SB5, Ohio’s bill stripping public employee union’s of collective bargaining rights, will have it’s fate decided this November by Ohio voters: Ohio voters will have the chance this November to decide whether the state’s contentious new collective bargaining law should be repealed. The state’s elections chief said Thursday that opponents had gathered enough valid signatures […]
The Senate’s longest serving member, Robert Byrd, died this morning at the age of 92. This really isn’t a big shocker. Byrd’s health has been deteriorating for years and given his age, it was pretty much expected that this was coming after the news of his serious condition yesterday. As far as a replacement for […]
The final vote will be tomorrow at 7am then onto the uncertain fate of #hcr.
A lot of people in the progressive blogosphere are shocked by the passionate disagreements going on over the uncertain fate of health care reform. I for one am not. We are dealing with an issue that will very much affect every single one of us, so people are going to take a much deeper look […]
As much as I hate to have to link to the Weekly Standard, they have posted what I was trying to say yesterday – that there is a very uncertain fate of the bill in the House. One thing I never really thought about yesterday was the 60 House liberals who vowed to vote against […]
Without the public option the Senate bill still will cost an additional $19 billion according to the much anticipated CBO report. Also premiums won’t go down with the removal of the public option, as some had been pushing: The CBO has concluded that, on average, premiums will be the same as they would have been […]
Chris Matthews just said people who don’t like this crap health care bill are not real Democrats – they are netroots. He then went on to accuse us of not voting our whole lives or doing anything for the party. Fuck you, you fat pompous ass hole. I have spent the last 22 years of […]
Not good news for Norm Coleman when the fate of his Senate re-election still hasn’t been decided: Federal investigators are looking into allegations that a longtime friend and benefactor tried to steer money to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, the Pioneer Press has learned. Agents with the FBI have talked to or made efforts to talk […]
This Tuesday is when Senate Democrats will vote on Lieberman’s fate, and that vote will be by secret ballot: Senate Democrats will decide by secret ballot Tuesday whether to take away Sen. Joe Lieberman‘s chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — a post from which he oversees U.S. security issues, as well […]
The “make you feel good” channel of FOX wanted to ignore the troops dying in Iraq, but FOX wouldn’t have it. Here is a clip of Montel on FOX wanting to talk about the troops instead of Heath Ledger. According to BradBlog: Despite the tease at the end of those uncomfortable three minutes, that Williams […]