edited by: Chris Liebenthal,
Wisconsin Editor
They're fine with it. As long as it gets them a vote.The Assembly Special Committee on Ethics and Standards met today and Representative Nass regards the Democrats on the committee’s failure to accomplish anything today displays a secret agenda of keeping Wood in office so he is able to vote in their favor. Rep. Wood was recently arrested in October for [...]
Heh.
After months of turmoil, President Barack Obama is calling Senate Democrats to the White House to say it’s time to come together and pass legislation embracing a wholesale remodeling of America’s health care system.
The meeting set for Tuesday afternoon comes a day after Senate Democratic leaders suggested [...]
It's been said by some of the senior strategists at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) were thinking that if as many as 10 more Democrats -- beyond the six or eight who already had -- they would be able to make next November very interesting given the current political [...]
Tell me again why this is a good idea?
Democrats trying to push President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul plan through the Senate got a sober warning Friday that costs will keep going up and proposed Medicare savings may harm the program.
A [...]
This appears to be movement on the part of Democrats regarding Cap and Trade.Republicans on the legislative jobs committees are under-whelmed by the Democrats new-found willingness to talk about job creation. With the changes that were passed in the 2009-11 state budget, their latest efforts are too little, too late.
Read more from Rep. Rich Zipperer and Sen. Ted Kanavas here.
With 60 votes needed to pass the Nelson/Hatch amendment to Obamacare to prohibit huge federal subsidies for abortion, it is not surprising that the amendment failed on a 54 to 45 vote. Seven Democrats voted in favor of Nelson/Hatch and two Republicans opposed the pro-life amendment.
Not at all surprising is [...]
Expand Medicare!
That’s the latest non public, public option. Even Politico.com recognizes that this new plan is really the “public option” with a new name:
To win over liberals disappointed at losing the public option, Democrats would allow older Americans starting at age 55 to buy into Medicare, the popular program [...]
