Day: February 3, 2009

What's going on – Tuesday News Roundup
ecthompsonmd February 3, 2009

Tuesday Night News Roundup President Obama has chosen Senator Gregg as his nominee for Secretary of Commerce. It is Black history month. Associate professor Melissa Harris Lacewell has a few comments on whether we still need to keep Black history month. In the spirit of bipartisanship which has affected Washington (stop laughing) John McCain has sent out an e-mail petition asking his supporters to sign the petition to stop the stimulus package. Now let’s think this through. In spite of whatever pork barrel projects are still in the economic stimulus package there is spending for infrastructure and extending unemployment benefits. These two things alone

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Daschle is out
ecthompsonmd February 3, 2009

Is there a rule in Washington that you don’t have to pay taxes? I just don’t understand. If I’m an hour late on taxes, I get a letter from the IRS. On my corporate taxes the IRS always seems to want some form to be filled out. If it isn’t, angry letters follow. So how is it that Tom Daschle, who I believe is a good guy and would have done a great job, and Tim Geithner didn’t pay large sums of money? I think that Daschle would have been easily confirmed if there wasn’t already a tax problem with Geithner

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The Errington Thompson Show 1-31-09
ecthompsonmd February 3, 2009

Those of you who listened to my show on Saturday know that I wasn’t in the studio. I was in my bed in a pool of drool. I had been up for about 36 hours. I could do that when I was young, but not now!! 🙂 I did interview Joan McCarter from the Daily Kos on Friday. We talked about the Obama administration, the Eric Holder nomination and Gitmo. Because Joan has an incredible knowledge base, the conversation is a great summary of what Obama has done and what needs to be done. I recorded a short rant prior to

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