Month: October 2009

When we talk about cloture, what we really mean is that if even one senator objects to a motion in the Senate, it takes 60 votes to overcome their objection and proceed to the next order of business. It’s not different if...

On Alan Grayson: “Is this news to you that this guy’s one fry short of a Happy Meal?” asked Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)

The problem with trying to ram home a public option at Stage Two is that it can’t be done unless all 60 Democrats vote for cloture to start debate and to finish debate and vote. With Lieberman promising to filibuster any...

It’s not the time to let up in our push for the public option! Let’s keep up the pressure on our elected officials to do the right thing by us on the public option. Call Members of the House today on a robust public...

Mike Elk couldn’t have been more right in his thinking about what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have thought of the Teabaggers, Birthers, etc. He would have seen that those faces that at first glance seem twisted in anger...