Author: BooMan

Senate Passes Hurdle

The Senate has passed the final 60-vote threshold prior to passing their version of the health care reform bill. There will be a vote on final passage tomorrow morning but that will only require 51 votes. Over the recess...

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Health Care Strategy

Well, lookee here: House Democrats insisted Tuesday they have no plans to roll over for the Senate in upcoming negotiations on a health reform bill, even as they acknowledged it would be all but impossible to reinsert a public...

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Serious Question

I don’t mean this seriously because the we didn’t face an either/or situation. But I wonder what Obama’s approval rating would be if his policies had done a lot more to create jobs and lesson the foreclosure...

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Praying for Others’ Misfortune

They prayed that it would rain on Barack Obama’s DNC acceptance speech. God rewarded them with a hurricane that disrupted the Republican National Convention. They prayed that some death or illness would prevent one...

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What’s in a Defection?

Not that it is ever good to lose a vote for the Speaker of the House, but that was lost already when Parker Griffith announced this summer that he would not be supporting Pelosi in the next Congress. So, Griffith’s party...

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