On Thursday, the Senate will consider Senator Roy Blunt’s amendment to the Senate version of the highway bill. It is the only amendment the Senate GOP will offer up. On its surface, it is a good amendment. It will allow religious employers to opt out of the new Obamacare mandate on contraception and abortifacient drugs. But strategically, it is another lame effort by Senator Mitch | Read More »
[UPDATE:] John Thune’s office is denying the report and says Thune supports the earmarks moratorium. That’s good news, but then we’re left wondering why multiple Senators and the campaigns of two Senators-Elect would be under the distinct impression that John Thune was directly soliciting their opposition to the moratorium. It is a secret ballot after all. —————– Sources in the United States Senate tell me | Read More »
Senate sources confirm to me this evening that Senator Mitch McConnell and his leadership team are trying to scuttle Republican efforts to force a vote on repeal of the entire health care legislation during the reconciliation process. I’m told reliably that moderate Republican senators who voted against Obamacare in December do not want to vote against it again because it would just be “symbolic”. McConnell | Read More »
On Thursday night and Friday morning, I made the case that Mitch McConnell is a cancer on the Senate Republican caucus. By Friday afternoon, I was called and informed that McConnell had decided, in fact, to take a lead and try to get Republicans to all protest Reid’s Sunday vote by not showing up. Sunday came and, in fact, a majority of the GOP not | Read More »
Here’s where I am on the House and Senate GOP leadership races. The whole lot of them should be rounded up and hanged. Slowly. When you lose two elections in a row, you pull out the ginsu knife and go for seppuku. Honor demands it. Real leaders know when to get out of the way. People too comfortable to be effective do not. That said, | Read More »
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