I’ve been watching the debate on the Senate floor, yesterday and this morning. Yes, I’m a glutton for punishment! I’ve noticed something quite telling. While the Democrats are speaking, I hear emotions. With the Republicans, I see and hear facts, figures, and logic. Am I [...]
Geithner feels pressure from left, right to resign
Geithner was forced to defend himself Thursday at a public hearing on Capitol Hill during which he was pointedly asked by Brady to resign.
DeFazio emphasized that there are growing concerns about Geithner among “populist” House Democrats, who have always been cautious about [...]
I don’t mean to suggest that Democrats are any better when it comes to the deficit, although they have a better case for saying so based on the contrasting fiscal records of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The national debt belongs to both parties. But at [...]
From Sam Jones:
The McWherter campaign’s poll had a sample size of 602 Democratic primary voters. I wanted to find out if that number is adequate to generalize about Democrats in Tennessee. So, enter a general population size of 298,466 (the number of people who voted in the gubernatorial primary [...]
What does ‘first time homebuyers’ have to do with health care?
Senate Democrats’ Health Care Reform Bill
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s statement:
“While Americans have been clear about their opposition to thousand-page bills for new government programs, it’s now abundantly clear that Democrats' [...]
Then again, I’m not among the faithful so I could be wrong:
Sarah Palin is acknowledging that “death panels” aren’t part of Democrats’ health care bills.
But, she says, she’s been talking about them to make a point — and she’s comparing her use of the term to Ronald Reagan’s cold [...]
Folks who read his hometown paper think so. What about you?
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Essay question for Democrats: If the Kent Williams had been a Democrat who became speaker with the votes of' [...]
David Oatney seems to concede conservative media bias:
One has to feel for the Democrats, because they all know that legislative races notwithstanding, unless something changes drastically with the developing political dynamic in Tennessee the Democratic nominee will be beaten. Without some major political help, they will be badly beaten. [...]
73Wire had this video up last Wednesday, the 11th. It would be hilarious if what she was bloviating about wasn’t so serious.
The Speaker of the House actually says it is UNFAIR for people not to have health insurance and pass on costs of POSSIBLE illnesses to the rest of [...]
Oh, Jim Cooper, did you not even have a moment when you looked at the other Democrats in your group where you felt weird, like something was strange about this, even though you could not put your finger on what it was? [...] From the Commercial Appeal:
More time was spent on the issue of gun rights than any other, with Wamp and Haslam sparring over whether Haslam was to the left of Tennessee Democrats on gun laws. Haslam countering by saying gun-rights activists call Knoxville as gun-friendly as it could be given [...]
From Roll Call:
Asked whether she would pledge to no longer endorse the language of protesters who accuse President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats of being “socialist” and “evil” because of their health care reform plan, Blackburn paused before saying, “I’m happy to tell you the American people are very [...]
And that’s how the junior senator likes it:
Although Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) stressed he could neither grandly endorse nor flatly reject the proposal, which Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) officially unveiled yesterday, the Tennessee Republican described the effort as much more forward-thinking than Democrats’ healthcare reform work, which he suggested [...]
Democrats are disappointed that they have to again make explicit their positions on an issue they had hoped to obfuscate:
[...]New Orleans media is reporting that in the wake of his vote with the Democrats to pass House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Health Care Bill, Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao (pronouced “Gow”) is experiencing some backlash back home.
WGNO, ABC 26 News is reporting there have been two fundraisers canceled in the [...]
From The Hill:
Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday made a rare appearance on Capitol Hill, urging Senate Democrats to learn from his mistakes and pass healthcare reform.
Fifteen years after his failed effort to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system, Clinton spent more than an hour with his wife’s former colleagues [...]
The Wall Street Journal on how the tide turned on abortion:
Of the 33 Republicans who opposed the ban in 2001, 26 have since retired or been ousted from office. Nearly all were replaced by Democrats, with the heaviest shift coming in states like New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
[...]The Health Care Bill Americans Don’t Want
by J. D. Longstreet
Just a snippet:
Why is it so difficult for the democrats to understand that Americans would have settled for insurance coverage for those unable to afford it? THAT we could do. It would be a strain but we could manage [...]
So instead of trusting people to grapple with the bigger issues, opinion leaders were lazy and latched onto abortion as a reason for opposition. The result was predictable enough: Democrats passed an amendment banning federal funds for abortion, giving the Blue Dogs enough cover to support [...]
The Shelby County Commission, after 24 rounds of voting, moved to postpone voting for county mayor to next Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m.
The two strongest candidates, Democrats J.W. Gibson and Joe Ford, continued to receive five votes each, two shy of the seven needed to be installed as interim [...]
