Dems to vote on just the Obama middle class tax cuts
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Greg Sargent at the Washington Post's Plum Line reports today Dems will vote on just middle class tax cuts, Hoyer says: Advertisement Steny Hoyer, the number two in the House Dem leadership, told Democrats at a caucus meeting this morning that they would get to vote this year on just extending the … Read more
Update on the Redistricting Commission screen process
by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 8. Interviews, both in-person and telephonic, will be conducted. All of the applications can be viewed here; a list of the candidates who made the first cut is here. From an email that was forwarded to me (and there … Read more
New York Times: “Iran should send a thank you note to Senator Jon Kyl”
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The New York Times today in an editorial opinion asks The Party of National Security?: The world’s nuclear wannabes, starting with Iran, should send a thank you note to Senator Jon Kyl. After months of negotiations with the White House, he has decided to try to block the lame-duck Senate from ratifying … Read more
Senate Dems to bring votes on DREAM Act and conditional repeal of DADT
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Game on! Start writing and calling your senators today! Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, and call into your local political talk radio shows as well. Make your voices heard. Demand justice. Press releases from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: November 17, 2010 Reid Will Introduce DREAM Act … Read more
The Healthcare Is Too Damn High
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Budget deficits clearly explained by cartoon characters for low information voters (LIVs). This should run as a public service announcement on a loop.
A reasonable alternative to the Catfood Commission “chairmen’s mark”
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Since last week when the co-chairs of the Catfood Commission, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, issued their "chairmen's mark," the media villagers and Beltway bloviators have been falling all over themselves on television and in the opinion pages of the New York Times and Washington Post to tell us that this is … Read more
Sen. Richard Lugar rebukes fellow Republicans over New START treaty
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The one Republican in Congress universally considered to be an expert on nuclear security policy is Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN). On Wednesday, Sen. Lugar had enough of Arizona's Senator Ostruction, Jon Kyl, putting partisan politics ahead of U.S. national security. "In a stunning rebuke to members of his own caucus, Senate Foreign Relations Committee … Read more
