January 2012
2 posts
A Cockroach and a Bazooka
Congratulations to all of you who decided to get involved with your government. You have had a real impact on the legislative process. As I watched my Twitter account explode, I couldn’t help but grin. This is how it’s supposed to work. Thousands of people, not lobbyists or organized special interest groups, began petitioning their government in a way that those who wrote the...
Now this is the right attitude.
This is an excerpt from an interview with Sen Pat Toomey, Republican from Pennsylvania:
“I introduced a bill with Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, she’s a Democrat. She’s up for reelection. She’s considered one of the more vulnerable, incumbent Democrats. She and I happen to agree that we ought to eliminate earmarks, for a variety of reasons. We disagree on a lot of things but we agree on...