The AP has put out a fact check of President Obama’s claim last night that everything in his jobs program is paid for: resident Barack Obama’s promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions. It will only be paid for if a committee he can’t control […]
Take a look at this story on CNN: Barely a month in office, Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, is putting some muscle behind his independent image by twice voting against his own party and questioning the use of the filibuster. Brown took to the Senate floor Tuesday to announce he would vote for cloture, or to […]
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 […]
Ezra Klein interviewed Sen. Tom Harkin and this really caught my eye: Tell me a bit about your reform bill. When you first introduced this, Joe Lieberman was your co-sponsor, right? Well, I introduced that first in 1995, when we were in the minority. I’m going to reintroduce that again in January. And people are […]
Drudge is linking a couple of past stories on the top of his site: The first article refers to Harry Reid make the statement while discussing filibusters to some high school students and the second refers to an appearance on Meet the Press. Both of these are far different than calling the President a liar […]
The Oregonian has projected that Jeff Merkley beat incumbent Republican Senator, Gordon Smith. This puts the Democrats at 57 seats now. While we most likely won’t see the magical number of 60, every seat helps and means less help we need from the other side to overcome filibusters.
That’s what we should be seeing in the news, but we aren’t. Instead the media is silent on the Republicans filibustering the funding bill for our troops, all because they want to give the oil companies what they want. Think of every time there was a delay by Democrats in passing the war funding bills. […]
Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, had this to say yesterday: WORST CONGRESS EVER: “Remember when only 14% approved of the job Congress is doing? A year later, only 9% do.” The Pelosi/Reid leadership team is taking Congress places it’s never been before! UPDATE: So why are the Republicans running scared, and why aren’t they going after […]
All year we complained how Harry Reid let the Republicans get by with countless “silent” filibusters. Now he is actually making a filibuster actually take place. Sound good? [I]f people think they are going to talk this to death, we are going to be in here all night. This is not something we are going […]
And let them die in Iraq! That should be the new slogan of the GOP. They did another filibuster on Boxer’s resolution condemning any ad against military people (past or present), yet the measure condemning MoveOn’s ad passed. Considering the GOP blocks any measure that would help the troops as a whole, or even give […]