The Loyola College Republicans and Loyola College Democrats are co-hosting a candidate forum featuring candidates for Illinois State Senate's District 7, to be held on Wednesday, December 2 from 5:00 -7:00 p.m. at Finnegan Auditorium (Damen Hall, 6430 N. Kenmore Avenue) on the Loyola campus in [...]
by Michael Muskal
The Senate began deliberations on its version of a healthcare overhaul today, with Democrats searching for a bill that will be supported by 60 senators.
Returning from the Thanksgiving holiday, the Senate slowly began the debate on President Barack Obama's centerpiece issue with the expectation that amendments [...]
Illinois Democrats continue to make news with their unethical behavior. This week, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has included two Illinois federal lawmakers -- US Senate Roland Burris and US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr -- in their list of Congress' 15 Most Corrupt Members of Congress.
Both Burris and' [...]
by Mark Silva
The Senate's post-Thanksgiving debate over health care gets underway this week against a backdrop of apparent deep public division and slight disapproval.
With the Senate poised to take up a health-care overhaul which the Democrats and independent allies have voted to advance to debate and which the [...]
by Mark Silva
The Senate's post-Thanksgiving debate over health care gets underway this week against a backdrop of apparent deep public division and slight disapproval.
With the Senate poised to take up a health-care overhaul which the Democrats and independent allies have voted to advance to debate and which the [...]
Liberal Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page takes a look at some troubling poll numbers for the Democrats.from the Proft for Governor campaign
Policies advanced and supported by the nine Chicago Democrats who control $70 billion worth of government and 125,000 public sector jobs in Illinois have destroyed this state's economy. Those 9 Chicago Democrats: Pat Quinn, Lisa Madigan, Jesse White, Dan Hynes, Alexi Giannoulias, Mike Madigan, John' [...]
With unemployment jumping over 10 percent nationally last month and the midterm elections just a year away, Democrats are scrambling to find new ways to buoy the economy. In the past few weeks, a cadre of high-ranking lawmakers have coalesced around a "job creation" package, which Illinois' own Sen. Dick Durbin has' [...]
Democrats are either hedging their bets on keeping Obama's US Senate seat in Illinois, or they're bluffing. An Associated Press piece says:
The Obama administration has even expressed some uneasiness about Democrats' ability to keep the seat away from Republicans in the wake of Blagojevich.
"Obviously there is an added burden, but'" [...]
from the RNCC
The controversy over the stimulus package continues, both nationally and in Illinois – creating a political problem for the Illinois Democrats who blindly supported the bill that has created more government, but not more jobs.
All three of Illinois’ vulnerable Democrats in the House- Melissa Bean, [...]
Rasmussen. Lowest presidential approval index yet. And on healthcare? Support for the health care plan proposed by the President and Congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low of 38%. Sixty percent (60%) of voters believe passage of the bill will [...]
We're not proned to making fundraising suggestions to our ideological opponents, but maybe Illinois Democrats might want to tap into their never-ending supply of something similar to what the innovative staff of a Bloomington zoo is using to raise over $16k this month.
Staffers make decorations out of droppings' [...]
Public Affairs' Jeff Berkowitz provides a valuable service by helping conservatives get to know the Democrats' possible US Senate candidate in the November 22, 2009 interview below. Not only does David Hoffman provide negative info on Alexi Giannoulias, he gives Republican primary voters reason to find the best candidate to represent Illinois to the [...]
Charles Krauthammer on FoxNews tonight illustrates the idiocy of the Democrats' stance on healthcare. There is no provision in ObamaCare for tort reform, which would save half a trillion to a trillion dollars or two, nor is there the opportunity to buy health insurance across state' [...]
WASHINGTON--A day after the Senate ethics committee handed him a stinging rebuke, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) on Saturday voted to advance the Democratic health care bill to the Senate floor and then departed for an official visit to Iraq.
Burris--on his first official overseas trip as senator--is traveling with Democrats [...]
by Mark Silva
With the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a health-care bill that the president is seeking by year's end, the debate of the 2010 midterm elections has been joined:
For the Democrats, in control of the White House and Congress, the congressional elections will [...]
Senator Mitch McConnell's closing words before last night's US Senate cloture vote, which the Democrats won with not a vote to spare, 60 to 39:
“Mr. President, the nation is watching the Senate tonight. The American people know how important this vote is. They’ve seen the bill the Democratic Leaders want [...]
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.
The 60-39 vote cleared [...]
A few minutes ago, 60 Senate Democrats--but no Republicans--voted to proceed with debate on the Harry Reid health care bill. 
