WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Congressman Rodney Alexander is urging residents to send holiday mail to ensure that soldiers and veterans in the United States and around the world will receive heartfelt wishes during the holidays.
Emptysuit (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
House Vote 887 – H.R.3962: On Passage Affordable Health Care for America Act Result: Passed by 5 votes Date of Vote: November 7, 2009 Roll Call Number: 887 Yes Votes (220) No Votes (215) Member Party Dist. Member Party Dist. Neil Abercrombie D HI-1 Robert B. Aderholt R AL-4 Gary L. Ackerman D NY-5 Todd Akin R MO-2 Robert E. Andrews D NJ-1 Rodney Alexander R LA-5 Michael Arcuri D NY-24 Jason Altmire...
Pounding The Rock (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The D-League draft is Thursday night and the Toros are hosting a draft party at the Hyatt in Austin. The party starts at 6:00 . Some of the Toros roster is already set. To almost no one's surprise, Curtis Jerrells is on the squad. Draft Express (as always, the greatest) had the lowdown on the squad. All the other teams are listed. You should check it out. There are some interesting names. Here are...
PawPaw's House (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Tip O'Neal once said that all politics is local, and there is certainly some truth to that statement. We've got gubernatoral races in New Jersey and Virginia, and special congressional elections in some other states. Lots of folks are saying that if the Republicans do well in those elections, then maybe the party has turned the corner. Others disagree. Most famously the Associated Press . For Republicans,...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I don't know a single progressive that wants to see conservative Democrat Bill Owens in Congress. He's likely to turn out to be as disappointing as Scott Murphy, a businessman we were assured believes in Democratic values. Murphy's voting record puts him so far at the bottom of the barrel that there's a Republican, Louisiana's Rodney Alexander, voting more consistently with Nancy Pelosi than he does--...
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Ok I think it’s weird too- but here it is: September 17, 2009 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—Extensions of Remarks E2301-2302 A TRIBUTE IN RECOGNITION OF PROFESSOR GEZA VERMES HON. RODNEY ALEXANDER OF LOUISIANA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, September 17, 2009 Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Professor Geza Vermes, an internationally renowned biblical scholar....
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Indiana bigot Mike Pence blew the whistle on this one. A couple weeks ago we looked at how the Republican obsession with openly gay people and the Republican obsession with "czars" was degenerating into a jihad against Kevin Jennings, the Assistant Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. Bigot extraordinaire Steve King of Iowa wrote a...
Notes on Social Security Reform (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The Social Security Administration today officially announced what had long been suspected: that no Cost of Living Adjustment to retirement, disability and survivors benefits will be paid next year. As has been discussed here ad nauseum , the Consumer Price Index dropped rapidly after the last COLA was calculated in October of 2008, so overall prices today are still below that level. Instead of paying...
Open Left (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Rand Paul is in a reasonably close primary for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. According to the two polls on the campaign, he trails Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson by an average of 13% . With the money bombs that the Paulites will send his way, with the teabaggers looking to become a force in Republican primaries , and with the general anti-establishment mood in the...
Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Contentions has a good article on how the blue dog conservative Democrats are getting very nervous . Here is a part: Politically vulnerable Democrats say Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House leaders aren’t offering them the protection from tough votes that they did in the last Congress. Conservative Democrats fear that dozens of members could be swept out of their districts in the midterm election...
Right in a Left World (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Throughout August and September, we heard Democrats crying how Republicans have no alternative to their raping of the health care system of America. In a "Fact-Check" Card issued to officials and made avaiable to followers, the claim was made, Republicans "have refused to release a plan to the public." Introduced on July 30, 2009, prior to recess, was HR 3400 - Small Business Health...
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
I was reading an article that claimed the only industries exempt from government price fixing oversight were the insurance companies and major league baseball. Turns out it's true. Bills were introduced in both the House and Senate in 2007, but never became law. Read the press release below, and commit it to memory when Bobby runs in 2012. I don't know why this hasn't come up again in the discussions...
Louisiana Political News Service (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
. . Facebook Friends, Join Us Today! INSIDE REPORT: VITTER, JINDAL LIKELY SECURE Feds Seize Ray Nagin's Missing E-mails, Other Data Charlie Boy Melancon Gives Abortion Supporters 2nd Chance Storm Cleanup Cost in Dispute (Grimmer Should Honor Agreement) Vitter Secures Funds for Pennington Biomedical Research Center Cao To "Save His Soul" Rather Than Support Health Care Bill Rodney Alexander:...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
There was big news out of Louisiana yesterday when new automaker V-Vehicle Co. came out of stealth mode with its announcement that it would start building high-mileage, environmentally friendly vehicles in an idled GM plant. In the hours since, we've found a bit more information about VVC and what the company needs to bring new vehicles to the American auto market. The company was formed in 2006 and...
Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
I think this article hits it pretty accurate . I can recall when Louisiana Congressman Rodney Alexander switched to become a Republican. His staff went ballastic.
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