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The IRS “scandals”

Monday, May 13, 2013

The scandal de jour revolves around the fact that one office in the IRS, under a Bush appointed commissioner, used terms such as “tea party” and “9/12” to help pick and choose the 501©(4) applications to review. I don’t have much to add to what’s written here at the American Prospect. The real scandal, of [...]

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Not so fast-the Dems could blow this one too

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ted Cruz, the man who makes his fellow senators look good, is apparently thinking of running for President, and at least one blogger at Daily Kos is licking his (or her) chops: Cruz is a perfect candidate for the right: He’s as crazy as Michele Bachmann, but instead of degrees from Winona State University and [...]

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This is getting tiresome

Friday, April 26, 2013

There are times when a sane person can reach only one sensible conclusion about the Democratic members of the House and Senate: They are engaged in a silent conspiracy to put the Republicans in power. True, the Republicans make it hard for them, but the Democrats soldier on. Latest case in point, as many others [...]

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Bipartisan fail

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Looks like the cave on the filibuster is almost complete. It’s unclear if Reid was did it because he wanted to, or because he didn’t have the votes, but it’s definitely yet another bipartisan “solution” that will merely exacerbate the problem it purportedly addresses. I’m no parliamentarian, but even I can see that this only [...]

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Shocking news (not)

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

A few weeks ago I reported that my New Year’s prediction of faux filibuster reform seemed about to come true. Well, it now looks like Harry Reid is about to embrace a version of “reform” that, to us unwashed, looks a lot like the status quo. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) still wants filibuster [...]

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That was quick

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Okay, I know it was a slam dunk, but still… Filibuster reform is in trouble, proponents warn, at the hands of a scaled-back proposal they say would enhance rather than diminish the Senate minority’s power to obstruct. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) says his proposal to force filibustering senators to occupy the floor and speak ceaselessly [...]

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Hard bargaining

Friday, December 28, 2012

This doesn’t excuse Obama’s eagerness to screw social security recipients; there are other ways to cut costs, but it may explain it a bit. Kent Conrad, the budget chairman on the Senate side, and a putative Democrat, suggests compromising with Boehner by giving him more than he’s asked for. Philosophically, I don’t believe in them, [...]

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Fitting in the Frame

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

This morning I attended a breakfast meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in Norwich. I made this sacrifice solely to show support for Chris Murphy, who addressed the assembled multitude. I figured that it could only help if there were at least a few Democrats in a crowd consisting mostly of people who think that [...]

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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Republicans are single minded in the pursuit of power and the pursuit of policies favorable to the rich. To these objectives one can add the goal of impoverishing the rest of us, though why they feel that need is unclear. Democrats, on the other hand, are single minded in their insistence that they must [...]

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Obama to pull a Ryan?

Monday, November 12, 2012

Now that the election is over, and having successfully circled the wagons to protect our guy, it is incumbent upon us to maintain our positions, turn our attention inward, and form a circular firing squad. Let me be among the first to take a shot, though, as always, as I work days (even on this [...]

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