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• in Politics
  Hey Congress, Do You Need A Hearing Aid?
  The Nation is tired, frustrated, and perplexed. Our politicians do not have a clue.
  by joseacolon / on Nov 1, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “senate”

• Health Care Financing Reform: (71) Are Filibusters Constitutional?

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 134
       Absent the threat of a filibuster, health care reform would already have been enacted into law.  Are filibusters constitutional?      By itself, the "filibuster" is nothing more than an attempt to wear down the opposition through endless debate.  It is an annoying tactic whenever it is used by family ...
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• Editorial: Fly the Sleazy Skies

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  The Senate, which adopted reform relating to its members’ use of corporate jets overwhelmingly in 2007, should be furious at the F.E.C.’s recent subversion of this vital ethics reform.
  4 hours ago

• ETS bill won’t pass today

  
  Deus Lo Vult — Authority: 415
  And probably won’t pass for a while now. Watching the Senate session going on at the moment, Senate Majority Leader Chris Evans has entered into a tirade against the Liberals and their leadership fiasco and has been doing so for about half an hour now. And he hasn’t let the Nationals slip by – he just called ...
  5 hours ago

• Movement in the Liberal party

  
  Deus Lo Vult — Authority: 415
  Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has quit her post as parliamentary secretary. This was a big surprise as not only had I pegged her as a Turnbull supporter, but she had come out in favour of the ETS deal that had been hashed out with Labor on Tuesday. My guess is that she had her preselection threatened. She was probably ...
  6 hours ago

• 4 Vie for Kennedy’s Seat, but Only 3 Seek His Mantle

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Martha Coakley, who leads in the polls, is less inclined than her rivals to invoke the memory of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
  7 hours ago

• Abortion in Health Plan Tests a Pennsylvania Senator

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Senator Bob Casey, whose father is known for having fought abortion, is a pivotal if reluctant player in the debate on public financing of abortions in the health bill.
  7 hours ago

• WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO LOU DOBBS?

  
  Angry White Dude — Authority: 137
  LUIS DOBBS - AMIGO DE ILLEGALES! What has happened to Lou Dobbs? In the period of two weeks he he has gone from anti-illegal alien zealot to illegal alien champion. For years on the Communist News Network (CNN), Lou Dobbs was a loud voice against the unchecked sea of illegal aliens coming across our borders to ...
  8 hours ago

• Scientology a criminal organisation says Australian senator

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 136
  An Australian lawmaker has launched a scathing attack on the Church of Scientology saying, "Scientology is not a religious organization but a criminal organization that hides behind its so called religious beliefs," reports Ecumenical News International.In a speech to the Australian Senate on 17 November, Senator Nick ...
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• Splish Splash

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 140
  He’ll be taking a bath, long about 2012 . I swear you just can’t make this stuff up. Throughout the last three (at least) presidential campaigns Lou Dobbs and other right wingers have pounded on the Democratic candidate as a flip-flopper (conveniently ignoring the same but more egregious behavior on the part of ...
  9 hours ago

• Schumer: Gay marriage is goal in all 50 states

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  WASHINGTON (BP)--Delivering a more forthright speech than is often seen from politicians on the issue, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer -- the third ranking member of the Senate -- told a homosexual group last week that "gay marriage" supporters "must not rest" until it is legalized in all 50 states. Schumers comments came ...
  12 hours ago

• Despite pact, few blacks at Coast Guard school

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and graduation figures for blacks remain in single digits. ... Under a House bill, sponsored by Oberstar and Rep. Elijah ...
  12 hours ago

• Senator Harry ‘Hands Up’ Reid SEEKS to CURTAIL FREEDOM in PHONY HEALTHCARE BILL

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 496
  Submitted by: Marie Woods Words in the Senate Healthcare Bill RedState http://www.redstate.com/ Words Mean Things http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/11/24/words-mean-things/ Posted by hogan The Senate healthcare bill has numerous flaws – but you needn’t know the details to know that it erodes ...
  15 hours ago

• HAS The U.S. Congress LOST ITS MIND? Device IMPLANTATION!

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 496
  Submitted by: Marie Woods  hmmmmm microchip in bill? Section 2521 DOES CALL for IMPLANTATION of a DEVICE! Do as I did, WRITE and CALL your Senators and STOP THIS MADNESS! There is no way in this world that I am ever going to consent to that. Never. Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 4:24 PM   ...
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• Obama May Make a Stopover at Copenhagen Climate Change Summit with Promises of Emission Cut down

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  On his way to collect Nobel Peace Prize on 10th Dec President Obama is likely to make a quick stopover in Copenhagen on 9th Dec to attend international climate change meeting.  Not only would he be attending a meeting, he is expected to announce reduction of greenhouse gases by US in the coming years. Of course this ...
  16 hours ago

• The truth about health-care reform: the public option (2)

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 592
  By Michael J.W. Stickings Heres a third Q&A from the Senate Democratic Policy Committees Citizens Forum . I posted one on affordability on Monday and one on the public option on Tuesday. Curtis Macchioni (Livermore, CA): Why cant we have a public option? Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH): ...
  17 hours ago

• Thanksgiving news dump: Giannoulias releases tax returns

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 563
  Yesterday, Alexi Giannoulias, the leading Democratic contender for the US Senate seat currently held by Rod Blagojevich appointee Roland Burris, released his tax returns from the last four years. Many people were scurrying around on the day before Thanksgiving and not following the news, so The Boy Banker chose ...
  18 hours ago

• AP Declares Obama "Kenyan-born"!

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  (Oct. 14, 2009) — What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. What most people don’t know that is in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization. How so? Because in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by ...
  18 hours ago

• Australia: Senator Compares Gay Marriage to Incest

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  FAMILY First senator Steve Fielding has compared same-sex marriages to incest, as a Senate inquiry yesterday recommended against allowing gay marriage in Australia. A day after the first legally recognised same-sex civil ceremony in Canberra, Senator Fielding spoke out against allowing gay couples to wed. ...
  18 hours ago

• The Senate Health Bill: Not the Lesser of Evils

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 772
  No one knows for sure how Senator Reid’s health care bill (HR 3590) will impact any particular person or group, but this much is fairly certain: it will cause health insurance premiums to increase faster—not slower—than they would have otherwise. Even the Congressional Budget Office, Congress’s non-partisan ...
  18 hours ago

• Thanksgiving 2009 (UPDATED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 433
  In honor of the holiday I’m reposting one of my most popular posts ever, entitled Thank A Democrat:If you’re not a wealthy landowner and you vote, thank a Democrat: Andrew Jackson got rid of laws that discriminated against working-class Americans by restricting voting to wealthy landholders.If you’re a woman and ...
  19 hours ago

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