DAILY GRINDER: Are You In Shutdown Panic Mode, Too?
Today’s the day the federal government shuts down. EVERYBODY PANIC. No, just joking. We imagine it won’t be that bad and, in defense of one of the parties, either Democrats or Republicans as a whole might score brownie points from the public if the shit storm trash party really comes to a halt. It’s just hard to know which party will gain because the polled...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: ‘Empty Suit’
We’re saving the “Haha, this news is some kind of April Fool’s joke” for every other site on the Interwebs today. Everything you’re about to read isn’t a joke. But in full disclosure, some of it’s told in a not-that-serious manner: Today’s the day…SEPTA announces plans for what spokesman Richard Maloney is calling its biggest project “in our...
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On Planned Parenthood – What’s a Casey to do?
If you’re like us, you’ve been solicited by hordes of Planned Parenthood canvassers working the Center City district over the last couple weeks. Should you have stopped to listen, they probably told you Pennsylvania is considered an “anti-choice state,” being that both our senators (and governor) supposedly don’t support a woman’s right to choose....
Continue ReadingMeet Potential Casey Challenger, Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack
We didn’t take that patriot’s patriot Scranton Tea Partier candidate Laureen Cummings too seriously when she said she wanted to challenge Senator Bob Casey, mostly because she’s still crying about “death panels,” which are so 2009. But someone who can sell us a rifle, basketball, dog bed, yoga mat and Power Bar in one trip? Now there’s...
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Fracking Updates: Casey, Greens, Corbett, Gasland
Senator Bob Casey is calling it the FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act. It’s his legislative effort to force all drilling companies that use hydraulic fracturing to disclose the chemicals they put into the ground which break up the earth. The Act would basically put fracking back under the regulation of the U.S. Environmental Protection...
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Interested in Bob Casey’s New Poll Numbers?
It’s a slobberknocker [of apathy]! Quinnipiac brings it this month with the Pennsylvania polls. By a percentage of 44-24, voters shockingly approve of Senator Bob Casey’s four years in office and, not surprisingly, 31 percent of us have no opinion, though we’ve had, oh right, four years to form one! Similar numbers say he deserves another term in office...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: When Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum Feud Over Trivial Garbage, Everyone Wins
Where have we heard this before: Corbett is going through the budget “line by line.” [Tribune Review] McFaddens Bar…spin the wheel…and…wait for it…sex abuse. Keep up all the good work guys! [AP] Conservatives are obsessed with “how conservative” members of congress really are. So, every year they create these ridiculous rating systems based on...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: “Things Happen” – Especially Bob Brady, Chaka Fattah and Mike Fitzpatrick Voting Against the Patriot Act
If you illegally injected silicone into a British woman’s buttocks at a South Philadelphia Hotel Sunday as a means to enhance said buttocks, and the woman you injected was found dead yesterday, police would like a word with you. [Fox] Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader and current funder of the Tea Party, has written a piece for Forbes all about how it’s...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: All About the Money
Senator Bob Casey has $1.3 million in the bank. Will it buy a personality? [WaPo’s The Fix] Corbett’s got $620 thousand cash money on hand. Will it buy a soul? [Morning Call] First District Council candidate Joe Grace is at City Hall this morning – 9:30 am – and will be denouncing Frank DiCicco and his DROP bill. [Some Media Advisory] Then, at 10 am,...
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