OMNIBUS BILL CREATES 12% SPENDING INCREASE
U.S. Senate Democrats railroaded through trillion dollar omnibus appropriations bill on Sunday that conservatives are calling little more than a continuation of the federal government’s binge spending.
One Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham, called the bill “a disaster.”
“At a time when most Americans are [...]
SANFORD URGES SC DELEGATION TO OPPOSE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE
For the first time in the health care debate, Congressional Democrats appear to be willing to pass insurance reform legislation that doesn’t include a so-called “public option.”
On Thursday, lawmakers said they had reached a tentative deal to [...]
DEMOCRAT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 4 STATES GET EARLY VOTES, OTHERS GET MORE DELGATES
After the messy leapfrogging between states that marred the last presidential primaries, Republican and Democrat officials are taking preventative measures to see that 2012 goes much smoother.
While Republicans are still negotiating their calendar, Democrats appear to [...]
U.S. Senate Democrats struck some sort of deal on the “public option” portion of President Barack Obama’s socialized medicine plan Tuesday night, but media reports coming out of the nation’s capital weren’t exactly singing off the same sheet of music when it came to the details [...]
Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham has vast crossover appeal, but he also has among the lowest approval ratings of any senator within his own party, according to polling conducted by Raleigh, N.C.-based Public Policy Polling.
READ THE POLLGraham has worked with Democrats to seat judges to the chagrin of some [...]
The South Carolina Progressive Democrats of America is proud to announce the following endorsements:
For United States Senate Mike Ruckes, a PDA member from Summerville SC. Mike is a dedicated to progressive values and will fight for those values in the United States Senate. We urge all South Carolinians to [...]
Today the Republicans in the US Senate failed in advancing one of their efforts to improve health care for Americans: eliminating $40 billion dollars from existing programs for giving the elderly in-home assistance so they don't have to move into nursing home farms.' [...] 
Max Baucus, the wholly-owned senator from the insurance industry, turns out to have also been the Democrats' answer to his Nevada colleague, Jon Ensign. Well, except for the preening, Pharisee in the Temple religiosity and Senator Coburn acting as bagman.' [...] 
There’s a ton of people running for South Carolina governor these days. About five on each side, Democrats and Republicans. Now, before the New Year, we have a write-in candidate, believe it or not.
This guy is named Morgan Bruce Reeves, and he played football.
Reeves says [...]
U.S. Rep. John Spratt was one of at least sixty democrats in the House of Representatives to request a “pass” on voting in favor of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s socialized medicine bill, sources tell FITS. If true, this would mean he was one of roughly [...]
U.S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is said to have received roughly sixty written requests from House Democrats asking for permission to vote against a controversial socialized medicine proposal – or twenty more requests than she could handle.
That’s when a pitched battle allegedly began within [...]
