Prime Cuts of Bluegrass Volume 66 (Rare CD Featuring 15 Tracks from these Artists: Rick Lang & Friends, Dierks Bentley & Harley Allen, Stoney Point Quartet, Alan Laney, Charlie Walker, Jeannie Seely, Uncle Bud's LectroWood Experience, Williams & Clark Expedition, None of the Above, Tommy Edwards, Donna Hughes, Johnny Greer, Virginia Run, Poplar Hollow)
DOWNLOADS: (107) PLAYS: (221) (h/t CSPANjunkie ) Donna Edwards tells her story of being a young mother without health insurance and how she is paying America back with her vote for health care reform. Edwards: I collapsed and was taken to an emergency room. Without health care I was treated as one of those uncompensated and now it's time for me to pay the American people back with a vote for comprehensive...
Last night Ken and I were talking about the pointlessness of speeches on the House floor. I had been telling him how moved I was by Donna Edwards' very personal explanation of why she was voting for health care reform. We both marveled at how shamelessly one well-fed Republican zombie after another got up to the podium to recite identical , canned talking point meant only to distort facts and frighten...
Maryland's congressional delegation voted 6 to 2 Saturday night in favor of passage of the landmark health-care reform bill, with only first-term Democrat Frank Kratovil breaking with his party and voting no. In a statement, Kratovil called the bill too expensive and said: "I was not able to support the bill before Congress today because I do not believe it meets my criteria for a sustainable...
On a party line vote with one RINO in favor, the Neo-com Democrats pass PelosiCare (the House version of Obamacare). Here are the miscreants that will rob the elderly of medicare and create a death panel so they wont need medicare: From the NY Times Voted YEA Neil Abercrombie D HI-1 Gary L. Ackerman D NY-5 Robert E. Andrews D NJ-1 Michael Arcuri D NY-24 Xavier Becerra D CA-31 Howard L. Berman D CA-28...
Angry? Let them know it! U.S. House of Representatives Maryland Rep. Frank Kratovil, Jr. (D-1st) 314 Cannon House Office Building (202) 225-5311; 225-0254 Centreville: (443) 262-9136 Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-2nd) 1630 Longworth House Office Building (202) 225-3061; 225-3094 Timonium: (410) 628-2701 Rep. John Sarbanes (D-3rd) 426 Cannon House Office Building (202) 225-4016; 225-9219 Towson: (410)...
In the 2006 cycle the candidate who attracted the most support from Blue America donors was Ned Lamont, with his campaign that served notice on the Democratic Establishment that the grassroots was unwilling to just eat up whatever crap it was served up from Inside the Beltway hacks. Blue America raised over $77,000 for him in our first year in action. The following cycle, saw another inspiring progressive...
Democratic lawmakers including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are adamantly pushing back against reports that she does not have the necessary votes to pass a robust public option and is poised to abandon the provision. "Speculation that a final decision has been made about the public option are not accurate," read a statement issued by the Speaker's deputy communications director Nadeam Elshami....
The White House and Senate need to realize that not only will pointless concessions to irrelevant Republican legislators jeopardize the national party, it may land them with a crop of new colleagues mandated to take an even harder line than the current progressive caucus. Which means that when Republicans take the Senate with 42-45 seats, (if 41 Republicans was a majority in the Senate, more than that...
"Secret Agent Editors The Obama scandals bring a new era of opacity at the New York Times. " WSJ's The Best of the Web Today Insightful and amusing post about the NYTimes failing to be even a semi-objective news source. "Obama and Acorn Is there a case for a special prosecutor? " WSJ's James Taranto "Independent prosecutor for ACORN" Chicago Tribune "Inside the Glorious...
That was fast : It used to be that lawmakers were coy about any ideas they had about heading for K Street, waiting until their terms ended before announcing they were beginning a more lucrative career. But in recent years, members of Congress planning to become lobbyists have not been able to wait. In fact, when Florida Republican Mel Martinez this week accepted a position with the mega-lobbying and...
Once the Senate votes on whatever health care non-reform piece of shit Harry Reid thinks will annoy repugs the least, the real fight is going to take place in the Conference Committee, where Democratic representatives chosen by Nancy Pelosi and repug-fellators chosen by Reid will hash out a compromise between the Senate's zillion-dollar giveaway to Big Insurance and Big Pharma and the House's public...
I have seen dozens of comments from single-payer activists from around the progressive blogosphere asking why House Progressives "pre-compromised" on single-payer and drew the line on the public option. This question has an easy answer, and does not require much research. They voted to do that : In March, Grijalva did something unusual for the progressive caucus: he began organizing. Caucus...
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