costs and ask for rule changes to make the struggling service more flexible, Postmaster General John Potter said on Tuesday.
 

  • AP Explainer/FAQ  — How did the U.S. Postal Service get in this fix? Covers the basics and the key issues of the current crisis.

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