Mar 28, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Ministry of Propaganda's news wire service which operates under the generic moniker "Associated Press", of course went into full Obama Uber Alles mode yesterday, beginning each story about his outrageous recess appointments with the state-approved phrase "Fed up with delays, (Herr) Obama today appointed..." Republicans are pushing back on Democratic claims that they're stonewalling President ...
Continue ReadingMar 27, 2010 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Hill: The chairman of the House Democratic Caucus acknowledged on Friday his office had received multiple threats related to the passage of healthcare reform last week. However, Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) declined to provide details about the threats, noting only during an event at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center that his office has "reported them to ...
Continue ReadingMar 27, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
New York Times: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced a “major policy revision†that aims to give bicycling and walking the same policy and economic consideration as driving. “Today I want to announce a sea change,†he wrote on his blog last week. “This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of nonmotorized.†The new ...
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The Hill: This week’s healthcare votes in the Senate came with a successful but important lesson for Democratic leaders: Do not rely on the votes of Evan Bayh, Blanche Lincoln or Ben Nelson. During the two-day voting marathon on amendments to the healthcare reconciliation bill, the three Democratic centrists bucked their party more than any other of ...
Continue ReadingMar 27, 2010 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - Although he's had to wail far less time than President Bush, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment. The move immediately deepened the divide between the ...
Continue ReadingMar 27, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington (AP) - - As Congress enjoys a two-week vacation, thousands of Americans will begin to lose jobless benefits because lawmakers failed to resolve a dispute over how to pay for an extension of unemployment insurance. A current extension of jobless benefits for Americans who have been out of work for more than six months expires ...
Continue ReadingMar 27, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants House Democrats to go on offense during the critical two-week recess that begins this weekend. Members returning to their districts should tout the new healthcare law’s benefits to their constituents, according to the “recess packet†issued by Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) office this week and obtained by The Hill. “With the passage of health ...
Continue ReadingMar 27, 2010 13 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Well, it is called a tea party, now isn't it? In fact, 57% of the men are British, and 35% are Chinese. The rest are gay. It's just a couple jokes about tea parties and tea. Dont get all pissed off. Politico: When the tea party movement burst onto the scene last year to oppose ...
Continue ReadingMar 27, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: As Democrats tout the moral underpinnings of the federal health care system overhaul -- ensuring health care coverage for nearly all Americans -- one senator appeared to go off message when he said the legislation would address the "mal-distribution of income in America." After the Senate passed a "fix-it" bill Thursday to make changes to ...
Continue ReadingMar 26, 2010 24 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
What's the precise number of rounds should a man allow his children to be riddled with before he shoots back? Fox News: While Congress spent the last year debating how to provide health insurance for the uninsured, a little-known provision slipped into the heath care law that could cost some Americans upwards of $2,000 a year. The Class ...
Continue ReadingMar 26, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Sometimes truth is only as strange as fiction
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WASHINGTON, March 27 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A group of Democratic lawmakers said Friday they had sent a letter to President Barack Obama calling on the administration to tear down foreign nations' trade barriers to U.S. exports, including "unfair competition" in Japan's insurance market. In the letter dated Thursday, the 26 lawmakers belonging to the House Ways ...
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Washington (AP) - -A bullet that hit a window in Republican U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor's office building appears to have been fired randomly into the air, police said Thursday. Cantor announced at a Capitol Hill news conference Thursday that a shot had been fired into his Richmond campaign office. In addressing reporters, he denounced threats and vandalism ...
Continue ReadingMar 26, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: AT&T said Friday that it is preparing for President Obama's health care overhaul to cost the telecommunications giant an additional $1 billion in expenses in the first quarter, possibly forcing the company to cut benefits it offers to current and retired workers. AT&T is the latest and biggest company to account for the financial impact ...
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