Let’s face it, Harry Reid is a horrible poker player. He folds every time before finding out if his opponents were bluffing or not. How do I know this? Simple. Since becoming majority leader in 2007 Harry Reid has faced countless threats of a filibuster and never once has he made the opposition go through […]
Rahm Emanuel has a message for the left: Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Worry About the Left Yeah and eff you too. It’s time for the President to Fire Rahm!
People can keep saying that this isn’t a hand out to insurance companies, but the simple fact that their stocks are sky rocketing tells a totally different story. In this case I will go with the opinion of Wall Street.
Obama’s grass roots organization is starting to really feel the heat on health care reform: On Wednesday morning, Organizing for America, as Obama’s reconstituted campaign organization is now known, e-mailed its list of 13 million Obama supporters asking them to “call your senators now and help us ‘ring in reform.’” The campaign yielded 150,000 calls […]
This is something me and a lot of the opposing factors to the latest HCR bill saw coming the other night when Democrats caved to Lieberman: Nelson’s key points: Asked if he would vote for cloture even if his initiative to restrict abortion were adopted, Nelson flatly said “no.” Nelson not only said a vote […]
Those of us opposing this bill are in the solid majority: Conducted by Research 2000 for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Democracy for America (DFA), the survey finds only 33 percent of likely voters favor a health care bill that does not include a public health insurance option and does not expand Medicare, […]
This notion is at the most a pipe dream and we must take a serious look at the Senate today. There are a few major obstacles that need to be overcome. Can it be included in reconciliation? I have seen a lot of liberals throw out the word like it is some instant magic bullet, […]
Another great quote and something a lot of us on the left have been saying all along: “It’s time for the president to get his hands dirty,” Representative Anthony Weiner, Democrat of New York, said in a statement this week. “Some of us have compromised our compromised compromise. We need the president to stand up […]
If I said that then some on the left would attack me saying I don’t know what’s in the bill, but how about when someone who does know what’s in it makes the statement? “I don’t sleep well,” Mr. Sanders said. “I am struggling with this issue very hard, trying to sort out what is […]
Here’s why the White House will go after Howard Dean but not the actual people who are derailing health care reform: People wondering why the White House does tough, public pushback against Howard Dean but not against the likes of Ben Nelson or Joe Lieberman ought to take a deep breath and consider that Nelson […]