Yesterday I posted about our weak kneed leaders in Congress. Today they seem set on proving my point: With a potentially bruising election less than six weeks away, Democrats on Capitol Hill came to an impasse Thursday over what to do about the Bush tax cuts. The result was a decision to do nothing, at […]
Make no mistake about it. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the GOP slowly implode since the 2008 elections. Sure they have had what appears to be little upticks, but overall they have been suffering a very slow and painful death. But there is a danger in all that and we are now seeing it. Today […]
Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) is now the guilty party when it comes to the mystery of who shouted “baby killer” on the House floor during Bart Stupak’s speech. “Last night was the climax of weeks and months of debate on a health care bill that my constituents fear and do not support,” Neugebauer said in […]
Rep. Parker Griffith (D-AL-5) is expected to announce today that he is switching from Democrat to Republican: According to a senior GOP aide familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place in this afternoon in his home district in northern Alabama. Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care […]
Things are looking more and more uncertain on the House side when it comes to the new health care bill coming out of the senate. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.), the co-chairs of the 190 member strong abortion rights caucus are question the Constitutionality of the new anti-abortion language: As the […]
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 […]
Greg Sargent has found out something very interesting: The House GOP leadership hopes to force Dems into an awkward vote on the plan to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York, a leadership aide tells me. The idea: If the House Dem leadership brings a big scheduled appropriations bill up for a vote this week, […]
That is the new meme emerging following the two gubernatorial losses last night for Democrats. I seemed to have missed it where Obama was on the ballot, but that’s what all the talking heads want us to think. Let’s take a look at Creigh Deeds and the Virginia race. Actually have a look at Think […]
There has been a lot of talk about the new WaPo/ABC poll that finds 57% of the respondents want the public option, with 51% saying go for it without Republican support. Another interesting number in this new poll is 20%. That’s how many people now identify themselves as Republican. The numbers are very dire for […]
On Monday I floated the idea that the mixed messages from the White House with regards to the public option could have been more or less planned. Maybe the White House was hoping to get this out there in order to help fire up the base. It appears that this may actually be happening: Noam […]