Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | yesterday
“I cannot think of anything, domestically, that would do more harm to our country and to the people of our country, and to future generations, than the health care bill thats being promoted right now. Nobody in this country wants this defeated more than I do.” -U.S. Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl The Arizona Senator made [...]
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Senate floor over the past 10 days has just been a calvacade of Republicans either talking about abortion or about their newfound reverence for Medicare, in their ongoing, Hail Mary effort of killing helahtcare reform by scaring senior citizens. Listening to these guys is enough to make you think that Medicare has been their holy grail for time immemorial. Well, not so much...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
State Sen. Scott Brown has won the Republican nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Fox News (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
State Sen. Scott Brown won the Republican nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
With news spreading today that Democrats may abandon the “public option” in the health care reform bill, Senate Republicans issued this analysis suggesting the new “cure” may be worse than the disease. Here's the text of a memo issued by...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The Senate Republican Caucus just began its meeting to designate Sen. Mike Haridopolos the next Senate President, effective November 2010. Notably abbsent: Lakeland Sen. Paula Dockery, the moderate Republican who went against her party's leadership in opposing the commuter rail...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The Senate Republican Caucus just began its meeting to designate Sen. Mike Haridopolos the next Senate President, effective November 2010. Notably abbsent: Lakeland Sen. Paula Dockery, the moderate Republican who went against her party's leadership in opposing the commuter rail...
Red State (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... exploded yesterday. But what do I mean? It’s pretty simple. The media narrative every time Republicans lose is not that Republicans lose, but that conservatives lose. Without fail, every election cycle, made worse by John McCain being the 2008 nominee, is that conservatives cannot win. In 2008, the narrative was that conservatives cannot even make it out of the GOP primary....
Pundit & Pundette (Free subscription) | yesterday
So awful the Democrats dare not give Americans time to analyze and understand its contents. Read Sen. Mitch McConnell's statement below, my emphasis added: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday regarding the importance of getting it right on health care reform: “Over the past several days, Americans...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Senate Republicans on Tuesday, fresh from a victory in passing the bill promoting commuter rail in South and Central Florida, tapped Indialantic lawmaker Mike Haridopolos to succeed Sen. Jeff Atwater as the chamber's leader. Haridopolos, a conservative Republican who has...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Sam Stein HuffPost A new effort by Senate Democrats to expand Medicare coverage by opening it up to 55- to 64-year-olds has forced Republicans into an about face of sorts. Republican Senators, who for weeks have been dogging their Democratic counterparts for pursuing what they describe as drastic cuts to the Medicare program, are now making the awkward shift from ostensibly...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Senate Republicans on Tuesday, fresh from a victory in passing the bill promoting commuter rail in South and Central Florida, tapped Indialantic lawmaker Mike Haridopolos to succeed Sen. Jeff Atwater as the chamber's leader. Haridopolos, a conservative Republican who has...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Senate Republicans on Tuesday, fresh from a victory in passing the bill promoting commuter rail in South and Central Florida, tapped Indialantic lawmaker Mike Haridopolos to succeed Sen. Jeff Atwater as the chamber's leader.
Democralypse Now (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
For such a frail man, Senate Majority Leader and good-natured Mormon Harry "Mason" Reid sure manages to cause quite a stir. Especially when it comes to pissing off Republicans by saying things that are actually rooted in fact and reality and not just a figment of imagination from some teabagger's twisted mind. Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans...
S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Three Republican Senators “on Monday condemned Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) comments that Republicans who oppose healthcare reform are akin to the opponents of abolition and women’s suffrage,” The Hill reports. "Folks tend to crack under pressure," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) at a press conference. "It is an indication...
