Mike: Well Cynthia, the president has vetoed the Keystone pipeline bill, and there probably won’t be enough votes to override. Are we entering the veto phase of the Obama presidency? Cynthia: Maine families care a lot more about Congress funding the Department of Homeland Security in the face of domestic terrorist threats than they do […]
Cynthia: “I wasn’t 100 percent sober,” Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg said with refreshing candor when asked why she dozed off during President Obama’s State of the Union speech. Plus, she added, because her “pen was hot,” she had worked all through the night before the speech and was sleepy. This is pretty racy stuff coming from […]
Parting is such sweet sorrow when you drop him off at the bus station this cold dark February morning in Maine. Its sweetness is the reminder you are not affixed to each other by children, mortgage or habit alone; its sorrow the many lost opportunities for closeness. A pair of star-cross’d lovers is a polite way to describe your beginning. He was dating someone his mother […]
Mike: So Washington, courtesy of your party, is going to debate how many rounds a magazine should hold. Is there a magic number? Cynthia: The magic number is 44. Thirty Republicans in the House plus 14 in the Senate are needed to join Democrats to pass common-sense gun reform. And who knows? Now that a […]
Cynthia: Rural Republicans surely are feeling snookered, Mike. What’s worse — the governor’s proposed tax on fun or Congressman Poliquin’s surprise vote for Obamacare? Mike: Bruce’s vote was certainly more surprising and, yes, I am sure people are shocked. But — spoiler alert — Barack Obama was going to veto the repeal of his signature […]
Who is this guy? What happened to the Paul LePage the Tea Party loved and the liberals loved to hate? We don’t know yet if Governor LePage is reinventing himself or his street smarts and survival instinct figure the only way his budget bomb will get traction is if he gets people on board who […]
A few quick thoughts on the Governor’s State of the State tonight: 1. The Governor has some more selling to do, and that starts tomorrow. Augusta is tepid about his plan, but he delivers it with passion. That approach won him the Blaine House for a second term and may win him substantial tax reform. […]
