A moderately liberal Democraticly-themed blog
It seems Obama is going to have a sitdown with DNC Chairman and former governor Tim Kaine to try to persuade him to run for the Virginia Senate seat that Jim Webb is leaving in 2012. Over the weekend, it was reported that Kaine was “not interested” in running for Senate, which is kind of [...]
Of course, no Democrat (that I’m aware of) has announced intentions to run for Jim Webb’s senate seat now that Webb has announced that he isn’t running for re-election. However, the top two names out there are Kim Kaine, former governor of Virginia, and Tom Perriello, former VA-05 representative. Probably not shockingly, this is turning [...]
Yes…that evil of evil…that program that everyone is rioting on the streets about. The program that democrats and republicans are united in gnashing teeth over! The one! The only!… Presidential Election Campaign Fund: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell introduced legislation Wednesday to save taxpayers $617 million over 10 years by ending taxpayer funding of the [...]
I watched most of the first six hours of Senator Sanders’ 8 1/2 hour speaking marathon (I refuse to call it a filibuster because it wasn’t), and while I think he makes some very important points about income equality, why the Bush tax cuts are bad, and on several other issues, I think one important [...]
In theory, passing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in the Senate should be a piece of cake. With Pryor coming on board, and other iffy Senators such as Webb and Nelson seemingly on board, the only democrat really left out there that seems to be a question is newly elected ultra-conservadem Joe Manchin. Meanwhile, on the [...]
It is no surprise that the GOP in the Senate (plus 5 Democrats, four who preferred the “Millionaire option” and Feingold who wants everything to expire) voted down the proposal to extend tax cuts for only income under $250k 53-36. An alternative only expiring cuts for those over $1 million also failed by the same [...]
There is a major push to try to get tax cuts passed through the lame duck Congress before the end of the year, minus any tax cuts for the rich going on on the liberal blogs and in other quarters. Since the Democrats still hold both Houses, this might sound like a decent plan at [...]
So yesterday saw the bliggest flip of seats in the US House of Representatives by any party in over 60 years, the largest flip of seats toward the GOP in over 70 years, and the biggest Republican majority in the House in 80 years, and the most seats flipped by the GOP in an election [...]
