Once again politics shows us what it has in common with the world’s oldest profession:
Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase.
On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of [...]
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On a party-line vote:
WASHINGTON – Invoking the name of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
The [...]
Senator Blanche Lincoln announced this afternoon that she will vote to open debate on the Senate health care package:
Sen. Blanche Lincoln is a yes for debating health reform, but a no for the public option, and she and fellow centrists are making clear they expect Senate Majority Leader Harry [...]
Then let's draft it in the form of a petition and get every VB Democrat out there to sign it. We'll then deliver it to our Republican delegation and when they' [...]
Oh wait, this is Washington, they don’t call it bribery, they call it “leverage”:
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Friday night that she’s “leaning towards” voting to start debate on the health care bill – which would leave Democrats just a single vote shy of clearing a critical test for [...]
It's a little known fact that there were two groups of Americans traveling aboard the RMS Titanic that were returning from two separate group tours in Europe. One group was composed entirely of Republicans, the other was made up of Democrats.I find it ironic that Sen Arlen Specter claimed that the Republican party left him, thus forcing him to become a Democrat.
But yet, when one looks at his career, voting record, and his statements on American values, a person can't come to any other conclusion but that this man' [...]
The national debt belongs to both parties. But at least the Democrats don’t go on Fox News day after day proclaiming how fiscally conservative they are, and organize tea parties to rant about deficits, without ever putting forward any plan for reducing them. Nor do they pretend that they have [...]
It would seem that the honeymoon is ending:
Washington (CNN) - Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the [...]
