Is Scott Walker even all there mentally? At a press conference Monday afternoon, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) fired back at state Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D), the leader of the 14 Democrats who have fled the state in order to block budget quorum on Walker’s anti-public employee union proposals, who this morning sent Walker […]
It finally looks like the White House is going to get out front and show America who the party of no really is: The White House is preparing late this week to aggressively go after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his GOP colleagues on financial reform. A Democratic party source said Thursday evening […]
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, […]
The wingnut attacks on Graeme Frost are getting ridiculous. It turns out that Malkin isn’t the only one harassing the family now, according to ABC: According to Senate Democratic aides, some bloggers have made repeated phone calls to the home of 12-year-old Graeme Frost, demanding information about his family’s private life. On Monday, a spokesman […]
I guess not: cloture vote in the Senate just moments ago on whether or not D.C. residents will get congressional representation ended up with 57 Ayes and 42 Nos, meaning Democrats and moderate Republicans weren’t able to find the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster organized by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The citizens […]
One of the key reasons for the Democrats victory this past year was attributed to the ethic problems in Washington. Even Bush admitted that. Now the Senate Republicans do not want to fix the ethic problems: Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists’ influence and tighten congressional ethics rules, refusing to let […]
This is how incompetent the Republicans in Senate are: When angry Democrats briefly shut down the Senate last year to protest the slow pace of a congressional investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) claimed a rare victory. Republicans called it a stunt but promised to quickly wrap up […]
Finally we have a case of identity theft hit someone who might be able to do something: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid discovered this week he was the victim of identity theft after someone used his MasterCard number to charge about $2,000 at a Wal-Mart and other stores in Monroe, North Carolina. The Nevada Democrat […]
Today the Democrats are releasing their national security plan. The plan is to be released at noon, however advanced copies have gone out to some in the press. The plan offers a change of course in current policy and putting a greater attention on capturing Osama: Eyeing House and Senate elections this fall, Democrats are […]
On a rather slow and quiet Tuesday about a month ago a hell broke loose on Capital Hill when Harry Reid shut down Senate to demand answers on the stalling of the next phase of the pre-war intelligence report. It lead to outbursts before the cameras and a new political fight. It also resulted in […]