It took the President himself going after Mitch McConnell, but finally he has some of his nominees confirmed: The Senate confirmed a huge group of administration nominees on Thursday, following a tense exchange between President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). At a White House meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders on Tuesday, […]
In an article talking about Tuesday’s race, the Boston Globe decides to talk to one single “liberal blogger” to gauge the feel of the entire blogosphere: Liberal blogs are loaded with complaints about Obama and demands that the president move to the left. During the campaign, “they energized enthusiasm among people who were really jazzed […]
Dave Waldman has a great rundown of what lies ahead for the health care bill as both chambers of Congress attempt to merge two very different bills into one. Sadly the quickest path is once again meeting Republican obstructionism, this time by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) objecting to the appointment of conferees and forcing a […]
Talk about the duh moment to top all duh moments: In a closed-door meeting of his caucus, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, told Democrats that Republicans were not interested in passing a bill. In effect, he prepared them for trench warfare, saying the Democrats must stick together and should be ready to […]
With President Obama’s first pick for a Supreme Court justice looming, I am sitting here wondering if the GOP will try to block his pick. There is an interesting timing here. On the same week Arlen Specter switched parties, Souter announces his retirement. Specter was the ranking member of the judiciary committee and the friendliest […]
The GOP is still going through their post-mortem and trying to figure out just how they became so insignificant, which is leading to even more problems: During a closed-door Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday, DeMint offered proposals to impose term limits on the Republican leader and to restrict how long members can serve on the […]
Not really, but the owner of a firm hired by the California GOP has been arrested for it. This is a very important story because it plays right into the ACORN story. It was an outsider employed by an organization who violated the law, not the organization. Sure the right will dismiss it, but they […]
John McCain wanted Obama to do the same as him and suspend his campaign and allow the debate to be rescheduled. Well the reports out are that the Democrats are on board – it’s the Republicans arguing and bickering over everything. So why would Obama have to suspend his campaign because McCain’s party can’t get […]
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 […]
Yesterday the Republicans filibustered the Webb amendment, which would have given our troops equal time home as in combat. This was a certain show that the Republicans do not support our troops. So today they are supporting the troop. Senate is getting ready to take up debate on a Republican resolution condemning Move On over […]