This would be a big blow to one of D.C.’s biggest lobbying group and could open the flood gates on other tech related businesses to exit the organization: Google is considering ditching the U.S. Chamber of Commerce out of frustration with its support for legislation that would force Internet companies to police websites that peddle […]
Rasmussen, who has tried everything to slant polls in regards to collective bargaining, is out with new results showing big support for collective bargaining and rapidly fading support for Gov. Scott Walker. Of course that won’t change what Walker and the GOP is doing because they are “listening to the people” and by people, I […]
Appearing in USA Today is an article by David Sirota laying out the arguments against the Senate Bill: The Senate health care bill betrays the promise of fundamental “change” Democrats made during the 2008 election. It cloaks a handout to the health industry in the veneer of “reform.” Though it includes some positive subsidies and […]
Joe Sudbay points to a post by political psychologist/neurologist Drew Westen on Huffington Post where he gives a very brutal, yet honest, assessment of President Obama: Somehow the president has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters he himself energized like no one else could in 2008 into the likely stay-at-home voters […]
The practice of leaving the Senate to become a lobbyist is all to common: “It used to be that lawmakers were coy about any ideas they had about heading for K Street, waiting until their terms ended before announcing they were beginning a more lucrative career,” Politico’s Kenneth Vogel opines. Not anymore. Florida Sen. Mel […]
This is from a press release that went out this afternoon from The Heritage Forests Campaign: The Bush administration today released documents announcing its intention to remove protections for more than six million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of Idaho. Idaho’s roadless backcountry areas are some of the nation’s last intact national […]
This is great news for Ohio: Republican Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record), dogged by a corruption scandal involving disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, will not seek re-election in the November mid-term election, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said on Monday. “Bob Ney was forced out of this race by the reality of an […]