Just to reiterate from post below, we’re alerted to this information from Roll Call: (via Red State)
A new study of Senate voting patterns shows the chamber has approved more than 97 percent of all bills subject to a cloture motion to begin debate — a finding that could undercut [...]
A fantastic letter from a listener:
Lee and Terry,
The issue is judicial nominees; the subject is David Hamilton. My concern: Senator Alexander’s rigidly philosophical vote. For what it is worth, it is my opinion that there are times—the fewer the better—when philosophical stance should be trumped by circumstance.
It should be well known by [...]
Terry Frank on Lamar Alexander:
In the age of the Obama administration and Pelosi/Reid’s super-sizing of government spending and control, Senator Alexander can no longer hide behind the down-home, good ole’ country boy plaid. The curtain has been pulled back. Sen. Alexander is not likely to run again, it seems [...]
Is this Tennessee or Maine?
In the age of the Obama administration and Pelosi/Reid’s super-sizing of government spending and control, Senator Alexander can no longer hide behind the down-home, good ole’ country boy plaid. The curtain has been pulled back. Sen. Alexander is not likely to run again, it seems obvious. [...]
Senate Votes for Cloture on Hamilton; Sessions Loses on Filibuster
The Senate just voted 70 – 29 for cloture, meaning the nomination of David Hamilton to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit will receive an up-or-down vote. The vote for cloture was a victory for the Obama administration [...]
Alexander Cockburn thinks liberals are fooling themselves if they think the Republican Party grown-ups are gonna let the craziness go on much longer:
Progressives delight in depicting a Republican Party captured by the nutballs, dooming itself to the margins. Don’t believe it. The “sophisticated right” (so described by C. [...]
Jim Gill explains:
First, Alexander’s three-year reduction is already possible at most four-year institutions provided that students take no breaks for summer work or play and avoid enriching programs that require co-op plans, apprenticeships, foreign studies, internships or ROTC camps.
In addition, the three-year bachelor’s student must be magically “burn-out” proof. [...]
Lamar Alexander reports that Republicans are going to take the health care reform bill to the streets:
Republicans are looking to resurrect the angry town halls of August in the last few weeks of November.
Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander said Republicans are “quietly” planning some 50 in-person and [...]
The senior senator is wondering that same thing:
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the third-ranking Republican in the body, said abortion is an important issue but “the issues that are going to dominate the health care debate are whether we’re reducing costs or whether we’re increasing the costs for most [...]
The senior senator on the calls for banning Muslim from the military in the wake of the Ft. Hood tragedy:
When asked whether Congress needs to re-evaluate if Muslims should be in the military, Alexander said: “I think we need to step back and let the United States military make [...]
“My suggestion was they all might remember the parable of the prodigal son, which had a happy ending because the son came home and he was embraced,” Alexander told reporters after a brief speech. “I think that’s about as far as I’ll go.”
George Washington, our nation’s first president and leader of the American Revolution!
Abe Lincoln, honorable leader pulled our nation through its darkest time!
Alexander Hamilton, founding father, first secretary of the treasure and leader of the constitutional convention!
Andy Sher with the breaker:
Sen. Alexander “is an invited guest and is not a contributor,” said Mike Alder, a Republican activist involved in the Williams fundraiser. “We are all very pleased he is coming and this underlines the Speaker’s determination to strengthen our Republican majority.”
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From Alexander Bolton:
“If it was up to me, I would figure out how to handle the war and fix the economy,” said Rep. John Tanner (Tenn.), a senior centrist Democrat who has found himself in the crosshairs of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which has recruited a promising GOP [...]
The senior senator is not a fan of the current health care bill out there:
Rather than “a 2,000-page bill full of surprises,” Alexander outlined several different shorter Republican proposals to help Congress go step by step in the right direction to reduce costs, including measures to:
• Allow small businesses [...]
Betty Bean reminisces about the notorious political consultant:
It seems just yesterday that that he was putting Lamar! Alexander into plaid shirts and Fred Thompson into pickup trucks and rescuing Bob “Call me, Harold” Corker’s campaign from a death spiral into the scrap heap of history.
But even though he’s a [...]
Matt Yglesias takes issues with Lamar Alexander’s:
This is very confused, starting with the fact that Alexander started working as a Senate aide in 1967 by which time the main civil rights debate was over. Then any competent observer of American politics should realize that it’s no coincidence that the [...]
A newspaper editorial board thinks that folks are taking Lamar Alexander’s comments about the Obama administration morphing into the Nixon administration in the proper spirit:
Those who viewed Alexander’s comments as only critical also missed the point that he encouraged cooperation on several pending issues: health care reform, Social Security [...]
Eleven academies in industrialized countries say that climate change is real; humans have caused most of the recent warming. If fire chiefs of the same reputation told me my house was about to burn down, I’d buy some fire insurance.
[...]Tennessee's senior senator, Republican Lamar Alexander, said this week on the Senate floor: Eleven academies in industrialized countries say that climate change is real; humans have caused most of the recent warming. If fire chiefs of the same reputation told me my house was about to burn down, I'd [...]
Senator Lamar Alexander is not too excited by the prospect:
Alexander, a former university president and education secretary, agrees. “I think we’re about to have a 14 million-car pile-up on the highways of American education — right after the first of the year, when that many students receive acceptance [...]
From Talk Radio News:
In a news conference on Wednesday, Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) said that they are fully prepared to block any Democratic efforts to end debate on the Senate’s healthcare reform bill.
“It looks like the next vote will be a vote to move to [...]
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