• About
  • The Poetry of Protest

Show Me Progress

~ covering government and politics in Missouri – since 2007

Show Me Progress

Monthly Archives: November 2016

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,366,367. Still not a “mandate”.

30 Wednesday Nov 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ 10 Comments

Tags

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, popular vote

The margin continues to increase.

Compiled by David Wasserman, Cook Political Report:

bersin113016

Michael Bersin ‏@MBersin
The latest National Popular Vote (to date) – Hillary Clinton (D) 64,902,259 – Donald Trump (r) 62,535,892 – margin for Hillary + 2,366,367
7:30 AM – 30 Nov 2016

Well, Mitt?

Previously:

Still counting (November 21, 2016)

Still counting – losing the popular vote by 2,017,563 ain’t a “mandate” (November 23, 2016)

Still counting – losing the popular vote by 2,103,941 is still not a “mandate” (November 24, 2016)

Still counting – losing the popular vote by 2,126,705 isn’t even close to a “mandate” (November 25, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,228,232. Nope, still not a “mandate”. (November 26, 2016)

62,409,389 (46.5%) of your fellow Americans (to date) voted for this moron (November 27, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,235,653. Still not a “mandate”. Trump is still delusional. (November 27, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,243,231. What color is the sky in their world? (November 28, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,358,925 (November 30, 2016)

Medical research or Big Pharma: Guess which Billy Long loves the most

30 Wednesday Nov 2016

Posted by willykay in Uncategorized

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

21st Century Cures Act, Big Pharma, Billy Long, Elizabeth Warren, FDA, Medical device makers

Rep. Billy Long (R-7) is excited about the possibility that Congress will pass the 21st Century Cures Act by the end of this session, and he wants his constituents to know that he cosponsored the bill. Unfortunately, even though Billy seems to think that his support for this bill is a big deal that will will help wipe disease off the map, I’m afraid that, along with some funding for medical research, it contains poison pills in the way of corporate giveaways that may be too big to swallow.

The bill does spend some money on limited types of medical research, and, no matter how inadequate, these days the situation is so dire that more is always good. But not when it comes at the cost of loosening important safety regulations, essentially giving the regulatory store away to pharmaceutical firms and medical device makers in order to solve problems that – guess what? – don’t really exist. Contributors to Health Affairs Blog, a Project Hope affiliated publication which “features posts from noted health policy experts and commentators from a wide variety of perspectives,” summarizes the problems with the bill:

Proponents of the proposed legislation—drug and device companies, and members of both parties in the House and Senate—argue that the FDA stifles innovation and advances in treatment by approving drugs and devices too slowly compared to other countries.

That premise is faulty. Nearly two-thirds of the novel drugs approved in 2015, for example—29 of 45, 64 percent — were approved in the United States before being approved in any other country. The proportion was even higher in 2012 and 2013. The majority of these drugs (60 percent) took advantage of existing FDA expedited review programs—fast track, breakthrough, priority review, and accelerated approval—and nearly half (47 percent) were approved to treat rare or orphan diseases.

As for devices, research shows that “it takes the same amount of time or less for patients to gain access to innovative, high-risk medical devices” in the U.S. as compared to Germany, France, Italy, and Britain.

The House and Senate bills ignore the above facts. They essentially seek to speed-up the approval process by relaxing FDA’s safety and effectiveness standards. And to make that more palatable, sponsors have attached the changes to increases in funding for the National Institutes of Health and the FDA.

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) leveled a powerful attack on the paltry and likely ephemeral increase in research funding that is on offer:

For more than two years, Congress has been working on legislation to help advance medical innovation in the United States. Medical innovation is powerfully important, and I have spent as much time working it as any other issue during my time in the Senate.

From the beginning, I have emphasized one obvious fact. Medical breakthroughs come from increasing investments in basic research. Right now, Congress is choking off investments in the NIH. Adjusted for inflation, federal spending on medical research over the past dozen years has been cut by 20%. Those cuts take the legs out from under future medical innovation in America. We can name a piece of legislation the “cures” bill, but if it doesn’t include meaningful funding for the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, it won’t cure anything.

