Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Healthcare reform legislation in the Senate already is very bipartisan, according to a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Refuting one of the key charges Republicans have leveled against healthcare reform — that Senate Democrats have crafted a highly partisan bill devoid of GOP ideas – spokesman Jim Manley says the package more than 145 [...]
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Filed under: Congress, Conservatives, Democrats, Healthcare, In The News, N.Y. Times, Obama Administration, Political News, Political Parties, Politics, Progressives, Republicans, Sen. Harry Reid, Senate
Posted on February 1st, 2010 by Berry Craig
The union-haters must still be in hog heaven over an AFL-CIO-sponsored poll that showed most Massachusetts union households supported Republican Scott Brown over union-endorsed Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
The margin was 49 to 46 percent. The numbers remind me again of Pogo’s apt observation: “We have [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on April 21st, 2009 by Hart Williams
According to Mark Penn, writing in the Wall Street Journal — and how’s that for strange bedfellows? Penn was Hillary Clinton’s 2008 chief strategist — thar’s gold in them thar blogs.
Yee Haw.
Penn writes (although Wright doesn’t pen):
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Tags: According To Mark, America Today, American Adults, Chief Strategist, Computer Programmers, Consumer Electronics Show, Half A [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
From the Wall Street Journal:
Investigators examining last week’s Continental Connection plane crash have gathered evidence that pilot commands — not a buildup of ice on the wings and tail — likely initiated the fatal dive of the twin-engine Bombardier Q400 into a neighborhood six miles short of the Buffalo, N.Y., airport, according to people familiar [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Michael Stickings
Not that we need more evidence that Fox News is in bed with the Republican Party, that the former is one of the latter’s key media outlets, a sort of GOP Pravda, but this is hilarious:
During the February 10 edition of Fox News’ Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott claimed that “the Senate is expected to [...]
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Filed under: Fox News, Michael Stickings, News Media, Republicans
Posted on October 16th, 2008 by Hart Williams
Hi there. Hart Williams here. I am guest-blogging for a few days at the kind invitation of Pamela Leavey, and it’s good to see you.
Here’s something that you might have seen and not quite noticed. …
Let’s pass over the Rovian Campaign of McCain’s dual smoke screen/smears, the ACORN kerfuffle to mask REAL voter disenfranchisement, and [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Hart Williams, In The News, John McCain '08, Pamela Leavey, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Via Politico:
After a segment with NBC’s Chuck Todd ended today, Republican consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan were caught on a live mike ridiculing the choice of Sarah Palin.
Watch here:
Those talking heads and guests will never learn… As Politico notes, “Noonan’s blunt call contrasted with her conflicted column today saying Palin [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, In The News, John McCain '08, Obama-Biden 08, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, RNC, Republicans, TV
Posted on September 13th, 2007 by Hart Williams
Did someone snooze through math class? The reporter for the Wall Street Journal is so eager to spin a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll for Bush that it verges on lying.
But what’s surprising about that?
Today’s WSJ, in an article by John Harwood starts out:
Public Gives Bush Slight Reprieve
U.S. War Dissatisfaction Eases a Bit,
But Opinion [...]
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Filed under: Politics, Polls, Republicans
Posted on September 5th, 2007 by Hart Williams
Or, Just Like Hunting for Quayle With Dick Cheney …
How do you spell “conflict of interest”?
What they wanted to do was to get that “surge” going. But, as noted in “Meet The New Baghdad Bob,” William Kristol WAS Vice President Dan “Potatoe” Quayle’s Chief of Staff for Bush I, before he sold himself to Rupert [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, Iraq, Political News Shows, Politics
Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Hart Williams
