Activist Maurice Joseph Schwenkler, 24, pleaded guilty Monday to a second-degree misdemeanor for smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters last summer.
He received one year of probation and was ordered to [...]
Activist Maurice Joseph Schwenkler, 24, pleaded guilty Monday to a second-degree misdemeanor for smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters last summer.
He received one year of probation and was ordered to [...]
I am taking off for the holidays.
If you've been reading for a while, you know I have taken time for work-related business trips, family matters, conferences, staying at the hospital with sick friends, but you've never heard me say "vacation." My last vacation was in 2007: I attended the Florida Democratic Party [...]
#tcot #redco #obamacare #socialism
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the Senate
Dems schemed over health care. Who cares what was in it?
The majority planned, in guise of reform,
To pass their agenda in one perfect storm.
“We own the whole Senate!” cried they with a grin.
“Not [...]
Alabama “Democrat” Parker Griffith will reportedly switch to the Republican Party today. You can read the story for yourself (links below), but it’s interesting to note that Griffith is an MD.
Keep in mind that Pelosi passed health care through the House by 3 votes, of which one was a Republican [...]
Sen. Michael Bennet on Monday broke with his party's leadership on health care, criticizing Democrats for' [...]
A couple months ago, the name "Drew Pritt" crossed my radar. He took out a Facebook ad announcing that he was running against Blanche Lincoln in next year's Democratic primary. I looked into him, and didn't consider him a serious, nor a viable, candidate for the US Senate. Posts [...]
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute has a well-documented article at Sphere explaining some false claims about of the looming health care “reform” (HR 3590)
Health care reform will reduce your insurance premiums. Middle-class taxes won’t be raised. You can keep your current insurance It will only cost $848 billion. (As if [...]
Just prior to the Senate passing a version of Obamacare, Democratic Senator Tom Hawkin, from Iowa, said “let’s make history.” They did. So did General Custer.
Reid just started speaking. Lieberman is back in town. Vote should be happening soon.
Update: A rare vote from their seats. And a rare view of all Senators in their seats.
Update 1:18 AM: 60-40 as expected, cloture is achieved.
Update 1:21 AM: Lots of hugging and hand-shaking on the Democratic side.
[...]Democrats last week pounced on [...]
A one-minute video shows the discrepency between their promises for transparency and how the House Bill and Senate bill have progressed:
(Via Patients First)
[...]Chris Matthews said that the netroots was not comprised of "grown-up Democrats", and that the netroots neither votes nor is involved with actual politics.
Markos went on The Ed Show the following hour and had this to say:
I couldn't agree more...with Kos.
Another city throws their hat into the 2012 ring:
Democrats and Republicans already are scoping out sites for their 2012 national conventions, and this time around Phoenix is on both parties’ short lists.
The fact that both sides are looking at Phoenix highlights Arizona’s future prominence on the electoral landscape. [...]
Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter and Republican challenger Pat Toomey are deadlocked 44 - 44 percent in Pennsylvania's marquee 2010 U.S. Senate race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
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Sen. Specter holds a commanding 53 - 30 percent lead in the Democratic Senate primary over Congressman Joe Sestak, [...]
The natives are getting restless in the Daily-Kos, Huffington Post, Bernie Sanders socialist wing of the Democratic Party. It’s fascinating to watch, particularly given the general (and generally accurate) view among conservatives and libertarians that the leadership of the Democratic Party is very far left.
It turns out they’re not far [...]
Check out Newsbusters’ coverage of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll (PDF). The Tea Party is “viewed quite a bit more favorably” than either the Democrats or the Republicans.
But of course, the Tea Party movement hasn’t had the opportunity and/or the reins of power to spend like [...]
Check out Newsbusters’ coverage of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll (PDF). The Tea Party is “viewed quite a bit more favorably” than either the Democrats or the Republicans.
But of course, the Tea Party movement hasn’t had the opportunity and/or the reins of power to spend like [...]
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Democrats are playing the blame game as to why Villafuerte withdrew her nomination for the U.S. Attorney position for Colorado. An aide to Sen. Mark Udall gave his observation.
According to Alan Salazar, an aide to Senator Mark Udall, among Villafuerte's most prominent [...]
Prominent Republicans are favoring Denver lawyer John Walsh III for the job of Colorado's U.S. attorney and have written letters supporting his nomination to Democratic Sen. Mark Udall.
Walsh was one of three names submitted by Udall and former' [...]
"As a former small business owner, the Blue Dogs share my strong belief in fiscal discipline and responsibility," the Fort Collins Democrat said in a [...]
Friend of the Teabaggers Jane Norton isn't backing down on the crazy:
Former Lt. Governor Jane Norton said she was spurred to try to win Colorado Democratic Michael Bennet’s U.S. Senate seat by what she sees as the dramatic expansion of government in the Obama era. In stump speeches, emails [...]
Former Lt. Governor Jane Norton said she was spurred to try to win Colorado Democratic Michael Bennet's U.S. Senate seat by what she sees as the dramatic expansion of government in the Obama era. In stump speeches,' [...]
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York interviews an anonymous Democratic political strategist to help answer some questions that have been nagging me, too:
To some observers, the Democrats’ race to pass national health care seems irrational — even suicidal. Don’t party leaders understand how much the public opposes the bills currently [...]
