Earthquake in Mass.?

Democrats Shaking As Lead Narrows
A Rasmussen poll, just out, shows the race to fill the vacant Massachusetts Senate seat narrowing. Democrat Martha Coakley still leads in the polls by a margin of 50% to 41% ahead of Republican challenger Scott Brown.  However, two months ago Coakley led by a comfortable 25 point margin. Among the [...]

Why Can’t I Find Reid’s Health Care Bill?

 
Senate Tricks Make it Hard to Find the Senate Health Care Bill
 
The Constitution requires that all revenue bills originate in the House of Representatives. This would make Harry Reid's health care bill unconstitutional from the very start, but as you may have already guessed, the Constitution is nothing more than an annoyance to Democrats. That's [...]

Senate Votes On Health Care Bill

Senate Cloture Vote Moves Health Scare Bill Forward
It may not be time kiss grandma and grandpa goodbye just yet, but it's getting closer. In a strictly party-line vote all Democrats and both Independents voted for cloture on the Obamacare bill. All Republicans voted no, except for George Voinovich (R-OH) who is either too cowardly or [...]

Update on David Hamilton Vote

Update: David F. Hamilton Confirmed to Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Before posting the results for the Hamilton confirmation, let's attempt to understand how this judge was confirmed by the senate with only a simple majority. Only yesterday we discovered that once the cloture motion successfully passed with full majority support, only a simple majority was [...]

Judge David Hamilton Senate Vote Scheduled

Obama Nominated Anti-Jesus, Pro-Abortion Judge to 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
We've already witnessed a number of controversial Czar appointments, and it appears the president is attempting to infiltrate our courts with far-left liberal activist judges as well. Keep in mind that since some judicial appointments are for life, an extensive vetting process for all nominees [...]

H. R. 3962 – Vote to Destroy American Healthcare Passes the House

There is no longer a need for Americans to fear creeping socialism in America. The days of creeping are over. It has now grabbed America by the throat and is gnawing at its jugular vein. Last night the Democrats in the House of Representatives voted 220 to 215 to socialize American medicine. Of course, they [...]

Transparency Means We Get to Read the Final Bill BEFORE the Vote; Right?

Still Waiting on Those Promises of Transparency

One of the many broken promises made by Obama during the '08 campaign was that his administration would be the most transparent in history. That sentiment became hugely popular among voters and was immediately echoed by other congressional Democrats, including House Speaker Pelosi, who vowed to end the "culture [...]

How Progressives Will Steal Votes with 2010 Census

2010 Census Won't Question Legal Status

Once every 10 years the federal government conducts a census, as mandated under Article 1 Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The express purpose of a decennial census is to apportion seats in the House of Representatives, as well as determine each state's assigned number of electoral college votes. With [...]

Democrats Insist on Healthcare Nuclear Option

Rangel Submits Nuclear Option Letter
On Thursday, October 15th, the majority of Democrats in the House Ways and Means Committee, under the leadership of Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, chose to disregard all amendments to H.R. 3200 being offered by Republicans. Rather than continuing debate, Rep. Rangel instead submitted a letter to the Budget Committee that has [...]

Baucus Bill Passes

Interested parties from both sides of the health care debate have eagerly anticipated today’s vote by members of the Senate Finance Committee on the Baucus bill.  Democrats outnumber Republicans in the Finance Committee 13-10, so a favorable Democratic outcome was all but certain. It was expected that today’s vote would be divided strictly upon party [...]

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