After years of seeing Republicans launch attacks based on nothing but self-serving lies and distortions, only to have Democrats respond too meekly and too late, today’s sudden smack-down of McConnell comes not just as a surprise but as a big relief.
Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
Amendment game’s final inning
will be played on election day
We turned on C-SPAN this afternoon to see how the Senate was doing, just in time to see an amendment to health care legislation by Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, being voted down. The purpose of Crapo’s amendment came as no surprise: removing the provision that would raise taxes on those making more than $200,000 a [...]
Lame excuse for health care reform
makes it out of Finance Committee
Heaven and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus only know what a disembowelment genuinely helpful reform measures suffered in the futile quest for a semblance of bipartisanship.
Senate Dems should abolish filibuster rule
The filibuster serves as Republicans’ means to their obstructionist ends.
Senate shoots down concealed guns law
Think of it as Shootout at the Big Rig Corral, or High Noon in the Quick Stop parking lot.
Whitehouse opening statement
hit nail squarely on the head
Once in a great while someone makes a speech so exceptionally well thought out, so perfectly appropriate to the occasion and so eloquent that it sparks the mind, stirs the conscience and rouses the heart of thoughtful listeners. Think Lincoln calling on Americans to help “bind up the nation’s wounds” when so many wanted angry [...]
Kennedy, Dodd come up with
solid, sensible health care plan
Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn., are putting forth a health care reform plan that looks to be the most workable and all-around satisfactory proposal so far, especially because it’s projected to cost just more than $600 billion over 10 years, not the $1 trillion projected for others. Key features of the Kennedy-Dodd [...]
Tapped phone talk spells
big trouble for little guy
Nowhere in the conversation did Robert Blagojevich offer Burris the appointment. Nor did he give any indication a contribution would ensure or even help him be considered for it. Likewise, Burris doesn’t ask how much he’d have to ante up to get the nomination or to be considered for it.
Thune: A gay for SCOTUS?
What would bigots say?
Heads up, dipstick: Obama’s skin color and racial heritage didn’t make him qualified or unqualified to be president. Likewise, Thune, a person’s sexual orientation, homo or hetero, has nothing to do with their knowledge of the law, their dedication to the spirit and letter of the Constitution, their judicial temperament and their basic humanity.
Specter changes party but not M.O.
Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania today announced he’s switching from the Republican Party he’s belonged to since 1966, to again become a Democrat. Although Democratic leaders rushed to warmly welcome Specter — President Obama saying he was “thrilled” — the senator said he has no intention of being a safe 60th vote, assuming Democrat Al [...]
