Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Scott Nance
The forces that propelled a political breakdown between Democrats and Republicans which rendered the notion of bipartisanship nothing more than quaint and unattainable is so complete that it has moved on and metastasized.
The phenomena fueling the disunity now has manifested within each party, wearing away at the internal cohesion of each. For proof, just listen [...]
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Filed under: Bloggers, Congress, Democrats, Elections, Healthcare, House of Reps, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Liberals, Political News, Political Parties, Politics, Progressives, Republicans, Voters
Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Turning their backs to the howls of protest from the powerful health insurance lobby, more than 400 Democrats and Republicans voted to do away with the antitrust exemption the insurance industry has enjoyed for 65 years.
In an almost-unheard-of bipartisan move on the issue of healthcare, House members overwhelmingly voted, 406 to 19, to approve H.R. [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
The Massachusetts special election to fill the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat is just a mere hours away and tensions are high here in Massachusetts. There’s a lot at stake for Democrats and Republicans who are very much in the minority here have found a candidate who they feel is a winner. needless to say [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Michael Stickings
A new CNN poll finds that Bush is “the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago,” with disapproval ratings above 70 this year.
Which makes him more unpopular than Nixon… and Truman.
Yes, yes, I know, look what happened to Truman: Vindicated by history, now considered to be one of [...]
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Filed under: George W. Bush, Michael Stickings, Polls
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Two days after the Bail Out Bill failed in the House, the Senate plans to vote on the “$700 billion bank rescue plan,” on Wednesday evening. The Senate Bill “adds new provisions – including raising the FDIC insurance cap to $250,000 from $100,000 – and will be attached to an existing revenue bill that the [...]
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Filed under: Congress, Credit Crisis, Democrats, Economic News, Economy, House of Reps, In The News, John McCain '08, Massachusetts, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Republicans, Sen. Harry Reid, Senate, Wall Street
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Ted Kennedy returned to the floor of the Senate today for the 4:00 PM vote on Medicare. Kennedy was accompanied by members of his family, John Kerry and Barack Obama. He received a standing ovation as he “walked through a wall of applause,” to “cast a dramatic, decisive vote on long-stalled Medicare legislation.”
“Aye,” the 76-year-old Kennedy [...]
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Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Healthcare, In The News, John Kerry, Liberals, Massachusetts, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Senate
Posted on May 25th, 2008 by Gilbert Martinez
Note: This is something I wrote in 2004 and I reproduce intact without any changes. It is in line with my thinking on Progressive Blogosphere 2.0 and defining a 21st Century Liberalism. I never finished it so it’s not my best work. But you get the idea.
The past three years has seen the emergence of [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Democrats, George W. Bush, Gilbert Martinez, Political News, Politics, Republicans
Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s been a lot of news I haven’t had a chance to cover today, so here’s a few links and musings on it all.
Hillary Clinton Closed Out the Petraeus/Odierno Hearing with “Key Withdrawal Questions” today, adnvancing the “cause of Iraq withdrawal and redeployment.”
NBC News had a brief interview with Senator Ted Kennedy as he and [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The reactions are pouring in on the news of Senator Kennedy’s diagnosis that he has a malignant brain tumor. CNN reports that “Senate Democrats and Republicans were having their weekly closed policy lunches in the Capitol when the news broke.”
When Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told his Democratic colleagues about Kennedy, there was “stunned silence,” [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
As I expected she would… Today in Rapid City, SD, Hillary Clinton went to bat for Barack Obama in the wake of Bush’s comparison of him to Neville Chamberlain, Ken Vogel reports (via Politico).
She told reporters:
President Bush’s comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, George W. Bush, In The News, John Kerry, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries
