Folks, The healthcare bill–in both the House and Senate–have provisions to spend billions of dollars on “infrastructure.” Walking paths, lighting for playgrounds, all stem from the healthcare bill. Uncle Teddy’s handlers said that it is needed to improve the overall livelihood of folks that use the ...
Sen. Tom Harkin Finally achieving a filibuster-proof 60 votes doesn’t mean Senate Democrats will march in lockstep behind their leaders, Sen. Tom Harkin said Thursday. Democrats, he said, tend to go their own way and are less likely to follow their leaders in a direction that doesn’t serve their hom ...
So much for the bipartisan negotiations by Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats in the wake of trillion dollar cost estimates in their version to force Americans into government run health care. Sensing the impending loss of the so-called “public option” the Senate Majority leader ordered Senate ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-nied) to stop trying to get Republican support on any bill. The former pugilist Senator “told Baucus that taxing health benefits and failing to include a strong government-run insurance option of some sort in his b ...
Tonight my wife accused me of “not being a very nice guy,” and furthermore she said “you weren’t like this when I first met you.” She’s right. For years I fought off the urge to say as I thought or believed, but not anymore. I’m not politically correct and I’m not polite about it. I’ve been taken to ...
This is an old post , with a few revisions, but I thought it was worthwhile to go back and look at it again. In 2006, then Governor Mitt Romney, with the assistance of Senator Ted Kennedy and a largely Democrat legislature, passed the first of its kind universal health care plan in Massachusetts . T ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and soon to be Senator Al Franken Via The Washington Post Al Franken will be sworn in as Minnesota’s second senator this afternoon, filling the 60th seat for Democrats. Both parties will keep a watchful eye on the former comedian, wary of his flamboyant nature comin ...
Jackie Kennedy during the White House years From USA Today Online, July 6, 2009: Book: Jackie, RFK had four-year affair The New York Post, quoting a new book, reports that Jackie Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy had a four-year love affair that began shortly after President Kennedy was killed. Author C. Da ...
As the Senate reconvenes for the remainder of July, the attention of many following the Healthcare Horserace will turn to Senator Max Baucus and the Senate Finance Committee. A month after Senator Ted Kennedy tested the waters with the Affordable Health Choices Act and only weeks after the House of ...
Grazie a Franz franzblog2.wordpress.com ho ascoltato il discorso di Bob Kennedy il 18 marzo 1968 sul valore, sulla composizione del PIL. Bellissimo, affascinante, realistico discorso che andrebbe riproposto molto spesso, soprattutto in questi incerti tempi. Fatto ascoltare, questo discorso di econom ...