I take as my thesis that the Senate Democrats, by voting unanimously for cloture on the ObamaCare bill (or PinkyCare, after Sen. Majority Leader Harry "Pinky" Reid, D-Caesar's Palace, 70%), have made themselves very vulnerable in 2010 and 2012. I also take it that the more Republican the state, the [...]
Rep. Loretta Sanchez is one of 16 incumbent House Democrats the National Republican Campaign Committee decided to send in the robocallers on.
Sanchez, D-Santa Ana, according to the script that NRCC officials were glad to share, has “lost touch” with her constituents. It also takes her to task [...]
As Senator Harry Reid (D-Mt. Crumpit) rammed the Democrats’ health care overhaul legislation through the Senate, many conservative bloggers, pundits and even the New York Times reported the various payoffs to certain Senators to secure their votes. Now, some bloggers, pundits and policy wonks (having the time the [...]
Majority Leader Harry Reid, flanked by Sens. Max Baucus and Tom Harkin, announces AMA support for health bill
Senate Democrats took another step toward eventual passage early this morning when [...]
The time when Democrats can automatically funnel taxpayer dollars into their reelection campaigns via public employee unions may be over, if Chuck DeVore has his way.
DeVore, the conservative stalwart who is running to unseat Senator Barbara Boxer, became the first major Republican candidate to endorse The Citizen Power Campaign, [...]
The time when Democrats can automatically funnel taxpayer dollars into their reelection campaigns via public employee unions may be over, if Chuck DeVore has his way.
DeVore, the conservative stalwart who is running to unseat Senator Barbara Boxer, became the first major Republican candidate to endorse The Citizen Power Campaign, [...]
The time when Democrats can automatically funnel taxpayer dollars into their reelection campaigns via public employee unions may be over, if Chuck DeVore has his way.
DeVore, the conservative stalwart who is running to unseat Senator Barbara Boxer, became the first major Republican candidate to endorse The Citizen Power Campaign, [...]
What’s costing the president and courting danger for Democrats in 2010 isn’t a question of left or right, because the president has accomplished the remarkable feat of both demoralizing the base and completely turning off voters in the center. If this were an ideological issue, that would not be [...]
It would seem that whenever Harry Reid's well-gummed wad of bleached wood pulp and ink is fully regurgiated onto the Senate floor for his fellow Democrats to suck up we'll find plenty of "good news" gobbits floating his slop. Just in is a report that the Sun has once again' [...]
Articulating a point made by the Administration, various Washington Democrats and perhaps a pundit or two, one of our readers insisted that support for Obamacare “will only increase once it passes and the apolitical undecideds reward Obama for getting something done“. Hardly. Given the trend in polling showing that [...]
Of all the Democratic Senators up for reelection next fall in states which normally vote Republican, I had assumed (and still contend) that Indiana’s Evan Bayh would have the easiest time winning reelection. To be sure, Indiana did narrowly go for Obama last fall, but the Democrat really invested in [...]
The Capitol is blanketed in snow as senators inside debate health care reform.
Democrats made good on their announcement this weekend that they had the votes to pass a health reform bill when just [...]
Despite President Obama’s repeated efforts to move public opinion in favor of the Democratic plan to overhaul our health care system, he was only able to generate a slight bump in the polls in early September, but to see those numbers slide even further–and a pretty steady pace–in the [...]
While the Democrats hard sell worked to flip erstwhile “moderate” Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, one centrist Republican who had voted for the Baucus version of a health care overhaul in committee, remained unswayed:
One GOP lawmaker who had been in talks with the White House, Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, said the bill [...]
With the Democratic Congress on the verge of passing quite possibly the most unpopular piece of major legislation in U.S. history, with more people disapproving than approving Obama’s handling of the economy and with an increasing number of Americans believing the country is on the wrong track, [...]
No wonder President Obama and the Democrats moved heaven and earth to overhaul our nation’s health care system. It’s all about making history. On Yahoo!’s main page, we read Obama hails 60th Senate vote for historic health reform bill“
Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th [...]
As this chart below shows, support for the Democrats’ proposed overhaul of our health care system was never strong, rarely cracking 50% (and then only by a point or tw0) in any of the surveys used for this compilation. While support has gradually declined since Obama took office, opposition [...]
“My message to the President: What the world needs is a just and equitable deal. What the world needs is a transparent, democratic, participatory process for concluding a deal. What the world needs is a sense of solidarity and a commitment to help those who need to be saved, [...]
Well, the good news is that come 2013, Nebraska will have two Republican Senators for the first time since 1976. Indeed, it now seems likely that Republicans will have a cloture-proof Senate for the 113th Congress. The likelihood for a Republican majority in the 112th Congress has increased dramatically, with [...]
So, the Democrats say they have 60 votes in the Senate to close debate. Okay. Maybe. That is if no other Senator gets the idea to extort further concessions, payments and pork--as both Landrieu and Nelson have. Also watch for principled (and unmovable) conservative Democrat Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia.
Oh, [...]
In an impromptu Saturday press conference, President Barack Obama applauded the efforts of Senate Democrats who have successfully worked to get the 60 votes his heath care reform package needs for passage.
** OBAMA TODAY – SUNDAY. President Barack Obama is in Washington today.
Obama has received his daily intelligence [...]
Now that President Obama has declare a magnificient victory in Copenhagen after accomplishing none - that’s zero - of the climate summit’s goals, it’s a good time to note the mindset that drives such stuff.
It’s important to remember that statists, such as the Democrats who run the White House and [...]
Looks like there’s something to our contention that the supposedly non-partisan Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is really just a gay auxiliary for the Democratic National Committee.
Checking out “HRC PAC records at OpenSecrets.org for the 2010 election cycle,” principled left-wing blogger Michael Petrelis finds that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) [...]
Today's Times editorial on the fight between congressional Democrats and Republicans over the estate tax points out a curious fact: The much-derided "death tax" will actually go up in 2011 -- to 55% on estates worth more than $1 million from its current 45% on estates worth more than $3.5 [...]
