It’s about time. Bipartisanship isn’t going to happen. Most Republicans seem to think that bipartisanship means Democrats doing what Republicans want. (Sorry to be so late posting this but I had to take my Mom to the eye surgeon today.)
Harkin: Reconciliation is a go
Sen. Tom Harkin told POLITICO that Senate Democratic leaders have decided to [...]
After losing a couple of state governorships, the Democratic Party has appeared perplexed about what happened. I can with some certainty say that in Virginia what happened is Creigh Deeds moved to the right and distanced himself from the voters who voted for Barack Obama. Mostly younger, educated voters, put Virginia in the blue column [...]
I’m terribly afraid the bill has been so watered down that it really means very little.
The House floor erupted in one of the loudest cheers the chamber has heard in years when Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), an hour before midnight, cast the 218th and deciding vote on landmark health care reform.
There were still six minutes [...]
Word is the health care bill will be posted on line sometime this morning. I will post a link as it is available.
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer – Thu Oct 29, 6:49 am ET
WASHINGTON – After months of contentious negotiating, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepared to unveil a retooled [...]
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Frankly, the whole Nancy Pelosi knew accusations are really rather pathetic. So, if Nancy Pelosi knew about the waterboarding and just spoke out the practice of waterboarding would have just been stopped? Really? Give me a break. Let’s not forget that anyone who opposed the Bush Administration was said to be unAmerican and unpatriotic and [...]
Sometimes it seems there are very few women who rise up and distinguish themselves to the level of role model and hero. Sojourner Truth was one of those women. She bravely pointed out the smallness and meanness of the idea that women are somehow “less than” by virtue of their sex. She broke the stereotype [...]
How far back can we go to establish blame? Do we go back to 1947 and blame the U.N. for partitioning the land into Arab and Jewish states…or do we go back to 1917 and blame the League of Nations for granting Palestine to Britain along with a mandate to build a national [...]
What I find interesting is that it took the Secretary of the Treasury to open the eyes of Congress to the dire economic situation of the U.S. I can only assume that they have turned a blind eye to the suffering of Americans who cannot pay the mortgage or gas bill and who have [...]
Pelosi pushes Texas lawmaker Chet Edwards as Obama running mate
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sunday, August 3rd 2008, 2:05 PM
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is behind on a dark horse in the Democratic veepstakes: Rep. Chet Edwards of Texas.
“I hope he will be the nominee,” Pelosi said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
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Edwards, first elected in 1990 and [...]
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