Monthly Archive for February, 2014

: February, 2014

So why is President Obama coming to blue-state CT next week?

The state’s roll out of the Affordable Care Act was the best in the country. Gov. Dan Malloy has become a national figure in the debate over raising the minimum wage, so why, this early in an

Florida restaurant chain adds ‘Obamacare’ surcharge

They say it’s impolite to talk politics at the dinner table, but one Florida restaurant chain is doing just that. Gator’s Dockside, a restaurant chain in Florida, is dealing with the Affordable Care Act by passing on a 1% surcharge on to customers. You can see it right on the bill: According to CNNMoney, a […]

Obama coming to Connecticut to tout minimum wage

President Barack Obama is coming to Connecticut next week as part of his effort to get Congress to increase the federal minimum wage. The White House retweeted Gov. Dannel Malloy on Wednesday and

Filé gumbo: Conn. GOP courts Jindal

Let the gamesmanship begin. The Connecticut GOP has put out not-so-subtle feelers with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal about visiting the Constitution State in the wake of the Republican’s very public

Photo fail: Netanyahu accidentally gives Merkel a ‘Hitler mustache’

Above: In this video-grab, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gesture during a joint press conference after their cabinets held a meeting at the King David hotel in Jerusalem on February 25, 2014. (Getty Images)   There are embarrassing photo-op fails. And then there is this. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel […]

Himes: Egypt “balancing on a knife’s edge’

Egypt, Rep. Jim Himes says, is “balancing on a knife’s edge.”

The Democrat from Greenwich just returned from an official visit to Egypt, Morocco and Chad last week with fellow members of the House Intelligence Committee.

Malloy, Jindal slug it out at White House press conference

After lunching with President Obama and Vice-President Biden, the governors emerged mostly in a harmonious frame of mind _ but Louisiana Republican Bobby Jindal stirred things up when he stood at the “stakeout” outside the briefing room and ripped the Obama administration for trying to raise the federal minimum wage.

Visions of 2000: “Sore loserman”

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy feels your pain, Joe Lieberman. You, too, Samuel Tilden and Al Gore. Connecticut’s top office holder, a Democrat, declared his support Monday for doing away with the electoral

Malloy, Perry spar on gun control

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) clashed with Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-Connecticut) over a hot issue in both states: gun control. In the wake of the Newtown shootings, Malloy has been able to push gun control

No woman president in 2016, Michele Bachmann says

2016 will not be the year for a woman to break the tallest glass ceiling in American politics, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said in a conversation with syndicated columnist Cal Thomas last week. When asked whether Americans are ready to elect a woman to the highest public office held in the nation, Bachman told Thomas: […]