Posts Tagged ‘Amy Klobuchar’

That Hopey Changey thing: Eliminating filibusters

January 24th, 2013 | No Comments

Within one day after President Obama was sworn in for his second term, Harry Reid was putting in motion the vote to eliminate most filibusters. Here is the list of the Senators that think this is such a good idea they chose to co-sponsor it: Sen Baldwin, Tammy [WI] – 1/22/2013 Sen Begich, Mark [AK] [...]

Minnesota’s Joke

July 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment

Minnesota chose Al Franken to represent them in DC. And we all thought electing a “professional” wrestler as governor was a joke. Everyone knows his SNL stint as the unfunniest of the initial SNLers.  But, I bet a lot of people didn’t realize he’s an accomplished author as well.  A couple of his tomes: Rush [...]

Fannie Mae is now an entitlement program

May 11th, 2009 | No Comments

A lot has been made over the collapse of Fannie Mae.  For a while, peeps kept insisting it was apparently a short term blip and that a huge infusion of cash would apparently make everything good.    Other peeps, like me and a few others, have argued that unless they change the rules and allow [...]

Democrat Senators Forget all about what they ran for

March 14th, 2008 | No Comments

Remember that promise of change in 2006?  You know, the one where the Democrats promised to get rid of the cronyism and corruption in DC?  Well, they had a chance to walk the walk yesterday.  There was a bill in the form of an amendment to eliminate earmarks completely.  Here’s a list of the “changelings” [...]

Bush vetoes the Iraqi pullout bill ( and restores the Constitution )

May 2nd, 2007 | 4 Comments

Yesterday Bush vetoed the Iraqi pullout bill. In that bill, it had emergency spending for the military as well. That was both expected politically, and I expected it for bigger reasons. Spending will be done one way or another until a proper funding bill is presented. The war won’t stop just because a few loonies [...]