February 22, 2010
Democratic officials said the president’s proposal was being written so that it could be attached to a budget bill as a way of averting a Republican filibuster in the Senate. The procedure, known as budget reconciliation, would let Democrats advance the bill with a simple majority rather than a 60-vote supermajority.
There is a reason that [...]
January 26, 2010
“I can guarantee that the worst thing we could do would be to raise taxes when the economy is still this weak,”
President Obama, buffeted by criticism of his massive health care reform bill and election setbacks, said today he remained determined to tackle health care and other big problems despite the political dangers to his [...]
January 19, 2010
Pass Healthcare and we will vote you out!
What a difference a year makes. Republican Scott Brown wins the Senate seat in Massachusetts.
We said it here, and now it has been said in Massachusetts. Pass the Healthcare Bill and we will vote you out.
This is America, and we have a representative Republic. Try to run America [...]
January 17, 2010
“If you think there’s magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that”
In retrospect that sounds like advice we could have applied to Barack Obama last November, but those are the words of Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I) as applied to Scott Brown, the [...]
The Constitution was trampled by the Bush administration but of course only now are so many Republicans getting upset.
Warrantless wiretapping, warrantless surveillance via cell phone GPS. Ignoring of Possee Comitatus. The doing away with habeas corpus.
How come that didn’t bother the great patriots of the country? I know why, it was done by GWB.
Just how is the Obama administration trampling the Constitution?
This marine is walking dangerously close to the sedition line.