David Axelrod, one of Obama’s closest advisors, claims that Scott Brown’s upset victory in Massachusetts, which cost the Democrats their supermajority in the Senate, actually helped get health care reform passed. After the election, Republicans gleefully declared reform dead, since the Democrats didn’t have the votes to stop a Republican filibuster. But instead, in the […]
[I’m reposting this for Centrist Zealot — check them out.] President Barack Obama, using a surgical technique first performed by Franklin Roosevelt and later perfected by Lyndon Johnson, forcibly attached a pair of testicles to the Democratic Party yesterday. The operation, which took an agonizing 15 months and much of the nation’s patience, was labeled […]
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Leonard Nimoy looks for the Democratic Party, and ends up discovering the truth about why they can’t get anything done: By Ted Rall and David Essman.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
© Lee Judge Why in the world was losing one senator such a terrible blow to the Democrats? Yes, they no longer have a “supermajority” in the Senate, and thus cannot automatically stop filibusters. But they still have a majority in the Senate, a majority in the House, not to mention the presidency. Isn’t that […]
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Jon Stewart points out the ridiculousness of Democrats trying to please the Republicans: My favorite part was the “Descent of the Democrats”.
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Rarely do we get such an obvious example of how the media loves a dramatic political narrative, even when the facts don’t fit it. In this case, the political narrative is that the Democrats are in deep trouble and that the upcoming midterm elections will be a repeat of the election that swept the “contract […]
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Jon Stewart tells it like it is. With 65% of Americans supporting the public option, 70% of doctors supporting it, even a plurality of Republicans supporting it, the President supporting it, and holding a super-majority in Congress, the Democrats are still doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: See also these […]
Saturday, August 15, 2009
© Lloyd Dangle I sure hope this isn’t really true, but if the Dems can’t pass health care reform this year, it may be time to reconsider.
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Arlen Specter called his opponent in the Democratic Party primary, Joe Sestak, a “flagrant hypocrite” and accused him of registering as a Democrat “just in time to run for Congress.” Remember that Specter just switched from Republican to Democrat, because polls showed that he was going to lose the Republican primary. Sestak says that he […]
