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Democrats win $400B in Medicare cuts
10 hours ago ago from The Lincoln 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Lincoln, Nebraska
In the first showdown over the Senate health care bill, Democrats on Thursday successfully defended more than $400 billion in Medicare cuts, turning back a potentially lethal stab at the measure. On a 58-42 vote, the Senate defeated an effort by Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, to send the bill back to a committee where lawmakers would have had to drop the cuts in Medicare payments and instead find another way to pay for the bill, ...
Related contentPeter Schiff Polling Ahead of Chris Dodd
18 hours ago ago from Reboot The Republic
From Rasmussen Reports A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Connecticut now finds Dodd attracting just 35% to 40% of the vote against three possible Republican challengers. Former GOP Congressman Rob Simmons is still his toughest opponent, leading Dodd 48% to 35%. Seven percent (7%) prefer some other candidate in this contest, and 11% are undecided. Those figures are a slight improvement for Simmons since September . The ...
Related contentRepublicans picking up bad habits from Democrats?
1 hour, 5 minutes ago ago from Political Irony
I don't know. Maybe it is just another case of the Republicans accusing the Democrats of something they themselves are guilty of. FiveThirtyEight has an interesting article about identity politics . For example, The GOP has long accused Democrats of supporting affirmative action mainly to attract minority votes, even if it didn't actually help that minority. Dubya even called it, the soft bigotry of low expectations . And by being the ...
Related contentRepublican's 2010 Senate chances
15 hours ago ago from PrairiePundit
Karl Rove: Democrats began the year as masters of the political universe, winning the White House and increasing their majorities in Congress. But the year is ending badly for them. Their top initiative, health care, is deeply unpopular. Congress's approval rating is 26%, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's is 28%, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's is an anemic 14%. Political currents are running against the party of Barack Obama. Democrats ...
Related contentSenator Hatch – If only R’s ran things
19 hours ago ago from Where's the Outrage?
I might be wrong but for several years, the Republicans did run things. We got tax cuts for the rich which didn't pay for themselves and only made the rich, richer. We got 2 wars which were not paid for. We got the weakest economic recovery since the great depression. Yet, Senator Hatch is pining for the good old days. Not a chance. From TP : Last night, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) delivered an hour-long speech on the Senate floor ...
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Centrist, Conservative Democrats delay financial reform debate
19 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business
A group of centrist and conservative House Democrats forced a last-minute delay of a sweeping financial regulatory reform package scheduled for debate on the House floor Wednesday, sparking a flurry of negotiations before a compromise cleared the way for the legislation to move forward. The key point of contention was a proposed amendment by Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.), vice chair of a centrist coalition called New Democrats, that some party ...
Related contentOlympia Snowe Tells Story About Health-Care History
19 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Then, after equating opposition to Medicare cuts and tax increases with support for human bondage that it took a bloody civil war to end, Mr. Reid went on to draw analogies to women's suffrage, Social Security, civil rights and Medicare. Mr. Reid would have done better listening to Mrs. Snowe about the "history" of major social legislation, which she also discussed in her November speech. Her main and telling point was that durable social ...
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