That Jonathon Capehart was just on Morning Meeting and saying how the Democrats form circling fire squads because they go after their own members who disagree with them, unlike Republicans. Yeah that’s why Arlen Specter is still a Republican and Lindsey Graham is so loved by the GOP base, right along with Olympia Snowe and […]
This is bipartisanship you can believe in: Former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel will soon have a new role in the Obama administration, he will be named co-chair of President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. In that capacity, Hagel will be charged with overseeing the work of the intelligence agencies for the president and investigating violations of law […]
There has been a lot of talk lately about the constitutionality of the health insurance mandate. The right seems to want to point to the tenth amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. […]
There has been a lot of talk about the new WaPo/ABC poll that finds 57% of the respondents want the public option, with 51% saying go for it without Republican support. Another interesting number in this new poll is 20%. That’s how many people now identify themselves as Republican. The numbers are very dire for […]
Following up on my post from the other day about the Tea Party actually hurting the GOP’s chances for picking up seats next year, we now have today’s WSJ taking a look at this very threat: he rise of conservative “tea party” activists around the country has created a dilemma for Republicans. They are breathing […]
Markos explains why Harry Reid is an utter failure as a majority leader: Bill Frist never had 60 votes. Bill Frist never cared. Republicans ran the Senate as if they owned the place, even when enjoying razor-thin majorities. Yet when Democrats took the chamber, the first thing Harry Reid did was complain that he couldn’t […]
This morning Michael Steele was quick to seize on any chance of slamming President Obama’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize and even used it to drudge up a very old meme – the celebrity mantra: “The real question Americans are asking is, ‘What has President Obama actually accomplished?’ It is unfortunate that the president’s […]
What does this say? House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) are voting against the House/Senate fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill — because it contains hate crimes provisions designed to protect gays and lesbians. Boehner and Pence are putting their own bigotry against the needs of our […]
Pelosi isn’t holding back in telling the Republicans that she is in her place. Check it out: (h/t Think Progress)
Yesterday Bob Dole joined a growing number of big name Republicans in supporting the health care bill: “Sometimes people fight you just to fight you,” he said, according to The Kansas City Star. “They don’t want Reagan to get it, they don’t want Obama to get it, so we’ve got to kill it…” “Health care […]