Posts Tagged ‘Robert-Menendez’

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] [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How close do you need to be to the border to feel you KNOW the border problems?

May 18th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Reading from Powerline, here’s the list of who voted AGAINST the border wall: Daniel Akaka Jeff Bingaman Maria Cantwell Chris Dodd Richard Durbin Russ Feingold Daniel Inouye Jim Jeffords Ted Kennedy Frank Lautenberg Robert Menendez Joe Lieberman Patty Murray Barak Obama Jack Reed Paul Sarbanes Let’s look at this another way, shall we? Hawaii – [...]