Washington (AP) – Senate Democrats have defeated a GOP attempt to eliminate $40 billion in cuts to home health care services in the health overhaul bill.
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[...]State Republican legislators unveiled their own budget-cutting plan Friday, saying the state should restore the sales tax cut that was originally in the budget - and was canceled recently because of weak tax collections.
Going against Gov. M. Jodi Rell's recommendation, the Republicans also said that Rell's proposed $84 million in [...]
Republican lawmakers today rejected plans to cut town and city aid and instead proposed closing the projected budget deficit by cutting state spending by $466 million. They called for immediate action from Democrats whose budget was unbalanced as soon they passed it in September.The Republican proposal reduces the sales tax [...]
The Republicans are still whining about the fact that mean old Al Franken made them vote in favor of rapists a few months back.
This from the party that has made a habit out of proposing resolutions designed solely to force Democrats to cast votes that can be easily [...]
That didn’t take long. No sooner had Governor Rell released her latest deficit mitigation plan, designed to correct the $624 million shortfall left by the atrocity of a budget passed by legislative Democrats, did the caterwauling begin from all manner of groups reliant on the government gravy train.We hear cries [...]
A liberal activist group that has been running ads against Blue Dog Democrats who voted against the healthcare overhaul bill in the House now have a new target: Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee says it has already raised more than $40,000 to run online ads targeting Lieberman, an independent [...]
Or maybe it’s the price of deception.
According to a new Daily Kos poll, the Democrats are still ahead in generic polling. The problem is that very few of them intend to show up at the polls in November, as compared to Republicans and Independents, both of whom intend to [...]
Hartford (WTNH) – With the departure of Sam Caligiuri from the race for U.S. Senate and Tom Foley likely to follow, the Connecticut Democrats issued the following statement:
“For an allegedly “vulnerable” incumbent, Chris Dodd may not seem like such an easy picking to the candidates running against him. In [...]
While the Democrats dither over Chris Dodd's chances at re-election and Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont thinks long and hard about whether he wants to run for governor, the Republicans are all of a sudden getting their chess pieces in place.
With the departure of Sam Caligiuri from the Senate race today and' [...]
Connecticut Democrats are closely watching the shake-up across the aisle. Party spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan said today's departures of Sam Caligiuri and Tom Foley indicate a growing consensus among the GOP that Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd may not be as easy a conquest as they had initially hoped.
"For an allegedly 'vulnerable' incumbent, Chris Dodd may" [...]
In a sharply-worded email, state Democrats are taking Republican Senate candidate Rob Simmons to task for failing to back a health-care plan supported by more than half of the state's residents.
Simmons, who is running for the Senate seat held by Democrat Chris Dodd, one of the architects of the health-care' [...]
Rob Simmons apparently thinks that the road to the Senate lies through the teabaggers. He has sent a fundraising appeal pledging to be the guy who assures that the Democrats never get that 60th vote to advance their big government agenda. Here’s a snippet from his appeal:
The fight in the [...]
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By Mike Whitney
Things could get ugly fast. With the Democrats backing-off on a second round of stimulus, the Fed signaling an end to quantitative easing, and Obama moaning about rising deficits; there's a good chance that the stumbling recovery could turn into another sharp plunge. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Invoking the memory 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.
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Democrats' Obamacare will raise premiums and taxes, cut Medicare, and drive up the deficit. Is This the kind of health care reform the American people want?
In the following video, Senate Republicans remind us that Americans do not want higher premiums and higher taxes disguised as reform:
' [...]Washington (AP) – The Senate will hold its first vote on health care legislation on Saturday night and Democrats will need 60 votes to prevail.
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[...]When the Pelosi/Reid left-wing Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 -- that's $8.67 trillion.
Today, the national debt is 12,039,319,107,488.80 -- more than $12 trillion.
That is a 38% increase in the national debt in the less than three year period that Speaker [...]
Hartford (WTNH) - Connecticut Democrats will hold their 2010 nominating convention in the third week of May, the party announced Monday.
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The following opinion article, about lessons of the aftermath of a New London eminent domain case that went to the Supreme Court, originally appeared in condensed form on the New York Times website. Click here to read the latest news development that prompted the [...] 
Back in the day, when GWB lived in the WhiteHouse, the search engine google was seeded with enough references to “GWB is a failure” that any search on “failure” turned up a reference to GWB. This was great fun for the Democrats and seen as proof that [...]
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer
Washington (AP) – The Obama administration is alerting domestic agencies to expect their budgets will be frozen or even cut by 5 percent, part of an election-year push to rein in record deficits that threaten the economy and Democrats’ political prospects next fall.
Read [...]While I was preparing my post on the funny numbers, Connecticut Democrats Communication director Colleen Flanagan sent out this release that pretty sums up everything I was about [...]
