DaviSusan Susan Davis
I got in to a cab at the Capitol and my driver says, “Hey, wanna see my Paul Ryan impression?” And starts pretend crying.
If you’re a news editor you’ll want to hear this.
The New York Stock Exchange now claims that you have to get their permission (express or implicit) before you use images connected to the New York Stock Exchange. So if you find a wire photo of the trading floor and use it to illustrate a story on Wall Street, you’re violating the NYSE’s trademark because they’ve trademarked the trading floor itself.
We found this out yesterday when we got a cease and desist letter from the NYSE based on an article published at TPM back in November. You can see the letter here. Read More
John Boehner (R-OH) made his first comments this morning on the GOP loss in New York’s 26th district on Tuesday. Boehner attributed the loss to the third party candidate in the race and a bad campaign by Republican Jane Corwin with a “small part” of the loss “clearly had to do with Medicare.”
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), DCCC Chair, says Medicare has put the House back in play in 2012.
How bad a blow to our culture would a Sarah Palin presidential candidacy be? You only have to look at the cable news yakkers talking about a potential Palin run: Read More
What’s going on on the second to last Space Shuttle flight? Check out this video.
Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) says media claims that 40 Senate Republicans voted to “end” Medicare are a lie. He even singled out TPM on Twitter.
Medicare gets all the attention, for a lot of good reasons. But as TPM Reader KH argues the cuts to Medicaid are no less devastating, though most people don’t figure it will ever directly affect them …
I’m seeing little on what I think is one of the most devastating proposed results of the Ryan budget bill, if it ever was put into law, and one that has the potential to be just as powerful as the “Turn Medicare into a voucher program” part, if and when people ever begin to see what the Medicaid cuts mean. Most middle-income people have no idea the impact of the Medicaid cuts. They assume those have no direct results on them.
Mark Zuckerberg says the public is schizophrenic about its response to Facebook.