First, below, is a note I sent to Colorado’s junior senator, Michael Bennet, last Thursday. Following my note is the vacuous form letter I received in response.
Dear Senator Bennet,
I realize this note is almost certainly falling on deaf ears, but I’ll try anyway:
I urge you to vote NO in [...]
Huffington Post is running video of our appointed junior U.S. Senator Michael Bennet saying he will vote for Obama Care socialized medicine even if it means losing his job. In other words, he’s completely ignoring you.
But sounds like a good idea to me. A few sensible Democrats remaining in [...]
Huffington Post is running video of our appointed junior U.S. Senator Michael Bennet saying he will vote for Obama Care socialized medicine even if it means losing his job. In other words, he’s completely ignoring you.
But sounds like a good idea to me. A few sensible Democrats remaining in [...]
Maybe Harry Reid could get away with his sleight of hand accounting tricks in Las Vegas, but he’s having trouble with at least the Republicans in the U.S. Senate, and a whole lot of the voters back home. Current polls by the Associated Press , Rasmussen , [...]
"If you get to the final point and you are a critical vote for health care reform and every piece of evidence tells you if you support the bill you will lose your job, would you cast the vote and lose your" [...]
Looks like Louisiana picked the perfect Senator to represent them in Mary Landrieu - or at least those Louisianans who ply their trade in the shadowed corners of the French Quarter:
Landrieu defended the inclusion of the provision and said Republican critics who accuse her of selling her vote for [...]
The vote is in, and the Reid bill has passed on to debate by a vote of 60 - 39. And we don't even need to write the list, we can name them by memory. Debate will begin following the Thanksgiving break.
I watched the last several hours of discussion, and [...]
Democratic leaders secured the last votes needed to move ahead on historic health care reform legislation, clearing the way for a Saturday night showdown on President Barack Obama's top domestic policy initiative.
In long-awaited speeches, two centrist Democratic senators said they would stand with their party and [...]
It appears that things are still on for later today at the Senate.
Question 1: has anyone seen Max Baucus? I don't know that he's back in DC.
Question 2: has anyone seen Robert Byrd?
These should be two "yes" votes, but you have to play to win, and they need to [...]
Harry Reid’s Senate health bill up for a procedural vote on Saturday, which could allow it to move forward to debate. (Yet Republicans are pushing to read the whole thing, which could take 34 hours!) In any case, be wary of how this bill [...]
Huge news for health care reform:
Sen. Ben Nelson announced Friday he will vote for a cloture motion Saturday that clears the way for Senate debate on health care reform.
Nelson, a centrist Democrat who holds one of the key votes required to prevent a Republican filibuster, said the Senate needs to [...]
The Institute for Health Freedom advises you to contact your Senator today about tomorrow’s vote “on a motion to proceed” on Harry Reid’s health care bill (Sat. Nov 21). There are many reasons not to like this bill. The Institute summarizes:
The bill would (among many other provisions):
require nearly every [...]While Doug Hoffman is going off the deep end in NY-23, charging that ACORN stole the election for Democrat Bill Owens, (I mean this is so ludicrous - almost all the charges leveled against ACORN have been about voter-registration fraud, of which there have been a few minor cases, [...]
I’m going to keep this short…there will be a lot of time to dissect the Democrats’ lies over the next two months.
Yesterday, Harry Reid presented “The Senate Bill” which, if it gets through a cloture vote, will soon be replaced by some other unknown bill.
Just a few of thoughts:
The Senate [...]
I know, you were expecting to see that I'd read the Reid bill since last night. Um, no. But I will have a posting a couple hours about the political calculus of the upcoming vote.
Often there is the evil empire of health insurers who deny claims that shouldn't be denied [...]
The Clear The Bench Colorado message - ‘vote “NO” on the unjust justices of the Colorado Supreme Court in November 2010 to restore accountability to the judiciary and bring back balance to the bench’ - is being picked up by an increasing number of astute observers of the state of [...]
If Denver-area voters do not approve a sales-tax hike and if the federal government fails to contribute $1 billion for the FasTracks public-private partnership, RTD will only be able to build one more rail line - the train to DIA, agency planners told area mayors [...]
Last month’s A Line of Sight profiled Mark Hillman’s excellent article describing the Colorado Supreme Court’s latest “power grab”.
In an audacious power grab, the Colorado Supreme Court recently embraced, by a 4-3 decision, a judicial doctrine that would relegate the other two branches of government — and the voters [...]
Nancy Pelosi rushed the vote on her plan to nationalize the health care industry despite Republican requests to wait until the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could issue the agency’s analysis of the legislation. Now we may know why.
Costs will soar, Medicare services will be slashed, and [...]
