Just now on MSNBC, Eliot Spitzer said, “this isn’t health reform, it’s health expansion”. That is exactly right. Reform failed in Congress, but expansion is currently on its way to becoming law. And, as Spitzer says, expansion isn’t a bad thing, but stop trying to sell it as reform. Of course the Democrats will never […]
Lieberman left town on Friday night before the snow hit and now CSPAN is reporting that he isn’t back yet. The Senate has a big vote coming up in a little over an hour and they need him there for it.
I never really liked Dylan when he was a guest on Morning Joe and kind of turned my nose at the thought of him having his own show. Damn I was wrong. He now has the only cable news show I try and watch everyday (I don’t even do that for Olbermann or Maddow). One […]
11/2/10 is Election Day and given the current state of health care reform and the Senate constantly ignoring the will of the people, I have decided if this bill isn’t change that I’m going to do something I have never done – skip an election. Having been a life long Democrat and getting involved in […]
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.
I noticed Harold Ford hasn’t been on Morning Joe as much as usual lately and perhaps this is the reason: Democratic sources say that former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. — who relocated to New York City after his unsuccessful Senate bid in 2006 — has been talking about the possibility of running against vulnerable […]
Image via Wikipedia Good news from the Senate on the healthcare front: WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she’ll vote ‘yes’ on health care test vote, giving Democrats 60. This morning Mary Landrieu said she would also vote yes today. Tonight’s the big vote, so keep an ear out. Things will get really interesting and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Republicans in the Senate have so far offered 27 amendments to the health care bill. The Wonk Room has a rundown of all these crazy changes and they will only make healthcare less affordable. Ironically even if all these amendments were added the Republicans still wouldn’t support the bill. Hopefully Democrats will show enough spine […]