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Bunning Gives Middle Finger Fastball To Jobless Americans As Bluegrass-Gate Prepares To Explode
The filibuster saga in which retiring Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky refuses to lift a block on a bill extending unemployment benefits and funding infrastructure projects reached an entirely new level on Monday.
The controversy threatens to spill over from a legislative spat involving a bitter lawmaker nearing the end of his political life to […]
Tea Party Boost For McCain?
After weeks in which it looked like John McCain could be in serious trouble in his Republican primary battle with former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, the Washington veteran and 2008 GOP presidential nominee may have received a significant break from the very group that appeared poised to sink his reelection bid.
Arizona Tea Party organizations joined together […]
Filibusters And Furloughs From The “Party Of No”
Republicans have consistently attacked President Obama and Democrats for their criticism that the GOP is unnecessarily obstructing the natural flow of government and is a “party of no” intent on destroying the president agenda rather than performing the tasks they have been charged with as lawmakers and doing what is best for the nation as […]
White House, Dems Demand “Up-Or-Down” As Health Care Talks Go Up, Down
The weekend after last Thursday’s landmark presidential health care summit saw the White House and congressional Democrats seeking to rapidly move ahead with a plan to pass health care legislation as Republican silence on a challenge to find compromise made it clear that the finished product will not be bipartisan in nature.
President Obama, White House […]
Health Care Summit In Rearview Mirror, President Hopeful For Compromise But Expecting - And Ready For - Progress Alone
President Obama put the finishing touches on his often grueling seven-and-a-half hour health care summit on Thursday by giving Republican a challenge that he hopes will produce a bipartisan health care bill, but warning that he and congressional Democrats are prepared to move forward alone if the minority party fails to compromise on their demands. […]
Question Time Tussle: Obama Says McCain Forgets That “The Election’s Over”
The ghosts of the 2008 presidential election were rekindled in the midst of 2010’s occasionally fractious health care reform summit as the current president and his last election foe ignited old campaign disagreements that temporarily turned Blair House into a presidential debate hall for an election decided well over one year ago.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, […]
White House, Speaker Pelosi Do Summit Pre-Game
The White House stressed that today’s bipartisan health care summit is important and not a “six-hour photo op” while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released remarks she will deliver at the meeting that sets a high bar for any potential compromise on health care legislation with Republicans.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made the rounds of […]
Health Care Summit: What To Watch
The expectations for Thursday’s televised bipartisan health care summit cannot get any lower. What was at first hailed as a breakthrough to Washington gridlock when President Obama announced the event has devolved into a seemingly contrived political exercise, with the White House already having a health care blueprint they say will be put in place […]
Participants Spar Ahead Of Thursday’s Health Care Summit
(CBS)
If the beginning is a shadow of what is to come for President Obama’s hotly anticipated health care summit in Washington on Thursday, there is little chance that anything constructive or bipartisan comes out of the cross-party chat.
A day before the event kicks off at 10 AM sharp, both sides of the health care debate […]
McCain Courts Risk As He Slams Tea Party Challenger For Birther “Conspiracies”
John McCain is going viral and going negative in what is turning into a very bitter fight for his Senate seat on the Arizona Republican primary. Despite being his party’s 2008 presidential nominee, McCain is facing a battle for his political life with the burgeoning Tea Party movement and J.D. Hayworth, their favored candidate.
McCain has […]
