Posts Tagged ‘republicans’
Al Franken has a problem: DEAR REPUBLICANS: My boss is not my doctor. My health care choices are none of my boss’s business — and none of yours, either. Seriously — what’s wrong with you guys? Signed, Al Franken & YOUR NAME + OTHERS HERE He thinks allowing individual employers to decide how to best [...]
Tags: Al-Franken, communism, Franken, health-care, insurance, nationalized, obamacare, poll, republicans, socialism
Posted in Government, Polls | No Comments »
In the heat of a budget stand-off, President Obama had this bi-partisan spirited comment to smooth the hurt feelings and bruised egos: That’s right, the Republicans are going to take away your social security after August 3 if Obama doesn’t get what he wants. Scaring the beejeebers out of the elderly, we’ve not seen that [...]
Tags: budget, democrats, elderly, obama, republicans, social-security, stand-off
Posted in Entitlement Programs, Ethics | No Comments »
The Republicans are pushing a measure to end TARP and return unspent funds to lower, make that, not increase, the national debt. I am betting Nancy Pelosi will not allow this subversive effort to limit her ability to spend huge amounts of money to occur. Any takers?
Tags: debt, H.R. 4173, nancy pelosi, republicans, tarp
Posted in Legislative Process, National Politics | No Comments »
February 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment
This is getting confusing to me. According to my math, the Democrats have a pretty comfortable majority in the Senate. Currently they hold a 56-41 majority with two independents caucusing with the Dems as well. That makes it 58-41. Very possibly, another seat will be given to the Dems via the Minnesota courts. In basketball, [...]
Tags: bipartisan, blue dog, democrats, economic, harry reid, majority, minority, nancy pelosi, obama, partisan, pork, recovery, republicans, spending
Posted in economic-policy, Entitlement Programs, National Debt, National Politics | 1 Comment »
January 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment
During Obama’s campaign for the White House, he preached endlessly about bipartisanship. As with the rest of his message of “change”, people, and especially media, bought it hook, line, and sinker: You said the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and pettiness and anger that’s consumed Washington; to end the political strategy that’s [...]
Tags: barack obama, bipartisanship, change, congress, democrats, house fairness, house of representatives, hr 11, hr 12, lilly ledbetter, nancy pelosi, partisan, paycheck fairness, republicans
Posted in Ethics, Legislative Process, Politics | 1 Comment »
November 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments
The most screwed up political issue of the Bush administration will be returning I imagine very shortly for the Obama administration. First, I want to make sure people understand where I’m coming from: The “Bush ban on stem cells” originally was passed in 1999. Bush wasn’t president, Bill Clinton was. This was a complete ban [...]
Tags: barack obama, bush administration, claire mccaskill, conservatives, embryonic, embryonic research, embryonic stem cell, george-hw-bush, harry reid, human embryonic stem cell, human embryonic stem cell research, john-mccain, lie, livescience, manipulation, michael-j-fox, nancy pelosi, NIH, politicization, president, President-Bush, republicans, stem cell ban, stem cells
Posted in 2006 US Senate Races, 2008 Presidential Race, Ethics, Idiot of the day, Media, media bias, National Politics, Political Correctness, Politics, The Media | 2 Comments »
In her speech to rally the troops to vote for the Rescue package, Nancy Pelosi accepted no responsibility for past actions by either herself or any member of her party. She put the entire blame on a situation that has festered for thirty years solely on Republicans. And, then, to top it off, gave a [...]
Tags: bipartisan support, blame game, caucus, congress, democrats, legislation, majority party, minority party, nancy pelosi, republicans, steny hoyer
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Ethics | No Comments »
September 29th, 2008 | No Comments
In a move that surprised me, the bailout bill was voted down in Congress. It was fairly close, 228-205 I think it was. In order to get it back on track, some media are saying Pelosi expects nine Republicans to change their votes for a re-consideration. This is how she’s motivating the Republicans: Now, slap [...]
Tags: bailout, congress, democrat, democrats, dow, fannie-mae, fiasco, freddie-mac, pelosi, republicans, roosevelt
Posted in Ethics | No Comments »
September 11th, 2008 | No Comments
Now, according to what I’m reading, Nancy Pelosi has agreed to consider an off-shore drilling proposal presented by Democrats. I’m sure she’ll tout this as a major new idea and an example of the failed economic policies of Bush. However, it’s got thorns attached. From what I’m reading, and I’ve not read the actual proposals: [...]
Tags: compromise, congress, democrats, economic gain, economic policies, Ethics, financial risk, legislation, nancy pelosi, off shore, oil producers, pickens, proposal, republicans, tax increases, windmills
Posted in Ethics, Oil Policy, Oil Supply | No Comments »
Apparently smarting from polls that put his Senate leadership in the single digits, Harry Reid decided to fight back starting with this letter to The Hill Blog: When our country is in crisis, Congress must be ready to take immediate action. Democrats in Congress have tried to take action again and again. We have proposed [...]
Tags: alternative energy, congress, democrats, energy, harry reid, minority, nancy pelosi, oil, oil traders, opec, price gougers, republicans, Senate, tax
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Oil Policy | No Comments »