Today in Washington – September 22, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  September 22nd at 11:30 AM  | 

The House has 15 suspension votes scheduled for Wednesday.   The Senate will continue debate on the motion to proceed to S.3454, the Department of Defense Authorization bill, even though cloture failed yesterday.  Tomorrow, the Senate is expected to take up a motion on the DISCLOSE Act, S.3628. This is the same unconstitutional bill that received only 57 votes to shut down debate on July 27th.  The current expectation is that the House and Senate | Read More »

This Week in Washington – September 20, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  September 20th at 11:00 AM  | 

The House has 39 suspension votes scheduled for Wednesday and possible work final passage of TARP, Jr. (H.R. 5297 – the Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010), as amended by the Senate for this week.  The Senate will debate and vote on the motion to proceed to S.3454, the Department of Defense Authorization bill. There will be no roll call votes during Monday’s session of the Senate, but a | Read More »

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 »

Today in Washington – July 29, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 29th at 10:00 AM  | 

The Senate is debating a bill today that includes bailouts for small business, TARP, Jr.  The debate between right and left on this legislation is a great example of the big government versus small government approach to economic growth.  H.R.5297, officially titled the “Small Business Jobs” bill, will spend another day on the Senate floor as the left pushes to retain the TARP bailout model for | Read More »

This Week in Washington – July 26, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 26th at 11:00 AM  | 

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) is the Republican key for the Obama Administration to pass New START Treaty this year.  67 Senators are needed to pass any treaty, therefore the support of Republicans is necessary to pass START.  Republicans may want to stall passage of the treaty into the next Congress, because the New START Treaty may harm national security.  The Obama Administration may have signed a side agreement | Read More »

Today in Washington – July 22, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 10:20 AM  | 

So much for President Obama’s promises of economic stimulus.  The New York Times reports that moments after the President signed a new law to expand regulation over the financial sector, one business group complained that the new law will discourage job growth. The Business Roundtable complained in a statement that the law “takes our country in the wrong direction” and may discourage investment and job growth, echoing | Read More »

Today in Washington – June 11, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  June 11th at 11:25 AM  | 

Great news for sports fans — the World Cup kicked off today and the Celtics – Lakers series looks like it another classic.  You need some good sports news when most of the political news is bad in Washington.  The New York Times reports, “a government panel on Thursday essentially doubled its estimate of how much oil has been spewing from the out-of-control BP well, with | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 19, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 19th at 11:00 AM  | 

Elites in Washington are looking over their shoulders today.  There is a new Scarlet Letter in America and it is the Scarlet Letter “I” for incumbent.  If you are a Senate candidate running for re-election or a member of the House, both Republican and Democrat, you are nervous that the people of America will kick you out of office because you are part of the problem.  Rand Paul, | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 7, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 7th at 11:22 AM  | 

Elena Kagan — get to know the name.  The Senate and House have a no votes scheduled for today.  Yesterday the Senate completed work on another day of amending S.3217 the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010″ (also known as the ObamaBailout bill).  The buzz in Washington today is about Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, being President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court to replace Justice John | Read More »

Paul Krugman’s Filibuster Fear-Mongering

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  February 9th at 06:00 AM  | 

The latest in a long line of attacks on the filibuster comes from Paul Krugman of the New York Times.  Krugman, better known professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Captain of the Obama Administration Cheerleading Squad, wrote a column arguing that the filibuster is destroying America.  Krugman argued that filibustering Republicans, not international terrorists, not a nuclear weapon seeking Iran, not | 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 »