Today in Washington – August 10, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | August 10th at 10:58 AM |
Yesterday in Texas, Democrat candidate for governor, Bill White, boycotted President Obama’s trip to Texas. The President better not bank on many photo ops with Democrat candidates in Red State America. The New York Times reports: President Obama shared an enthusiastic handshake and a hearty clap on the shoulder with this state’s Republican governor, Rick Perry, when Air Force One touched down here on Monday. But | Read More »
Today in Washington – August 4, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | August 4th at 10:15 AM |
Thank you Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) for issuing the report, Summertime Blues. I have been laughing for one whole day after reading some of the project that President Obama considers “stimulus.” One needs to ask the ever smug Paul Krugman over at the New York Times to explain how $144,541 of your tax dollars spent to study how “monkeys react under the influence | Read More »
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The Foundry,
Tom Coburn
This Week in Washington – August 2, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | August 2nd at 11:00 AM |
Many liberals are fleeing President Obama. Gallup has the President at 45% approval and 47% disapproval for a -2% gap today. In a story titled “Democrats Scatter Monday as Obama Comes to Town,” on the NBC affiliate for Atlanta, GA, further evidence is provided of this emerging phenomena: If you think this will be a time for Democrats running for office to rally around the chief executive- -you probably | Read More »
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Land and Water Conservation Fund,
New START Treaty,
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Senator Ben Nelson,
Speaker Pelosi,
The Foundry,
The Hill,
United States Senate
Today in Washington – July 30, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | July 30th at 10:55 AM |
No roll call votes in Senate today. Cloture on TARP, Jr, H.R. 5297, was not invoked yesterday on a 58-42 vote. The Senate will have a cloture vote next week on the motion to concur with an amendment to H.R. 1586, the FAA Reauthorization bill. Reid is using the FAA bill as a shell to move this amendment to add $10 billion for education funds and a Medicaid funding provision. The nomination of anti-Second Amendment nominee Elena | Read More »