Michael Matthew Bloomer, July 30, 2013, reporting from Charlotte, North Carolina which I mistakenly believed was the state’s capitol. “I would have vetoed [the original House-passed bill,] HB 695 because it was clearly designed...
Media reports often alert us of a Republican effort to “chip away” at abortion rights. That “chip away” metaphor cannot survive the facts, particularly at the state level wherever the GOP controls the legislature and governorship. As the Guttmacher Institute reports cited above reveal, in those
Michael Matthew Bloomer, February 18, 2013 Much of the time South Carolina’s Senator Lindsey Graham reminds me of a grade school pest, someone you want to swat away. Lately his insistence on “Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!”...
Michael Matthew Bloomer, January 3, 2013 Are you surprised?? P.S. Thanks to Scott Raymond (see his tweet below) for the great line I paraphrased in my title: “Michele Bachmann, Repeal Yourself!” Also,...
“Anyone got a match?” Iowa’s Republican Congressloon Steve King’s got plans for the Affordable Care Act. Of course, he can afford the delays this will cause, as a member of Congress he’s got pretty good...
