Tag: filibuster
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December 14, 2009 02:30 PM EST --
What will it take for the Senate to abolish the filibuster? Just a little Rawlsian magic.
By Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Despite the recent attacks from both sides of the aisle, the filibuster . . .
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December 14, 2009 08:49 AM EST --
Joe Lieberman is up to his old tricks again. The Connecticut senator threatened Sunday to oppose the health-care bill if it allows uninsured people over 55 to purchase Medicare. Democratic aides also . . .
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December 20, 2009 02:21 PM EST --
I usually try not to speak or write about politics. I find the topic distasteful, even when discussing current issues with people I agree with. However I feel almost compelled to write about politics . . .
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July 21, 2008 12:16 AM EDT --
The economy is faltering.
The deficit balloons.
The stock ma rket is in the dumps.
Banks are failing.
The dollar is in free-fall.
And yet Republicans and Republican-sympathizers . . .
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October 27, 2009 10:04 PM EDT --
Lieberman to vote for a filibuster
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Liberals have one more reason to love to hate Joe Lieberman.
Politico's reporting that the independent Connecticut senator . . .
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May 24, 2009 08:48 PM EDT --
Yahoo -- The Senate's No. 2 Republican on Sunday refused to rule out a filibuster if President Barack Obama seeks a Supreme Court justice who decides cases based on "emotions or feelings or preconceived . . .
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October 27, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
Joe Lieberman's doubletalk on the public option is widely documented. Why not toss him overboard and get on with the work of real health care reform? He is grabbing too much undeserved attention.
I . . .
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September 09, 2008 04:05 PM EDT --
While posting a rebuttal to someone who disbelieved the Republicans were at fault for the fact that Congress has gotten nothing done in the last 20 months, I came across this interesting statistic. . . .
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April 28, 2009 04:33 PM EDT --
Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is switching from Republican to Democrat. Of course, since he's been siding with the Dems for some time now, it's really no big surprise. The . . .
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December 15, 2009 07:39 PM EST --
Stupid political question of the day: Should Joe Lieberman be “punished” for his role in obstructing the democratic agenda?
”HELL YES!” Moreover, the next heads to . . .
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December 22, 2009 04:30 PM EST --
From CBS News Online:
On the Senate floor Tuesday morning, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) delivered a health care inspired version of the classic Christmas poem, "Twas the Night Before Christmas." . . .
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June 26, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
Get ready, here it comes. The FISA bill is coming, and the Democrats, once again, will docilely pass it.
An effort to block a wide-ranging overhaul of U.S. wiretapping laws failed in the Senate on . . .
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February 02, 2009 07:38 AM EST --
Forget the reaching across the aisle baloney...this snake is strictly agenda and partisan:
"GOP leaders are warning that President Barack Obama's likely appointment of Republican Sen. Judd . . .
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December 14, 2009 11:00 PM EST --
First, Senator Lieberman (I-Conn) said that he was not only against any sort of public option, even with an opt-out provision for the states. Now he has come out against a Medicare buy-in for persons . . .
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September 26, 2005 10:27 AM EDT --
There are a number of sayings about secrets. The Japanese have one about keeping secrets: Tell a secret only . . .
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January 27, 2006 01:45 PM EST --
What is an activist Judge?
One synonym is an advocate. If we believe the Republican Senators that are speaking today they say that confirming Alito will keep activist judges off the Bench. If . . .
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April 29, 2009 07:05 AM EDT --
Yesterday, Pennsylvania Senior Senator Arlen Specter announced his intention to switch parties from Republican to Democrat. The move is intended to improve his chances of winning re-election to his sixth . . .
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June 06, 2008 10:47 PM EDT --
We catch a break from politics? Well, somewhat. There is plenty of drama out there, but we did not get the chance to be a fly on the wall of the private meeting of Obama and Clinton. Anyway, inevitable . . .
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January 27, 2006 09:40 AM EST --
FILIBUSTER
A freebooter and a filibuster may not share many attributes, but they do share a common linguistic ancestor: both come from the Dutch word vrijbuiter, which is derived from vrij, "free," . . .
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December 14, 2007 03:24 PM EST --
There's a lot more coverage of FISA and Dodd's leadership to stop retroactive immunity.
Jason Rosenbaum of The Seminal calls on his readers to take action and call Senators Biden, Clinton, . . .
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