Apparently John McCain decided to use campaign money to put out a robo-call urging passage of his healthcare amendment. Here is the script: On Monday I introduced the first Republican amendment to the massive health care bill, which would send the bill back to the Senate Finance Committee and stop the Democrats from cutting vital […]
Yeah right: Are Americans dying too soon? The answer is yes. When it comes to “preventable deaths” — an array of illnesses and injuries that should not kill at an early age — the United States trails other industrialized nations and has been falling further behind over the past decade. And here is what really […]
There has been some disturbing developments on the healthcare battle. First we are seeing the normal GOP ploy when it comes to “bipartisanship” in that their definition of the word means they get everything they want and the Democrats pass it. Case in point – Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo): “I also need commitments from Senator […]
It looks like some members of Senate aren’t wasting any time to get one of Obama’s key campaign promises out there: Two of the Senate’s most influential leaders are working separately behind the scenes on legislation that would dramatically alter the way Americans get health care, hoping their early efforts — including the release today […]
hese are the “legal” drug dealers that Congress is now taking on: Once Democrats seized the committee chairmanships on Capitol Hill, the big drug companies sharply aligned with Republicans knew a period of reckoning was coming. Now it has begun. The Democrats’ investigations range from the drug-approval process to television advertising to the bilking of […]
The hero. The idol. The man they set up on a pedestal for the entire conservative movement is now implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal: Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, “perpetrated a fraud” on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a […]
When we hear about “tax cuts”, the Democrats cringe. This has always been the strong hold for Republicans in campaign issues, but that issue may be losing strength: Support for tax cuts — a signature campaign issue for congressional Republicans — is waning on Capitol Hill, with the GOP-led Congress reaching its Independence Day recess […]
We have had a daily dose of Republican absurdness for the past couple days, but here are a couple that just really stand out to me. First up is Senator Charles Grassley, who has now found a fight against prostitution and sex trades and a way to fight them: Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa […]
More proof of Bush’s dwindling “political capital” was evident yesterday as the Senate Finance Committee struck down the Bush tax cuts. The measure could be voted on by Senate today. The tax cuts removed were part of Bush’s first term tax cut program which he has campaigned Congress to make permanent. During his re-election campaign, […]