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Daley Machine Nervous: Political Realignment in the Works?
2 hours ago ago from Common American Journal - Ordinary Americans seeking to inform and inspire our fellow Patriots in these extraordinary times
by Paul A. Rahe BigGovernment.com 12/24/2009 For some time now — here , here , and here — I have been arguing what at first must have seemed counterintuitive: that a great political realignment may be in the works. Today, in The Washington Post , William M. Daley warns his fellow Democrats that they are in danger of bringing just such a realignment about. After alluding to the announced retirements of four centrist Democrats in ...
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13 hours ago ago from Later On
Timothy Egan in the NY Times : After the last insult had been spat from the Senate floor, after final passage of a legislative attempt to do something significant in this messy democracy, a leading voice of the opposition made a public prediction: “People will be hunting Democrats with dogs,” said Senator Phil Gramm of Texas. This was 1993, in the fragile first year of Bill Clinton’s presidency, on a vote to raise taxes for the ...
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7 hours ago ago from Zandar Versus The Stupid
Yep, this guy's a Republican alright . Rep. Parker Griffith announced his switch to the Republican Party on Tuesday, telling the press he can "no longer align [him]self with a party that continues to pursue legislation that is bad for our country, hurts our economy, and drives us further and further into debt." The Alabama Democratic Party issued a statement Wednesday accusing Griffith's political consultancy, Main Street Strategies, of ...
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17 hours ago ago from Billy Rubin\'s Blog
Today's Boston Globe reads, " Health Win in Hand ." You can almost feel the exclamation point coming off the page. It follows with the caution, "Hurdles Ahead." Noting that the healthcare bill still faces the challenge of reconciling the two substantively different bills passed by both houses of Congress, not to mention Constitutional challenges and whatever other dirty tricks the Senate Republicans can muster between now and the passage of ...
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By Jed Babbin 12/24/2009 Today the Senate will drop its huge lump of coal in our Christmas stockings by passing Harry Reid’s version of the Obamacare bill. And when it’s done, its members can join the already-recessed House for their much-anticipated if not well-earned Christmas vacation. Congressional recesses, especially the Christmas break, were short vacations from politics until Bill Clinton invented the never-ending ...
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