Tensions between Republicans and tea party supporters which began as a few seemingly random salvos have now become a full barrage, and will go fully nuclear by 2012 — threatening both sides with mutually assured destruction. Leave it to the GOP, the party that embraces short-term prosperity based on deficit-financed tax cuts, to be as short-sighted in its alliance with the tea party. What’s surprising isn’t that the Republicans are paying for their marriage of convenience, but rather that...
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Analysis: GOP Attack On Healthcare Law Begins Tuesday
The Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on an amendment by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) to small business legislation that would repeal a provision of the landmark health reform law enacted earlier this year which is designed to raise revenue by reducing noncompliance with the nation’s tax laws. The Johanns amendment would offset the large revenue loss from repealing the tax compliance provision by eliminating critical funding for health prevention and by seriously weakening a key element of health...
September 11 – Lest We Forget, update
Ted Koppel has caught up to The Democratic Daily/his vorpal sword, I am pleased to report. In an op-ed scheduled for the Sunday, September 12 edition of the Washington Post, he begins ..
Capitol Idea: Send Rahm Packing — Now
President Obama clearly wants Rahm Emanuel to wait until after the November elections to leave the White House to run for mayor of Chicago. “He is an excellent chief of staff. I think right now, as long as he is in the White House, he is critically focused on making sure that we’re creating jobs for families around the country and rebuilding our economy,” Obama told George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America. “And you know, the one thing I’ve...
Dean Group Makes ‘Anti-Endorsements’ Against GOP Leaders Boehner, McConnell
A political action committee associated with former top Democrat Howard Dean has taken the unusual step of issuing “anti-endorsements” against the Republicans who would take over the reins of Congress should the GOP win control in November. Democracy for America (DFA) says its membership selected House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, as the top vote getters of the “DFA 2010 Villains anti-endorsements.” Boehner likely would become speaker if Republicans capture...
Hunting for Courageous Legislators: Pennsylvania Continues to Lead Nation in Animal Cruelty
Twenty minutes South of Harrisburg, on a two hour drive to her home near Gaithersburg, Md., Heidi Prescott shed a tear. No one else saw it, only one other person could hear it in her voice. It was about 9 p.m., Tuesday, June 29. Prescott, senior vice-president of campaigns for the 11-million member Humane Society of the United States, values her reputation as a compassionate but tough lobbyist, but more than two decades of grief and hope was in...
Capitol Idea: What The Democrats Could Learn From BP
What a difference a summer — and $93 million in advertising — can make. Back in June, as BP oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico, it didn’t take a market research expert to figure out how much trouble the company was in. Anyone could drive by their neighborhood BP stations, left eerily vacant as consumers sought their gas elsewhere. Part driven by an organized boycott, and part simply due to general disgust with the company, for a time...
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