Tag: Democrats

Breaking: William Daley Resigning As White House Chief Of Staff

Filed in National by on January 9, 2012 4 Comments

MSNBC just cut in to report that William Daley will be resigning as the White House Chief of Staff.  Not sure what this means.

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DCCC Ad On Medicare

Filed in National by on April 20, 2011 14 Comments

The DCCC has a new ad to run in Republican Congressional districts about Medicare.

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Tone Deaf

Filed in Delaware, National by on December 13, 2010 51 Comments

I’m really not certain if writing this post is worth it.  I’m also not certain I want to go down this road again.  Truth is… I’m weary.  Even sadder, I’m tuning out. First, this isn’t a post about policy – it’s about tone. On that note, I have a few questions for certain Progressives/Liberals/Democrats: What […]

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Notochord* Detected

Filed in National by on November 19, 2010 6 Comments

Steny Hoyer says that Congress will definitely vote on extending the tax cuts on incomes up to $250,000 during the lame duck session.

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Even A Stopped Clock…

Filed in National by on November 5, 2010 6 Comments

Time‘s Joe Klein writes about the foolishness of Blue Dog Democrats.

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Time To Rethink Party Switches?

Filed in National by on June 2, 2010 18 Comments
Time To Rethink Party Switches?

Two prominent party switchers have gone down to defeat in this election cycle. Republican turned Democrat Arlen Specter was upset by Joe Sestak in the PA-Sen primary and last night Democrat turned Republican Parker Griffith was defeated in the AL-05 Republican primary by Mo Brooks (decisively enough in a 3-way race that no runoff will be needed).

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The Democratic Party Could Do A Public Service

Filed in National by on April 27, 2010 6 Comments

We’ve all been watching recently the slow and painful progress of the financial reform bill. Yesterday the Republicans hung together to block debate from even beginning on the Senate bill. Mitch McConnell used his usual dishonesty in explaining why Republicans were blocking the bill: “A vote for cloture is a vote that says, ‘We’re done […]

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Democrats To Get All Vincent Van Gogh About Earmarks

Filed in National by on March 10, 2010 2 Comments
Democrats To Get All Vincent Van Gogh About Earmarks

Ethically speaking it hasn’t been a great year for Democrats in Washington, but with the ouster of Massa and other corrections of mis-steps, Congressional Democrats are continuing down the path of ethics reform. One item ripe for massive reform are earmarks. House Democrat leaders are actively working on ways to reform —even temporarily halt — […]

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Highlights Of The Health Care Reform Summit

Filed in National by on February 25, 2010 18 Comments

Daily Kos compiled a video of some of the highlights from Democratic legislators during today’s health care summit. I’d like to add, Louise Slaughter rocks!

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“It’s Worth Thinking About”

Filed in National by on February 4, 2010 1 Comment

At yesterday’s Q&A with Democrats Obama delivered a line that should have every Democrat sitting up and taking notice.  If you watch the video below one thing stands out – Obama is not laughing. “There was apparently a headline after the Massachusetts election. The Village Voice announced that Republicans win a 41-59 majority. It’s worth […]

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UPDATED: More Obama Q&A

Filed in National by on February 3, 2010 43 Comments

Tomorrow morning, the president will be doing a televised Q&A with the Senate Democratic caucus.

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“When Democrats Retreat, You Better Watch Out Or You Will Get Run Over”

Filed in National by on January 22, 2010 19 Comments

Those are John Cole’s words, which go a long way in describing my feelings about the chances of HCR getting better and not worse.  Yesterday, in one of John’s typically snarky posts he asked:  My only question- which house blue dog will be the first to introduce a bill extend the Bush tax cuts to […]

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Breaking: Delaware Legislative Travel

Filed in National by on October 18, 2009 54 Comments

Update: The News Journal published Ginger Gibson’s article today, “Legislator’ travel tabs often missing”. State lawmakers can travel when and where they want on the taxpayer’s tab. snip Getting into a jet at taxpayers’ expense isn’t difficult in either chamber. In fact, no one interviewed for this article could recall a time when a travel […]

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