January 31, 2012 – 8:13 am
I’ll give Harry Reid some credit for bringing the legislation to the Senate floor and getting it passed, at least till we get an in-depth look at the legislation and see if it actually does what it says, but (The Hill) The White House and Democrats have seized on legislation barring lawmakers from making insider […]
January 30, 2012 – 8:10 am
I’m sure somewhere this is because of raaaaacism (Washington Post) President Obama ran — and won — in 2008 on the idea of uniting the country. But, each of his first three years in office have marked historic highs in political polarization, with Democrats largely approving of him and Republicans deeply disapproving. For 2011, Obama’s […]
January 25, 2012 – 3:57 pm
About the only thing of consequence he said during the SOTU that wasn’t part of a campaign speech (The Politico) Conservatives in the blogosphere found one small aspect of the president’s State of the Union address that they could praise: a bill banning insider trading by members of Congress. “Send me a bill that bans […]
December 21, 2011 – 8:56 am
Unfortunately, this is not a thriller or science fiction (Fox News) Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn on Tuesday released his annual “Wastebook” highlighting what he’s labeled some of the government’s most wasteful spending items, including $113,000 for a video game preservation center and $765,000 to subsidize “pancakes for yuppies” in Washington. Coburn, a Republican who is […]
December 9, 2011 – 5:32 pm
Me thinks that Democrats are increasingly concerned about losing the Senate (The Politico) The White House and Senate Democrats are issuing a blunt warning to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republicans: You live by the filibuster, you’ll die by the filibuster. Furious at Republicans for blocking votes on an appeals court nominee and […]
September 22, 2011 – 7:40 am
There was a vote Wednesday on a temporary spending bill, and the narrative is that John Boehner has lost control of Conservative Republicans and Democrats are now in control of the process. How about the narrative that Democrats are so spending drunk that they cannot even cut a measly $1 billion? The House stunned Republican […]
September 21, 2011 – 1:14 pm
This is why I’ve mostly given up on Sarah Palin as a viable presidential candidate: she refuses to take the plunge: Sarah Palin seemed to give a November deadline for a decision on a 2012 bid. Speaking to Sean Hannity on Fox News Tuesday night, Palin said there is still time but conceded that a […]
April 9, 2011 – 10:11 am
That’s the conclusion of the Washington Post’s Dan Baltz As the midnight Friday deadline loomed for a possible government shutdown, and politicians continued their rhetorical war of words, a larger message went out to the rest of the country: Washington is still broken. Unfortunately, Dan never quite says “why” Washington is still “broken.” But, is […]
March 10, 2011 – 7:52 am
The lawmakers and political wonks who have been talking the most about a government shutdown have been…..Democrats! They’ve been attempting to create some sort of scary situation surrounding a government shutdown due to their being no budget, which is obviously the fault of the Republicans…..wait, wasn’t the Democrat led House maleficent for completely failing to […]
March 8, 2011 – 8:13 am
As the saying goes, elections have consequences. One of the consequences of the ‘historic’ Democrat destruction of 2010 is that the Republicans gained quite a few seats in the State assemblies/legislatures, and even full control of some they haven’t controlled in quite a long time. Here in North Carolina, its been over 100 years since […]
