Today in Washington – May 5, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | May 5th at 09:21 AM |
Yesterday was yet another day in the Senate of gridlock on the ObamaBailout bill and today will probably be more of the same. A Senate committee will be holding hearings today on ways to chip away at the 2nd Amendment. Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) made a splash yesterday when he circulated legislation to expand the conditions for the government to strip U.S. Citizens of Citizenship. The | Read More »
ObamaCare Nuclear Option Deal Close
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | March 11th at 06:00 AM |
Behind closed doors, the Obama Administration, House and Senate Democrat leaders are cutting a secret deal on ObamaCare. They have come up with a way to pass the Senate version of ObamaCare in the House without any House members having to vote directly on the bill. Now The Hill is reporting that the House and Senate Parliamentarians are helping to advise Democrats on how to | Read More »
Obama Pushes Health Care Nuclear Option
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | March 3rd at 12:00 PM |
President Obama is advocating the use of the budget reconciliation process to pass ObamaCare through the House and Senate. This procedure also referred to as the ObamaCare Nuclear Option and the Health Care Nuclear Option because the liberals are using this procedure as a means to get around the filibuster in the Senate. This same President Obama who opposed the Nuclear Option in 2005 as a back bench Senator.
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Health Care Nuclear Option Shows Contempt for Public Opinion
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | February 23rd at 10:00 AM |
ObamaCare is not popular. The people don’t want it. The people have rejected it. Yet President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are going to ram it down the throats of the American people using a special Congressional procedure that avoids a filibuster in the Senate – The Health Care Nuclear Option. The Obama Administration and Leaders in | Read More »
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Filibuster “Reform” On Senate Agenda
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | January 23rd at 05:00 AM |
The ink is yet to dry on Senator-elect Scott Brown’s certification to be the 41st vote against ObamaCare and the left is readying a multi-pronged attack on the filibuster. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) have opened up a front in both the House and the Senate to lower the threshold for Senate leadership to stifle debate and amendment. Don’t be fooled. | Read More »
Obamacare Ping Pong
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | January 5th at 05:00 AM |
The left is discussing the breaking news that the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate plan on using a “Ping Pong” strategy to pass Obamacare. This strategy avoids a conference committee and allows the liberal leaders to put themselves behind closed doors, in secret, to write an update to Obamacare. Yet again, the elites in Washington exclude the American public and all members of the minority | Read More »
The Filibuster is Essential for Democracy
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | December 26th at 03:00 PM |
The filibuster is essential for democracy, because it protects Americans from a tyranny of the majority, whether that majority be Democrats or Republicans. Right now, liberals are angry at Congress because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was not allowed to steamroll the minority party, and moderates within his own caucus, to pass a version of ObamaCare with a public option. The left wants to exterminate | Read More »
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Secret Vapor Conference on ObamaCare
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | December 24th at 07:17 PM |
Now that ObamaCare has passed the Senate, it is time for Democrat leaders to retire behind closed doors to craft another secret vapor deal. The media, Republicans, and average Americans are banned from this meeting to determine the future of health care. Democrat leaders will secretly craft an ObamaCare bill that they think can pass in both the House and Senate. This is yet another example of the | Read More »
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Democrats to Arrest Senator Burris?
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | January 3rd at 03:53 PM |
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s pick of Roland Burris to take President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat will face armed police officers if he shows up to be sworn into the Senate next week. According to CNN, Senate Democrats are prepared to deploy the Capitol Police to stop Senator Burris from entering the Senate chamber. This is the same Senate that is possibly going to seat funny | Read More »