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Tag Archives: Senate
Senate Caves, House Soon to Follow
The Senate voted 83-15 yesterday to invoke cloture on President Obama’s sell-out compromise on the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the top 2%. Nine Democrats and Bernie Sanders voted “no.” The nine were: Jeff Bingaman (NM), Sherrod Brown … Continue reading
Posted in budget, Congress, Democrats, economy, Obama, Taxes
Tagged alternative energy, Bush tax cuts, China, cloture vote, compromise, create jobs, dog and pony show, House, infrastructure, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mary Landrieu, Mitch McConnell, President Obama, Republicans, Senate, starve the beast
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Senator Sanders on the Class War
Just one small segment of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ marathon speech on the floor of the Senate yesterday, dealing with the class war and the winners and losers in that war: “…in the year 2007, the top 1 percent of all … Continue reading
Posted in budget, Clinton, Congress, economy, Financial Crisis, Obama, Politics, special interests, Taxes, too big to fail, Wall Street
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Chamber of Commerce, Charles Ferguson, Citigroup, class war, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, derivatives, free trade, George Carlin, Glass-Steagall, Inside Job, Jacob Lew, Mitch McConnell, NAFTA, oligarchs, OMB, Peter Orszag, pork, President Clinton, President Obama, Senate, South Korea, speech, too big to fail
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The Party of “No” or The Party of No Backbone
Gutless. Spineless. Cowards. “Senate Democrats said Thursday that they had abandoned plans for a pre-election showdown with Republicans over taxes, postponing any vote on extending Bush administration tax cuts until after the November midterms. Democrats discussed the issue during a … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Democrats, economy, Politics
Tagged Democrats, Harry Reid, lame-duck session, mid-terms, November, Republicans, Senate, taxes
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Reid Up By 2 in Latest Rasmussen Poll
Nevada Republican Party to the Tea Party Express: Thanks a lot. In the June 8 Senate Republican primary in Nevada, Tea Party darling Sharron Angle defeated Republican establishment candidate Sue “Chickens for Checkups” Lowden by a margin of 39%–28%. A … Continue reading
It’s True Harry, and You Have Only Yourself to Blame
Welcome to the party, Harry. You’re a little late, but glad you finally got here: “Republicans hope unemployment rates jump higher to give them a better shot at retaking Congress, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday. At a press conference … Continue reading
One Vote
One vote. That’s all more than 2 million Americans needed to have their unemployment benefits extended. One vote. That’s all that was needed to prevent the unprecedented action by Congress of failing to extend benefits when unemployment is anywhere near … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Democrats, economy, Politics, Republicans, Unemployment
Tagged Ben Nelson, deficit, Democrats, extension, fool, Harry Reid, idiot, Olympia Snowe, Senate, Susan Collins, unemployment benefits
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Lucy and the Football—Again
I don’t like to get my blood pressure up this early on a Saturday morning, but this latest action by the Senate in killing the extension of unemployment benefits really pisses me off. And every time one of these lying, … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Democrats, economy, Politics, Republicans
Tagged average rent, Ben Nelson, California, Diane Feinstein, economic stimulus, extension, Harry Reid, letter, Olympia Snowe, San Francisco, Senate, stand alone, unemployment
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Would the GOP Deliberately Sabotage the Economy? Is There Any Doubt?
Commenting on a Huffington Post piece about how Republicans, and Ben Nelson (excuse my redundancy), appear poised to kill the tax-extenders bill in the Senate, Steve Benen at Washington Monthly writes: “In the real world, this means millions of jobless … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Conservatives, economy, financial reform, financial regulation, Politics, Republicans
Tagged Ben Nelson, depression, Dick Cheney, economy. deficit, Happy Days Are Here Again, Huffington Post, Medicare Part D, Michael Steele, power, recession, Republicans, sabotage, Senate, tax extenders, unemployment, wars. tax cuts, Washington Monthly
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Senate Turns Down Extension of Unemployment Benefits
The Republicrats in the Senate gave a big middle finger to the long-term unemployed yesterday, as 12 Democrats joined all the Republicans in voting down the extension of unemployment benefits, citing their hypocritical concerns about increasing the deficit as the … Continue reading
Posted in budget, Congress, Democrats, economy, Politics, Republicans
Tagged Afghanistan, allure, Ben Nelson, defense spending, deficit, Diane Feinstein, drug test, funding, Iraq, John Linder, Orrin Hatch, Pentagon, Senate, too generous, unemployed, unemployment benefits
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