edited by: Chris Liebenthal,
Wisconsin Editor
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 [...]
It's not a question if Democrats won't play it, it's a question as to when the voters will get tired of hearing them blame someone else for them not doing anything.
Via Public Policy Polling's blog.
Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama's declining support is that just 50% of voters now' [...]
