The high-stakes election is still a year away, but Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is already leveling criticism at Republican Sue Lowden, the former state GOP chairwoman, state legislator and Miss America candidate who hopes to unseat him. Lowden, however, is apparently holding her on against Reid, leading him in mid-October polling. Her problem is the barrage coming from her own party, which...
Susan Barker is the superintendent of Castle Rock schools in Washington state. And the Daily News of Longview, Washington reports that she is upset with the Obama administration. State and federal figures released last week report that initial federal stimulus dollars “saved or retained” 24,000 teachers in Washington — including 36 in Castle Rock. Teaching positions make up the bulk...
There’s word today that Senator Lieberman is saying he won’t join a Republican filibuster of the health care bill after all. Harry Reid and Lieberman have reached a “private understanding” on the matter, Alexander Bolton says at The Hill. Steve Benen says that in fact Senate Democrats and the White House never thought he would [...]
otherwise known as Hate Crime Legislation was signed into law. The Dems put it on the Defense Spending Bill because they knew it wouldn't pass on its own merit as it creates a special class of citizens and will not treat people fairly. It is totally against the 14th Amendment of our constitution that guarantees fair and unbiased treatment under the law. A person can now be charged with a hate crime...
I have an interest in regional and state unemployment levels since I believe these levels are often indicative of government mandated policies, either pro-business or anti-business. These rates are now available for through the end of September . There are regional, geographical divisions (9 in the regions), and state unemployment numbers. The national unemployment rate at the end of September was...
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid says the massive stimulus bill passed by Congress earlier this year has created or saved more than 6,000 Nevada jobs - and even more when a business debt restructuring provision is factored.
From Los Angeles Times media columnist James Rainey's October 30 column : The debate over the meaning of Fox News has become so routine, and so routinely partisan, that one hesitates to join the fray again. But when the debate reaches a presidential level, it seems worth reminding everyone, again, how much the boundaries between news and opinion have blurred and how sanguine most people have become...
Attention starved Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) says he would support a Republican filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill, reports Politico. Yeah, this is the same Joe Lieberman who was endorsed by Obama back in the 2006 primary. Obama could have endorsed the progressive Ned Lamont, but like Obama keeps telling us, he is not a liberal. Lieberman added that...
The Huffington Post has the backstory on how the opt-out became the "silver bullet" that saved the public option, despite being pitched to Senator Harry Reid just three weeks ago: Around the time that the Senate Finance Committee was slated to vote on (and ultimately reject) two variations of a national public option, two of its members -- Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY)...
Monday night, Senator Ron Wyden spoke with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about the health care bill that Senator Harry Reid will bring to the Senate floor. The nine-minute clip below opens with a fantastic review by Maddow of where we are now. She waves a British flag (nope), a Canadian flag (nope), and a public option rally sign (sorta, with an asterisk). Cute props from a Rhodes Scholar with a master's in...
WASHINGTON | Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing government-run insurance coverage, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday, although he stopped short of claiming the 60 votes needed to pass a plan. Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said individual states would have the choice of opting out of the program.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announces that an opt-out public option is in the health care reform bill, AFTER THE JUMP... On Sunday's Meet the Press, Senator Chuck Schumer explained just how the opt-out option would work: Visit msnbc.com for...
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate majority leader, announced today that the health care bill he will put forward in the Senate will include a public option - with a state opt-out provision. The opt-out is certainly more progressive than the opt-in idea that had been proposed. (Should it start with 50 states and count down? Or with zero states and count up? More is better.) Reid also rejected the...
From The Salt Lake Tribune : Harry Reid: A Mormon in the middle Politics » Some say his liberal stands clash with his LDS faith. By Thomas Burr Washington » Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid keeps a copy of the Book of Mormon in his office just off the chamber floor. There's a second copy handy to give away to someone in need of spiritual guidance. "I've had more than that," says...
Stuff like this is really pissing me off. From The Huffington Post yesterday: Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama's Support HuffPost | 10-24-09 President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform. In its place, say multiple Democratic sources, Obama has indicated...
Swearing in on a stack of Bibles, the Senate and House are getting back to the work of whatever it is they do these days. Unfortunately, two tree stumps will still run Congress - Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
I seriously doubt that there is a snowballs chance in hell of this bill getting a vote in Ringside Harry Reid's Senate, simply because it would put Democrats in the awkward position of having to either supporting the bill and angering the Shamnesty base or oppose it and turning off a large majority of voters that recognize that providing legal ID's to Illegal immigrants is a bad idea.
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