Image via Wikipedia Good news from the Senate on the healthcare front: WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she’ll vote ‘yes’ on health care test vote, giving Democrats 60. This morning Mary Landrieu said she would also vote yes today. Tonight’s the big vote, so keep an ear out. Things will get really interesting and […]
Last night Rep. Peter DeFazio told Ed Schultz that it was time for President Obama to replace his two top economic advisors over the lack of focus on job creations: I got a feeling this is just the start of many more calls for the firing of Gethner and Summers. Democrats know that people are […]
CNN has ran a very interesting poll that gives us a lot to think about: The poll indicates that a slight majority, 51 percent, of Republicans would prefer to see the GOP in their area nominate candidates who agree with them on all the major the issues even if they have a poor chance of […]
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), one of the pro-life Democrats, is dropping hints that he will oppose the Stupak amendment in the health care bill: Senator Casey has been a vocal supporter of health care reform and voted for the HELP Committee bill in July. He supports the public option to increase competition and reduce costs. […]
Here are the public faces that aren’t in Congress and oppose a public option: AmandaCarpenter: Thanks to our vets today. Here is the 2009 Veterans Day poster from the VA MittRomney: Read my statement on Veterans Day here : http://bit.ly/4sECtC KarlRove: Wishing a happy Veterans Day to the brave men & women who sacrificed to […]
And with this we have our first Democrat: Artur Davis was one of the Democrats to vote against healthcare this past Saturday. Given the fact that over 2,200 veterans without health insurance died last year, it’s kind of hard to believe that Davis is “profoundly grateful” to their service. [congress]D000602[/congress]
This is a priceless move by several House Republicans yesterday: When it’s a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what’s a GOP lawmaker to do? We’ll give you one guess… Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post […]
More bad economic news for the real people of America – the workers: The unemployment rate in the U.S. soared to a 26-year high of 10.2 percent in October and employers cut more jobs than forecast, underscoring why Federal Reserve policy makers say interest rates will remain low until the labor market recovers. Payrolls fell […]
Steve Benen finds one of the most important lessons from Tuesday night: Keep in mind, the two Republican statewide candidates who won this week — Christie in New Jersey and McDonnell and Virginia — wanted nothing to do with Palin, while the high profile conservative candidate who embraced Palin — Doug Hoffman in NY23 — […]
As I mentioned earlier, a major contributing factor to the huge loss Creigh Deeds suffered last night was from the fact that he ended up running against the Democratic agenda. Markos gives some needed warning to the Democrats on what happened last night: Giving Republicans cover by stymying the reform agenda that won Democrats the […]