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Creeping Jethro Bodine-ism In The Repubilcan Party
It is easy to think of Members of Congress as corrupt, this is particularly true of the Republicans who seem hell bent on doing everything they can to go against what polls show time and again is the will of the people. Since they are the avowed party of…
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The President says finish health care with an up-or-down vote – 46 Senators open to reconciliation
Yesterday, President Obama endorsed finishing health care reform with an up-or-down vote : …I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform. We have debated this issue thoroughly, not just for a year,…
Wake Up Democratic Senators, Republicans Are Not Your Colleagues
People will tell themselves lies. Everyone does it, it is part of making life more comfortable. They will say that what they do matters more than it does, that their activism has a bigger impact than it in fact does, that they are better looking or more…
Joe Biden Can Single-Handedly Run The Reconciliation Process: Parliamentarian Experts
This is from MSNBC and Huffington Post which I don’t normally use, but I think in this case they explain it pretty good. This time I’m using both in one post, what is wrong with me? I just don’t understand why these liberal…
Kent Conrad: Reconciliation Won’t Work
Well here we have a Democrat Kent Conrad, who is the Chairman of the Budget Committee in the Senate saying that “reconciliation can’t be used to pass health care. What he says is that the main Health Care bill can’t be done through &…
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Reconciliation Usage – Republicans 14, Democrats 5
As of this post there are 24 Senators signed on to the use of reconciliation to not only pass comprehensive health care reform, but to use this process to add the public option back in. The White House and the House Leadership have made it clear this is…
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UPDATE — On the Ground in Indiana: The Day After
In all of the chaos from the Sen. Evan Bayh retirement announcement, very little attention has been paid to the fact there is already a woman who has almost collected the required signatures for her name to appear on the ballot for Democrats by the…
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Demon Sheep and Tax Insanity In California
By now you have probably seen the web ad from the Fiorina campaign. It was featured prominently on the Rachel Maddow Show yesterday as well as at Talking Points Memo. If you have not seen it, well you are in for a 3 minute 22 second treat! It is really,…
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