That’s why months ago Senate Democrats said any so-called “cures” legislation must have a significant investment in medical research. And that’s why Senate Republicans publicly committed to doing exactly that. But now they have reneged on that promise and let Big Pharma hijack the Cures bill. This final deal has only a tiny fig leaf of funding, for NIH and for the opioid crisis.

And most of that fig leaf isn’t even real. Most of the money won’t really be there unless future Congresses passes future bills in future years to spend those dollars. …

Just in case, she hadn’t made her position clear, Warren added:

I support most of these proposals. I’ve worked on many of them for years. I even wrote several of them myself. If this bill becomes law, there is no question it will contain some real legislative accomplishments.

But I cannot vote for this bill. I will fight it because I know the difference between compromise and extortion.

Compromise is putting together common-sense health proposals supported by Democrats, by Republicans, and by most of the American people, and passing them into law. Extortion is holding those exact same proposals hostage unless everyone agrees to special favors for campaign donors and giveaways to the richest drug companies in the world.

Somehow, Billy Long neglected to tell us about the real focus of the bill; he wants us to believe that a poorly funded bill based on Big Pharma’s and medical device makers’ wish-list “could save millions of lives.”

When it comes down to it, if the choice is between Ozark Billy and Elizabeth Warren, I know who I believe.

 

Campaign Finance: and so it ends or begins before it begins – part 5

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

campaign finance, Eric Greitens, governor, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission

Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 or 2020 [?] gubernatorial or whatever campaign:

C151053 11/29/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI J H Berra Holding Co., Inc. 5091 Baumgartner Road St Louis MO 63129 11/27/2016 $25,000.00

C151053 11/29/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI McBride & Son Management Co. 16091 Swingley Ridge Road Suite 300 Chesterfield MO 63017 11/27/2016 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

Wow, if enough people contribute they could throw a party in January.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: and so it ends or begins before it begins (November 20, 2016)

Campaign Finance: and so it ends or begins before it begins – part 2 (November 21, 2016)

Campaign Finance: and so it ends or begins before it begins – part 3 (November 23, 2016)

Campaign Finance: and so it ends or begins before it begins – part 4 (November 28, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,358,925

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ 11 Comments

Tags

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, popular vote

The margin continues to increase.

Compiled by David Wasserman, Cook Political Report:

bersin112916

Michael Bersin ‏@MBersin
National Popular Vote (to date) – Hillary Clinton (D) 64,855,908 – Donald Trump (r) 62,496,983 – margin for Hillary + 2,358,925
5:00 PM – 29 Nov 2016

So much for “populism”, eh?

Previously.

Still counting (November 21, 2016)

Still counting – losing the popular vote by 2,017,563 ain’t a “mandate” (November 23, 2016)

Still counting – losing the popular vote by 2,103,941 is still not a “mandate” (November 24, 2016)

Still counting – losing the popular vote by 2,126,705 isn’t even close to a “mandate” (November 25, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,228,232. Nope, still not a “mandate”. (November 26, 2016)

62,409,389 (46.5%) of your fellow Americans (to date) voted for this moron (November 27, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,235,653. Still not a “mandate”. Trump is still delusional. (November 27, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,243,231. What color is the sky in their world? (November 28, 2016)

Sen. Rob Schaaf kinda, sorta wants partial public financing of elections

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by willykay in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

campaign finance reform, corruption, missouri, Public funding of elections, republicans, Rob Schaaf

Tn a column in Sunday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch State Senator Rob Schaaf writes about his soon to be introduced Senate Bill 1: The Taxation With Representation Act. (Get it? “with” representation. Cute, Huh?) He seems to believe that because Eric Greitens and Donald Trump managed to get themselves elected while dropping a few comments about cleaning up ethical “swamps,” now is the time to do something to stop big money from cracking the whip in Jefferson City:

This Election Day, we Missourians voted overwhelmingly against pay-to-play politics and in favor of anti-corruption reform. We reinstated contribution limits at the state level, elected a governor committed to fighting corruption in Jefferson City, and chose a president who ran against the status quo, promising he would return government to the people.

