Democrats moving to distance themselves from Obama’s veterans policy.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 17th at 05:45 PM  | 

There’s been quite the flareup over the disastrous Shineski comments on potential changes in veteran policy, and the Democrats in Congress have wasted no time in distancing themselves from the administration on this one. As just one example, we have Senator James Webb*. When contacted regarding the recent CNN article indicating the possibility of a “controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related | Read More »

Murray (D) fattener to Obama-Reid-Pelosi debt bill blocked.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 3rd at 07:00 PM  | 

The final vote on the amendment – which would give 25 billion for supposed infrastructure renovations, while not defunding, say, a $30 million public parking garage in Auburn WA that’s going to benefit private transport providers – got shot down 58-39-02. This was a party-line vote: we picked up Landrieu, they got Bond and Specter, and Kennedy and Gregg sat it out (Kennedy is of | Read More »