Archive: June, 2011
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
Know what really cooks my dogs?
The White House last evening hosted a picnic for Congress with a menu including "Corny Dogs" and chicken and funnel cake and certainly lots more, all at a cost of Lord-knows-what.
For Congress! Congress doesn't get enough to eat? The worst deliberative body on the planet needs a party in an economy where its actions and inactions continue to force citizens to scrimp and save and go without and look for jobs and pay more for health care and get less in paychecks, if they have paychecks?
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
Among the more valuable services for citizens engaged in the political process is a website called FactCheck.org run by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center. It's fully researched, non-partisan and always backed by specific citations.
Let's look at what FactCheck had to say in the wake of Monday night's Republican debate in New Hampshire. Here's the full report. What follows are some highlights:
Our own Rick Santorum stepped in two piles of mushed-up "facts:" He repeated the GOP talking point that Obamacare's Medicare advisory board will result in rationing care to older folks. FactCheck notes the law specifically says the board "shall not include any recommendation to ration health care."
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
(A brief discussion twixt Baer & Baer's editor, a.k.a. BE)
JB: See that GOP debate in no News Hampshire last night?
BE: There was a debate?
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
Get psyched, kids, tonight you get the chance to watch GOP candidates for president attempt to throw strikes and try to hit the Mitt.
Yep, on CNN from 8 to 10, seven of your favorite Republican players pitch their stuff at St. Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire.
For you theological history buffs, St. Anselm was an 11th Century Archbishop of Canterbury best known for his arguments to prove the existence of God.
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
(A brief discussion twixt Baer & Baer's editor, a.k.a. BE)
JB: Get yer checkbook out, boss, the GOP says you can't afford not to.
BE: There isn't much I can afford these days.
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
(A brief discussion twixt Baer & Baer's editor, a.k.a. BE)
JB: Oink, Oink, Oink!
BE: Hey, that's not your usual sound.
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
(A brief discussion twixt Baer & Baer's editor, a.k.a. BE)
BE: I'm so sick of all these budget stories. The state will end the fiscal year with a $500 million surplus. Just take a chunk of that to reduce some of the more egregious cuts in education and social programs and then go home. Everybody should shut up and do it. If this drags on until June 30, I'm gonna shot myself.
JB: How could I go on without you?
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
Right after I watched Congressman Anthony Weiner incinerate his political career yesterday, including any chance of being New York's mayor or a major Washington player, I got a call from William J. Green, conservative Pittsburgh TV commentator and long-time conspiracy theorist.
"It's a left-wing conspiracy," he tells me.
"What is?" I ask, knowing I'll be sorry.
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
(A brief discussion twixt Baer & Baer's editor, a.k.a. BE)
JB: Well, boss, the Harrisburg Patriot-News led its Sunday edition yesterday with this across-the-top-of-the-page headline: "As Corbett pushes sacrifice, where's his?"
BE: I'm guessing it's not a rhetorical question.
John Baer, Daily News Political Columnist
I think it's possible Montco Democratic state Sen. Daylin Leach was pranked or hacked like that New York congressman and his penis picture.
I say this because two readers sent me what appears to be an official Leach invite calling for recipes for a summer cookbook his office is putting together. Here it is.
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CALLING ALL RECIPES!
Submit yours to the "Taste of the 17th" cookbook!
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This summer, my office is putting together a cookbook called "Taste of the 17th", featuring - you guessed it - recipes submitted by residents of the 17th District. I'd like to solicit you for any recipes you'd like to offer, including family specialties passed down from generation to generation, cultural dishes representative of your roots, and even meals you've created on the fly!
Recipes can include appetizers, entrees, desserts and beverages for any meal and can be easy or advanced, quick or time-consuming. Simply send an email to Liz Hood at ehood@pasenate.com or call my King of Prussia office to participate.
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John Baer has been covering politics and government for the Daily News since 1987. The National Journal in 2002 called Baer one of the country's top 10 political journalists outside Washington, saying Baer has, "the ability to take the skin off a politician without making it hurt too much." E-mail John at baerj@phillynews.com.
John is the author of the book "On The Front Lines of Pennsylvania Politics: Twenty-Five Years of Keystone Reporting" (The History Press, 2012). Reach John at baerj@phillynews.com. 
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