In yet another installment of the “New Tone Rules Only Apply to Republicans” series, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the floor of the Senate on Wednesday to accuse “Republicans” of using the payroll tax cut bill to extort the Democrat majority for the right to personally poison the American people. Yes, you heard that right: the Senate Majority Leader took a page | Read More »
See it for yourself below, as Bill Burton, a spokesman for Barack Obama’s White House, says: I don’t think that Speaker Pelosi was just claiming that people were wearing swastikas [at health care town hall meetings]; people are showing up to events with swastikas, dressed up as Hitler, with signs invoking Nazi Germany, so that’s not something that’s being made up. Video: The DC Examiner‘s | Read More »
The morning after President Barack Obama (D-IL) pushed back prime time network programming to make his (weak, unpopular, and factually-challenged) case for an immediate overhaul of the health care system, fellow Democrat and Senate Super-Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) pulled the rug out from under his former incredibly junior colleague, declaring that the Senate would hold the proposed overhaul legislation over the August recess and | Read More »
This morning, a very senior contact within the House GOP informed me that Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV) met at length last night to put together the House/Senate conference report on the “stimulus” package. Only Democratic conference committee members were informed of the meeting and permitted to attend. The purpose behind the meeting was apparently to produce a conference report on the over | Read More »
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat-Electable, Nevada) came out today and bragged that some Senate Republicans would vote for the awful so-called “stimulus” bill despite the fact that: (A) It’s a massive, wasteful pork-barrel bill that won’t stimulate anything or anyone (except those who get really, really excited at the prospect of huge transfers of borrowed cash from larger governments to smaller governments); and (B) | Read More »
At 7:30PM Wednesday, the Senate will hold roll call votes on six amendments and pieces of legislation. Those items are as follows: Motion to concur on the House message, HR 2095, Rail Safety Dorgan amendment relating to HR 7081, the US-India Nuclear agreement Bingaman amendment relating to HR 7081, the US-India Nuclear agreement Passage of HR 7081, the US-India Nuclear agreement Dodd amendment to HR | Read More »
“The only argument Reid could muster against Coburn…was a pathetic claim that the Senate does not actually spend federal money, but only authorizes funding.” “Senator Train Wreck,” also known as Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), was the subject of two not-so-fawning stories this morning — one in the New York Times and one in the Washington Post — addressing both his reputation as a stickler on | Read More »
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