Despite voter objection, Senate votes 60-39 to push government takeover of health care
In a late Saturday night vote, Harry Reid's 2,074 healthcare reform bill secured the 60 votes needed in the US Senate allowing debate to begin when Senators return on November 30.
Three Democrat senators whose support for the Reid [...]
Some defense and immigration attorneys criticized [...]
Vice President Joe Biden assured Iowans Saturday the nation’s battered economy was slowly turning the corner, and urged Democrats to keep faith amid declining approval in the state for President Barack Obama.
“He has the mind of a president who will take this country to the next level, and he has [...]
DES MOINES – Vice President Joe Biden took on critics of the Obama administration in a forceful speech to Democratic activists in Des Moines Saturday.
Appearing at a fundraising dinner for Iowa Democratic Party, Biden pointed to the economic challenges he and President Obama faced when they were sworn into [...]
Vice President Joe Biden took the offensive in defending the administration’s record, at a time when the Iowa Poll and other polls around the country show President Barack Obama’s job approval slipping.
He listed a number of accomplishments that appeal to various Democratic constituences, such as passage of a bill intended [...]
Vice President Joe Biden reminded an audience of Iowa Democrats tonight that change is not easy.
He said that President Barack Obama and he took office at a time when hundreds of thousands of Americans were losing their jobs and record numbers of homes were in foreclosure. Retirement savings were vanishing.
Beyond [...]
Vice President Joe Biden greeted Iowans at 8:21 p.m. with his familiar “folks” and thanked the crowd for pushing Barack Obama and Biden to the White House.
Of course, Iowans pushed Obama a bit harder than they pushed Biden, he acknowledged. Obama won the caucuses, but Biden came in fifth and [...]
U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell recalled a meeting in February with President Barack Obama in which he said he would no longer kick problems down the road.
So the president and Congress will not kick issues like health-care reform and energy policy down the road any longer, Boswell said.
The decorated Vietnam veteran [...]
Our Declaration of Independence states simply yet powerfully: “that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” To my knowledge, no other nation on this planet uses these words as the foundation [...]
Guess what? Republicans think ACORN stole the election for Obama. Not just the wacky teabaggers. 52% of all Republicans. Now Doug Hoffman, pathetic as he already was, has retracted his concession of the race, because he says ACORN stole that election too. Does he have any evidence? Of [...]
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan’s attacks against U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley are simply “insulting Iowans who disagree with the [Obama] administration’s political decision to bring terrorists to the United States,” an aide to the senator told the Iowa Independent Thursday.
Jill Kozeny, communications director for Grassley, was responding to an [...]
This afternoon Governor Sarah Palin was on Sean Hannity’s Radio show for about 15-16 minutes. Talked the health care bill, the Obama administration, Ronald Reagan, made a reference to “lamestream media,” federal deficits, 2010 elections, government spending, political party machines, and 2012.
She [...]
U.S. Rep. Tom Latham has pledged to introduce legislation that would prevent the Obama administration from further considering a prison just across the Mississippi River from Clinton as a possible future home for detainees currently housed at a military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
“I have heard from so many Iowans over [...]
Several news agencies are reporting that Recovery.gov, the Obama administration's Web site to track stimulus spending, has been calculating jobs created or *saved* in non-existent congressional districts.
Examples of the website either making things up or just being inept:
The site listed Minnesota receiving $400,000 in stimulus [...]
A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, responded Monday to attacks from Iowa Republicans who say transferring Guantanamo detainees to U.S. soil is a “clear threat to national security.”
President Barack Obama has said he wants Guantanamo Bay facility by January. A nearly-empty Illinois prison near the Mississippi River on [...]
This is a category where you don’t really want to be determined to be best, but the decision by the Obama administration to prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York City and four others, really deserves the recognition. The New York Times reports:
WASHINGTON — Khalid Shaikh [...]
Not all Guantanamo detainees are going to face trial in an Article III (federal) court, but September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his key associate Ramzi Binalshibh will. President Obama's statement was:
“I’m absolutely convinced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice,” [...]
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who seems to have made a second career in this sort of thing, is accusing the White House of promoting Democratic power lawyer Bob Bauer in order to cover up an ACORN scandal.
Bob Bauer has a public record of defending Barack Obama’s relationship with ACORN. [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley urged President Obama to act soon to grant Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for roughly 40,000 additional troops to the war in Afghanistan.
The Iowa Republican also noted that U.S. troops were dying as Obama deliberated and met with military advisers before making a decision.
“Based on the president’s [...]
An Iowa Veteran's Perspective on Afghanistan 
The DNC is targeting 32 House Republicans in districts which President Barack Obama carried in 2008 with a “multi-media campaign” of press releases, Op-Eds and letters to the editor, emails and local events challenging the incumbents. Tom Latham – Iowa 4 is one of the targets [...]
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