A long-ago humorous wall plaque featured art work of a woman doing three things at once in her kitchen, none of them successfully, above a caption that read, “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” If we could find one of those plaques, we’d send it to Norm Coleman of Minnesota, who today — [...]
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Drat, there goes another bright idea
We’ve seen it called for on blogs, on TV and heard it boosted by talk radio hosts and callers, but now we learn why forcing obstructionist Senate Republicans to actually filibuster won’t do any good.
Senate doesn’t have time for Burris sideshow
The problem is that week by week, day by day, we’re learning Burris has more stories than Uncle Remus — but unlike that fictional storyteller, isn’t entertaining.
Stimulus cloture vote reveals GOP attitude
Senate Republicans made perfectly clear today how disinterested they are in working with Democrats to resuscitate the economy for the common good. The test was a vote on ending debate about the stimulus bill, allowing for a final vote tomorrow on the bill itself — with a grand total of three Republicans stepping up.
Donnybrook’s over — Burris will join Senate
A long, unnecessary week late, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid bowed to the law, the expressed wishes of the president-elect and common sense, acknowledging Roland Burris, an Illinois Democrat, is entitled to his Senate appointment and will be sworn in. Reid is quoted in an AP story as saying, “He is now the senator-designate from [...]
Reid wrong to reject Burris
We rejected asinine attempts to assign guilt by association when the Republican right tried for months to torpedo Obama’s presidential bid by tying him to Pastor Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. Now, we reject Reid’s asinine rejection of Burris’ legitimacy to represent Illinois in the Senate.
Republicans have an amazing gift
for making bad situations worse
It may be that General Motors, Chrysler and Ford are lumbering, Jurassic beasts that deserve their looming extinction. But only a free-market fundamentalist, a lunatic or a Senate Republican — perhaps that’s redundant — would conclude that now is the moment to hasten Detroit’s demise.
Begich beats Stevens and blocks Palin
Sen. Ted Stevens, recently convicted on seven felony counts, has lost his re-election bid today — his 85th birthday.
Convicted on 7 counts, Stevens should resign
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, convicted today on seven counts of failing to properly disclose gifts and extensive work done on his home, claimed innocence and blamed the Justice Department for railroading him.
Update: Senate passes highway funding bill
A couple hours after publishing our previous post, “GOP senators highjack road funds bailout,” we learned the Republican senators blocking an $8 billion infusion of funds into the federal highway trust fund relented, allowing the bill to pass on a voice vote.
