Rockefeller guts Constitution for telco bucks, drafting FISA bill with full...
Body: As I just shared with the Rockefeller staffer (numbers here), after mentioning I'd be very happy to write a check to a primary challenger, this retoractive immunity thing sounds like a sweet...
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Naturally, there's no quid pro quo involved
Body: (Thanks to Ryan Singel at Wired for the excellent charts and analysis.)I mean, a quid pro quo would imply that Rockefeller (D-Widdler) was completely in the tank for Bush, and was willing to sell...
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We are Democrats. They are enablers.
Body: [Pelosi's statement.] Well, I guess now I know why impeachment was "off the table." Anybody for Barney Frank as the new speaker? Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen in WaPo:
View ArticleSteny Hoyer and Jay Rockefeller conspire for retroactive telecom immunity
Body: I don’t like Steny Hoyer. There’s just no way around it. Now he’s conspiring with Jay Rockefeller to force retroactive telecom immunity through Congress, so George Bush and his criminal...
View ArticleVersailles discusses the future of health care deform
Body: Senate staffers predict major health care reforms in 2009 Once President-elect Barack Obama, HHS Secretary-designate Tom Daschle and a Democrat-led Congress take office in 2009, broad scale...
View ArticleThe Return of The Jello Man
Body: When I was young the United States had some liberals of courage in the Senate. People like Estes Kefauver, Paul Douglas, Hubert H. Humphrey, Herbert Lehman, Wayne Morse, Richard L. Neuberger,...
View ArticleWhy They Don't Want To Use Reconciliation
Body: The solid front of Democratic Party progressives supporting the Senate's health care form bill, has now cracked wide open with Howard Dean's call to kill the Senate bill and start over in the...
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