UPDATED: Ezra Klein’s Blog Gets it Wrong on Recess Appointments
By: Mark Impomeni (Diary) | January 5th at 09:00 AM |
Ezra Klein responds via Twitter. See below. There’s so much wrong in this column from Ezra Klein’s blog at the Washington Post that it’s hard to know where to begin. Ezra is waxing partisan about the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to be President Obama’s head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, trying desperately to find some justification for this unprecedented flouting of the Constitution. | Read More »
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Lame Demagogue Session
By: Mark Impomeni (Diary) | December 2nd at 09:00 AM |
Republicans’ votes against Obamacare were actually votes in favor of retaining employer-based health care coverage…Rather, it is the Democrats who are tainted with the hypocrisy with which they accuse their opponents. Democrats have not reacted well to the “shellacking” voters administered to the party at the polls earlier this month. Far from doing any soul searching or introspection of any kind, Democrats embarked on a | Read More »
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DSCC Head Menendez is Not Helping
By: Mark Impomeni (Diary) | May 11th at 08:30 AM |
New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, has come out against Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. Menendez called on Major League Baseball to move the 2011 All-Star Game out of Phoenix. WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Menendez is urging the Major League Baseball Players’ Association to boycott next year’s All-Star Game in Phoenix over the recently passed Arizona law to crack down | Read More »
Democrats and Sotomayor Have a Bolton Problem
By: Mark Impomeni (Diary) | May 28th at 06:00 PM |
Jeffrey Rosen, writing in The New Republic, highlights President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s entry in the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary, which lists federal judges and rates them based upon the reviews of lawyers that have argued before or worked with each judge. Sotomayor, it seems, has a bad judicial temperament. “Sotomayor can be tough on lawyers, according to those interviewed. “She is | Read More »