All I can do is shake my head sadly and look away. Poor naif. Schaaf think we elected a governor “committed to fighting corruption,” whereas, from where I sit, we elected a governor who allowed dark money interests to buy him the governorship – which, I assume, is the reason he opposes limits on campaign contributions, and likely part of the reason he’s been so eager to put his signature on a right-to-work bill lots of the big money types really want. And while the president-elect did run “against the status quo,” the particular status quo he opposes doesn’t seem to have had anything to do with corruption if we are to judge by his personal conflicts of interest, or his emerging plans to engineer one of the biggest corporate giveaways in U.S. history by privatizing just about everything from Medicare and Education to highways and bridges.

Somebody ought to tell Schaaf that it might not be the best time for campaign finance reform after all.

Nevertheless, Schaaf should still get some credit for proposing to redirect public tax revenue to partially fund political campaigns – not a position with which your garden variety GOPer is often very comfortable. The bill would allow Missourians to “subtract up to $100 per year from their state income taxes, letting them claim a dollar-per-dollar credit for donations to county-level party committees and to candidates for state representative, state senator and statewide office.” Well and good. Almost anything is better than the status quo in Missouri where many public office holders seem to be up for sale to the highest bidder. Schaaf’s may be a back-door approach to public funding, but any movement in that direction has some potential, no matter how small, to dilute the influence of wealthy special interests.

And Schaaf might just get some GOP support for this plan since it does not mandate any effort to allocate public funds equitably or based on some special criteria, but instead allows public tax revenue to be redirected in a partisan fashion – and right now, given the sun-blistered shade of the state’s politics, that could be a plus for GOPers. Whether or not underwriting public spending in a lopsided partisan way is a real reform is, of course, another question.

Schaaf claims several advantages to this system of funding: (1) it would encourage both candidates and parties (via the option to contribute to political committees) to be more responsive to “everyday citizens” as opposed to the big donors who have dominated Missouri political funding over the past few years. (2) He asserts that the bill would encourage engagement in the political process and empower individuals who feel sidelined by the influence of big money. He envisions his everyday donors evolving into mini “bundlers,” who solicit “friends, family and neighbors” to donate – which is not universally regarded as a good thing.

Schaaf also tells us that “such a system has worked in other states. However, while it is true that there are four states , Ohio, Virginia, Arkansas, and Oregon, that currently offer a similar tax credit, the evidence that it has widened political participation and lessened the influence of big money donors is not readily evident.

Oregon, for example, offers a loosely applied tax credit of up to $100 for households. According to PolitiFact Oregon, as of 2013, “the credit gets claimed most often during presidential election years, according to the Secretary of State’s office, but even at it’s [sic] peak, only about 7.8 percent of filers took advantage.”

Nor is Oregon exceptional in this instance. In Ohio the credit has been available for the last 26 years, but few Ohioans are aware of it. Among those who do know about the credit, “only 14 percent of donors said it was a factor in their decision to donate and only 5 percent of those who did not contribute said they would have been very likely to give if they had known about the credit.” Efforts to publicize the tax credits in Ohio have been shown to increase their use by a small percentage, it did so at a disproportionate cost.

The experience of Hilliary Clinton’s Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Kaine, the former governor of Virginia, makes it clear that the Virginia tax credit does little to rein in the influence of big donors. In the 2012 cycle he raised $18,000,000 for his senate bid, with only 17% coming from small donors who contributed $200 or less, but “28 percent of his $18 million came from 1 percent of the 1 percent, a subgroup of America’s most elite political givers.” If you look at political spending in each of the other four states, I think you will find that the imbalance between large and small donors persists and that the preferences of the former often set the governing agenda.

If Schaaf is really serious about evening the political playing field for big and small donors, there are lots of other, better approaches. According to the information on the Website of the National Conference of State Legislators, there are two main systems of public financing in use over thirteen states, clean elections programs, or matching funds programs, . Both of these types of public financing collect money which is disbursed to candidates who must meet requirements such as agreeing to limit total expenditures to agreed upon limits, and/or demonstrating their viability by either collecting signatures from potential supporters or meeting a specified fund raising threshold. Public funds are also often restricted to candidates for specific offices and only four states allow money to be disbursed to political parties to help with organizing activities.

