At least we have a few Democrats in Senate still wanting to see true reform: Four Democratic senators, including two facing potentially challenging election campaigns this year, are asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to use reconciliation, a procedural maneuver requiring only 51 votes, to push for a public health insurance option. Sens. Michael Bennet […]
I really like Chris Dodd and want him to start pushing his bill through to fix the FPL, but news like this really makes me angry with him too: Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Wednesday ripped the Senate’s “newest members” for the lack of comity in the upper chamber. In a floor speech Wednesday night, […]
I hate playing the game of “i told ya so”, but it looks like that is what’s going to happen. Last Friday I wrote a post in which I said: I’m just spit-balling here, but something has struck me. For years we have talked about how banning abortion was a necessity for Republican victory, as […]
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, […]
Just now reporting it on MSNBC. So much for change we can believe in. GottaLaff has more UPDATE: Here’s the breaking news alert via the AP: WASHINGTON – Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available. But liberals and […]
Because why should we be a nation of laws? Of the two Democratic senators running for the White House, can you guess which one bothered to even show up and vote against this? If you guessed Hillary then you’re wrong.
Once again Chuck Schumer has told the Democrats in Connecticut to go to hell. He was asked this morning if the DSCC will stand behind the primary winner rather it be Lieberman or Lamont. Schumer would not say that and instead said he would not speculate because they are supporting Lieberman in the primary. What […]
An investigative division of the Pentagon has decided to turn the investigation of the no-bid contracts for Iraq, which were awarded to Halliburton over to the Justice Department for a possible criminal probe. The news came from Democratic Senators who have been holding hearings into the alleged contract abuse. The New York Times has more […]
Its seeming more and more like Bush played the ultimate trump card by nominating John Roberts. He has gone out, picked someone with a short lived bench life and there for does not have many opinions to show how he would vote on controversial issues such as Roe V Wade. Short of him being a […]