As Democrats in the General Assembly and on the campaign trail moan about the “culture of corruption” which they feel is coming to light in the majority caucus, they would be well served to recall that people in glass houses should not throw stones. Take, for example, State Representatives [...]
B Balz Comment below deserves promotion — Chris
To: GA GOP Leadership
From: Just a GOP taxpayer
RE: Your worst nightmare
Hat Tip to Sara @ http://sarawaraclara.blogspot.com/
Written by Sara:
So, Georgia Democrats, you have 3 tasks:
1. Make sure every single member of the Democratic caucus is clean as a whistle on professional [...]
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle has a great editorial in the Washington Times explaining the burden that states will bear if ObamaCare becomes law:In its current form, the House Democrats' health care bill would create a huge increase in the number of Americans eligible for government-run Medicaid health care. But' [...]
Doug McKillip and Keith Heard on to put on an interesting breakfast show for us to learn and listen, so make your reservations now.Reservations due for Democrats breakfast || OnlineAthens.com [...] We often hear Blue Dog Democrats referred to as “fiscal conservatives” and we’re told about their concerns about the budget deficits.The guys over at National Taxpayers Union have put together a spreadsheet showing how Blue Dogs or otherwise vulnerable districts have voted on TARP, the auto bailout, the [...]
It doesn't look like things are all well and good among Democrats in the Senate:Fissures between liberal and centrist Democrats cracked open on Sunday in the aftermath of a procedural vote, which paved the way for the estimated $848bn draft Senate bill to be debated on the floor. Leaders' [...]
Rasmussen is out with a new poll that shows opposition to ObamaCare has reached a new high:Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls [...]
Georgia Democrats raised more than Republicans in the month of October, and have raised more for the entire year-to-date. However, Republicans have well over $1.6 million cash-on-hand compared to the Democrats $147k.
[...]According to a new poll from CNN, Democrats are taking heat for the economy, months after taking ownership of these woes:
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country’s current economic problems. That’s down 15 points from May, [...]
Senate Democrats Advance Health Care Reform BillDemocrats in the U.S. Senate have united to push health care reform legislation past a key procedural hurdle, paving the way for full-scale debate starting later this month. President Barack Obama has made passing sweeping health care reform his top domestic priority.
In case you haven’t already heard, the Democrats in the Senate were successful on the procedural to open debate on ObamaCare:
The spectator galleries were full for the unusual Saturday night showdown, and applause broke out briefly when the vote was announced. In a measure of the significance of the [...]
The first procedural vote on Obama in the Senate will come tomorrow as Democrats try to win 60 votes to begin debate:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that the first crucial vote on an $848 billion health care overhaul package would probably happen Saturday.
That procedural vote will decide [...]
Two California Democrats are bragging about pork they got out of the health care bill passed by the House on Saturday in exchange for their votes:California Democratic Reps. Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza touted new funding for projects and facilities in their districts coming as a result of the [...]
The House of Representatives passed HR 3962, the misnamed Affordable Health Care for All Americans Act, by a vote of 220 to 215. Thirty-nine Democrats voted against the bill and one Republican voted for it.
The Republican substitute went down without much of a fight. [...]
Americans demonstrated their concerns over middle eastern energy dependence on fossil fuels and rising gas prices with a landslide defeat of Republican energy policies. These concerns are inextricably linked to fuel efficient cars and cleaner alternative fuels. The Democrats big win was a major bolster to green cars and alternative [...]
He was just on Fox News being one of the few Democrats who won’t boycott the network and also one of the few Democrats to say he will vote no on the health care legislation.
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