Ben Nelson’s woman hating bill was just defeated in the Senate 54-45. Now the big question – will Nelson side with Republicans and filibuster healthcare like he has threatened? Any Democrat that does that should lose their chairmanships – PERIOD.
Since the right loves citing Rasmussen polls, I decided this one is worth highlighting: In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided. Republicans are actually losing […]
I keep thinking back to the Bush years and every time someone in Congress wanted someone from the Bush administration to testify the Republicans would give cover to Bush by arguing about “executive privilege”. At that time so many of us on the left kept thinking “I wonder if they will do the same when […]
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 […]
Image via Wikipedia Everyone knows that Boehner loves his golf, but it turns out he loves it a little too much: By all public estimations, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is a pretty good golfer. He should be, given the $82,998 his political action committee has spent on golf outings so far this year, […]
Image via Wikipedia What a way to really shrink the size of the RNC tent: First Read has obtained a resoultion being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members for comments that proposes a conservative litmus test of sorts. This comes on the heels of a rift in the party that was exposed in the […]
While many on the left side of the blogosphere seemed to enjoy Chuck Todd, I have never liked him. I don’t believe he is the “political insight machine” that so many credit him with and here is more proof of it: John Cole, who caught this little tweet of <cough> brilliance from Todd, says this: […]
Image via Wikipedia Who could have imagined something like this? The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus – tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines. I […]
Image via Wikipedia We knew that it was only a matter of time before the public shifted the blame of the economic mess from Republicans to Democrats and that time has come: Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a […]
I had an interesting thought. The Republicans are constantly saying they want tort reform tied to healthcare. They have constantly argued that one of the reasons our healthcare costs are so high is because of malpractice suits against doctors. So, why not make the doctors federal employees, thus giving them the shield of protection? And […]