The League of Women Voters notes that the experience of jurisdictions that have evolved systems of public funding over time shows that the following elements are likely to produce the best results: a customized system for small- donor fund matching; eligibility criteria for receiving funds; voluntary expenditure limits; accurate and timely disclosure requirements. And, of course, we all know in our secret heart of hearts that there’s no real political spending reform without limits on giving that cut down the volume of the free-speech megaphone that wealth gives to some donors in these sad, money-is-speech days.*

But don’t hold your breath waiting for any of these requirements to be incorporated into Schaaf’s bill – if it even makes it to the floor where the GOP bottom-feeders will poke and prod it into a shape more to their liking, just as they have done with most of the half-hearted ethics reform bills introduced over the past couple of years. As a matter of fact, as Schaaf’s new president, that enemy of the status quo, gets going, look for him to make sure that he puts all the people in place to ensure that he meets the GOP campaign platform promise to do away with all campaign finance laws.

Which leaves us with poor Rob Schaaf, a Republican pol in the wrong place at the wrong time.

*Addenda: Of course, Missourians did vote for limits on campaign donations, but enforcement protocols or lack thereof remains important question for the future; also the current scuttlebutt is that the money will just go “dark.” The problem goes deep.

Trump advocates criminalizing flag disposal

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Donald Trump.social media, Fascism, flag, Twitter

“…A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man’s comfort and inspiration is another’s jest and scorn…”

“…Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard…”

4 U.S. Code § 8

….(k)The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
(Added Pub. L. 105–225, § 2(a), Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1497.)

319 U.S. 624 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (No. 591) [1943]

….Symbols of State often convey political ideas, just as religious symbols come to convey theological ones. Associated with many of these symbols are appropriate gestures of acceptance or respect: a salute, a bowed or bared head, a bended knee. A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man’s comfort and inspiration is another’s jest and scorn….

….It is now a commonplace that censorship or suppression of expression of opinion is tolerated by our Constitution only when the expression presents a clear and present danger of action of a kind the State is empowered to prevent and punish. It would seem that involuntary affirmation could be commanded only on even more immediate and urgent grounds than silence. But here, the power of compulsion is invoked without any allegation that remaining passive during a flag salute ritual creates a clear and present danger that would justify an effort even to muffle expression. To sustain the compulsory flag salute, we are required to say that a Bill of Rights which guards the individual’s right to speak his own mind left it open to public authorities to compel him to utter what is not in his mind….

….Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good, as well as by evil, men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon, but, at other times and places, the ends have been racial or territorial security, support of a dynasty or regime, and particular plans for saving souls. As first and moderate methods to attain unity have failed, those bent on its accomplishment must resort to an ever-increasing severity. As governmental pressure toward unity becomes greater, so strife becomes more bitter as to whose unity it shall be. Probably no deeper division of our people could proceed from any provocation than from finding it necessary to choose what doctrine and whose program public educational officials shall compel youth to unite in embracing. Ultimate futility of such attempts to compel coherence is the lesson of every such effort from the Roman drive to stamp out Christianity as a disturber of its pagan unity, the Inquisition, as a means to religious and dynastic unity, the Siberian exiles as a means to Russian unity, down to the fast failing efforts of our present totalitarian enemies. Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard….

In a time of war, no less.

Via Twitter, this morning:

trump112916

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
5:55 AM – 29 Nov 2016

He’s not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, is he?

Fascist.

Campaign Finance: and so it ends or begins before it begins – part 4

28 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

≈ 5 Comments

Tags

campaign finance, Eric Greitens, governor, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission

As if anyone else is paying attention?

Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 or 2020 [?] gubernatorial or whatever campaign:

C151053 11/28/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Kansas City Power & Light PO Box 418679 Kansas City MO 64141 11/26/2016 $25,000.00

C151053 11/28/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Southeast Holdings, LLC PO Box 639 Dexter MO 63841 11/26/2016 $10,000.00

C151053 11/28/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Missouri REALTORS PAC, Inc. PO Box 30635 Columbia MO 65205 11/26/2016 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

Do you wonder if there are republican politicians across America right now who are ever so thankful that Donald Trump can’t control his Twitter addiction?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: and so it ends or begins before it begins (November 20, 2016)

Campaign Finance: and so it ends or begins before it begins – part 2 (November 21, 2016)

Campaign Finance: and so it ends or begins before it begins – part 3 (November 23, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,243,231. What color is the sky in their world?

28 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ 12 Comments

Tags

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, popular vote, president

Just asking.

The margin continues to increase.

Compiled by David Wasserman, Cook Political Report:

bersin112816vote

Michael Bersin @MBersin
National Popular Vote (to date) – Hillary Clinton (D) 64,680,345 – Donald Trump (r) 62,437,114 – margin for Hillary + 2,243,231
3:57 PM – 28 Nov 2016

Hey, Kellyanne, what do you think?:

kellyanneconway112816

Kellyanne Conway ‏@KellyannePolls
Kellyanne Conway Retweeted CNN Politics
306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic.
[….]
2:35 PM – 28 Nov 2016

Right. Getting one out of three apparently means more to republican hacks.

There goes your “mandate”. Heh.

Previously:

Still counting (November 21, 2016)

Still counting – losing the popular vote by 2,017,563 ain’t a “mandate” (November 23, 2016)

Still counting – losing the popular vote by 2,103,941 is still not a “mandate” (November 24, 2016)

Still counting – losing the popular vote by 2,126,705 isn’t even close to a “mandate” (November 25, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,228,232. Nope, still not a “mandate”. (November 26, 2016)

62,409,389 (46.5%) of your fellow Americans (to date) voted for this moron (November 27, 2016)

Still counting – Trump losing the popular vote by 2,235,653. Still not a “mandate”. Trump is still delusional. (November 27, 2016)

After the rain…

28 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

missouri, sky

Midday today in west central Missouri:

20161128-img_3974-pano

Our failed media experiment

28 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Chuck Todd, Donald Trump, media criticism, social media, Twitter

Now he tells everyone:

chucktodd112816

Chuck Todd ‏@chucktodd
Trump presidency in a nutshell? aides go rogue, principle on unhinged/unsubstantiated rant. Both give cover to bigger story (biz conflicts)
6:22 AM – 28 Nov 2016

My response, as if it will do any good:

bersin112816

Michael Bersin ‏@MBersin
@chucktodd Gee, this is only news now, after the election?
10:02 AM – 28 Nov 2016

We’re doomed.

Update:

Again, now he tells us.

chucktodd112816b

Chuck Todd ‏@chucktodd
We are all witnessing a slow motion train wreck. Sadly, these proverbial wrecks are likely to happen on a weekly basis.
8:49 AM – 28 Nov 2016

We’re doomed.

← Older posts

Subscribe

  • Entries (RSS)
  • Comments (RSS)

Archives

  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007

Categories

  • campaign finance
  • Claire McCaskill
  • Congress
  • Democratic Party News
  • Eric Schmitt
  • Healthcare
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Interview
  • Jason Smith
  • Josh Hawley
  • Mark Alford
  • media criticism
  • meta
  • Missouri General Assembly
  • Missouri Governor
  • Missouri House
  • Missouri Senate
  • Resist
  • Roy Blunt
  • social media
  • Standing Rock
  • Town Hall
  • Uncategorized
  • US Senate

Meta

  • Log in

Blogroll

  • Balloon Juice
  • Crooks and Liars
  • Digby
  • I Spy With My Little Eye
  • Lawyers, Guns, and Money
  • No More Mister Nice Blog
  • The Great Orange Satan
  • Washington Monthly
  • Yael Abouhalkah

Donate to Show Me Progress via PayPal

Your modest support helps keep the lights on. Click on the button:

Blog Stats

  • 776,543 hits

Powered by WordPress.com.

 

Loading Comments...