Bucky wrote:Bonus points to someone who can actually tell where the milquetoast/soft personality reference originated

drsmooth wrote:

Werthless wrote:The state of Washington is sending $1 checks to people so that they can qualify for federal assistance.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29311565/

Sending out $1 checks cost the state $250,000. DSHS says that could bring the state and additional $43 million in federal funding.

Call it red tape or a hoop to jump through. Either way, the state says it makes sense.

"I think it's an issue of maximizing the federal regulations to the advantage of Washington residents,” said Ribas.

Nelson says it just sounds like more bureaucracy.

"If there was that much money already there, why not just help distribute that among the recipients rather than doing it this way?” asks Nelson.

Since Nelson doesn’t have a checking account, cashing that $1 check would cost her $5 in fees. The state says, luckily, recipients don’t have to cash or deposit the checks to receive the additional benefits.

Genuine free-market profits-or-bust("well not really bust - maybe we can get a bailout") businesses do incredibly stupid marketing/promotional things all the time with far worse payback than is involved in this little anecdote. You should be cheering the initiative, rather than bashing it. Decently nourished people require less health care than the famished.

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) is clearly not taking the olive branch from NRSC chairman John Cornyn.

In a conference call with Kentucky reporters, Bunning threatened to sue the National Republican Senatorial Committee if they recruit a primary challenge against him and added that he can’t trust anything Cornyn says.

“I don’t believe anything John Cornyn says. I’ve had miscommunications with John Cornyn from, I guess, the first week of this current session of the Senate,” Bunning said, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

“He either doesn’t understand English or he doesn’t understand direct: ‘I’m going to run,’ which I said to him in the cloakroom of our chamber.”

Bunning also argued that he would have grounds for a lawsuit if the committee recruited another primary challenger, saying the committee exists to support Republican incumbents.

“If they recruited someone to run in a primary against me, I would sue them because they are not following their bylaws,” Bunning said.

TenuredVulture wrote:You guys really shouldn't lose Kentucky.