The Wall Street Journal laments the potential impact of a 60-seat filibuster-proof Senate majority for Democrats :
The nation has had prior almighty Senates, of course, and it hasn’t been pretty. Free of the filibuster check, the world’s greatest deliberative body tends to go on benders. It was a filibuster-proof Democratic majority (or near to it, in his first years) that allowed FDR to pass his New Deal. It was a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate that allowed Lyndon Johnson to pass his Great Society.
If that doesn’t make crystal clear what can be achieved with a 60-seat majority (the return of economic opportunity and security to allow for workingclass prosperity, for starters), I don’t know what would.
Once again, pass the hanky to NRSC Chair John Ensign :
The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee said Friday colleagues have not heeded his calls for contributions to contested races, threatening ad...
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The embattled 4th District Republican state Senate nominee, Mike Faulk, doesn’t appreciate that Mark Brown, the Democratic Senate spokesman, provided a Kingsport paper with opposition research on him regarding his former legal practice:
“The independent senator is in such deep trouble with the folks here at home that he’s turned to the Nashville-based Democrat smear machine for help,” Faulk said in an e-mailed response. “This week’s attack comes from a state employee working... more
State Senate Democratic Caucus Political Director Mark Brown didn’t think GOP Senate candidate Mike Faulk’s counterattack on him for disclosing opposition research by a Texas firm to Kingsport Times News Reporter Hank Hayes was entirely appropriate.
Brown resents the implication that his informative political work was done on the state’s dime. He is on leave, you see, from the Caucus in order to provide reporters with information about a lawyers’ former clientele... more
The time has come for the United States of America to change course away from the Bush-Cheney era....
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CNN Politics: From: dangerousmeta.com Post Date: 2008-12-03 07:58:32
GOP Senate win in Georgia means Dems can’t halt filibusters. The Democrats are going to wish they’d fought harder for this seat. Look at the star power the Republicans applied to this, versus the Dems.
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CNN: GOP Senate win in Georgia means Dems can’t halt filibustersRepublican Sen. Saxby Chambliss claimed victory Tuesday in the Senate race in G13 Vote(s)... more
In a morning interview with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer, New York Senator and Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Comittee, Chuck Schumer discussed the need for government censorship over America’s radio airwaves. Comparing political speech, the Nation’s most protected form of First Amendment speech to pornography, Schumer argued that it was unfair for advocates of free political expression on the radio to oppose government regulation, while supporting decency standards, ... more
Bipartisan Group Determines Threat of Losing Your Job Not Bleak Enough This Holiday Season, Decides To Add Nuclear Annihilation and Mass Hemorrhaging To Mix
The U.S. can expect a nuclear attack or the old Dustin Hoffman movie Outbreak to become reality by the year 2013 according to the findings of a bi-partisan panel headed by Vice-President-elect Joe Biden.
With the war in Iraq expected to die down and $1 trillion in bailout funds being spent randomly by clueless Federal officials, politici... more
(No that isn’t Palin and it certainly isn’t Joe Biden, but I miss BSG, and the boyz………that is Sam Anders aka Michael Trucco….)
Joe Biden got up to the microphones today and made me laugh (Jake Tapper has the video) , since the press won’t print what he says, for today I will, he said a lot of things I concur with and hope to see made into reality:
BIDEN: Well, Governor, thank you very much.
Ed, thanks for setting this up. Ed Rendell and ... more
Days before elections Joe Biden, the Vice-President-elect, told campaign donors: “Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle [of Obama].” Did Joe Biden really have in mind al-Qaeda?
In Britain, security officials say that there is genuine concern that during the transition period al Qaida will attempt a “spectacular” [...]... more
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Nebraska : Scott Kleeb announced the following on his website :
After a long conversation with my family and many of you across the state, I have come to the conclusion that the best way to serve my country is by joining the political process and running for the Democratic nomination for the US Senate.
The 32-year-old Kleeb enters the 2008 Senate Democratic primary already populated with Republican-turned-Democratic businessman Tony Raimondo and longshot candidate veteran Larry ... more
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Virginia : We all know that popular Democratic former Governor Mark Warner is worth many millions of dollar... more
With rancher, teacher, and 2006 Congressional nominee Scott Kleeb having entered the 2008 Senate race , there have been calls to add Kleeb to the Expand the Map! ActBlue page . Thus far, I have not added to the page any candidates with serious primary competition, as Kleeb currently has in Republican-turned-Democratic businessman Tony Raimondo . But Kleeb’s 2006 Congressional campaign included a strong netroots involvement component that we here very much hope to encourage... more
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