Poll: MOST Americans Reject HC Bill w/Stupak and...
Jennifer Brunner on her facebook page posted some interesting polling data on the Stupak amendment. Yes a major poll was done on Stupak back in July. This info was sent to the leadership of congress...
View ArticleWyden: The Choice Should be YOURS Not THEIRS!
Sen. Wyden hammers home the fallacies of the healthcare bills in Congress. You may have noticed his remarks on the front page of Politico talking about the great danger of Dems selling this bill as one...
View ArticleUPDATED-Progressives: No More Watering Down PO.
Sen Sherrod Brown hit the airwaves today to make it clear: 4 senators should not be able to kill what most the people want- apublic option. His position is keep it in the bill and make those 4 have to...
View ArticleBreaking: Bill White Running for Tx Guv!!
The Houston Chronicle, El Paso Times and quorumreport have been reporting that Houston Mayor Bill White is switching to the Texas governor's race asap. This is Major NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS! Party leaders...
View ArticleLabor in Emergency Mtgs: May Officially Oppose HC Bill.
This is big news from huffpo. Labor is meeting right now on possibly formally opposing the senate healthcare bill. Trumka from AFLCIO, SEIU and the Steelworkers appear fed up. They have poured lots of...
View ArticleNelson's Ransom: Medicaid.
This what happens when leadership is not exerted in the legislative process. Everyone becomes a king. Every day some senator makes his or her demands like a 2 year old, says that a vote to even allow...
View ArticleFeingold: Obama is Responsible for Losing Public Option.
Sen Feingold tonight, in the strongest statement yet from a prominent progressive on the bill I have seen, expresses his frustrations with the President over the loss of the public option and real...
View ArticleHouse Progressives Push to Restore Public Option...
If Obama is serious about reducing our deficits then he better hope the House Progressives suceed in their latest efforts to get the public option back in the HCR. If the Democrats are serious about...
View ArticleDiFi Pushes New Bill to Block Insurance Rate Hikes!
Sen Feinstein has come out with a new bill that would allow HHS to stop rate increases from big insurance companies. It would also allow for a ratings system of insurers and other consumer friendly...
View ArticleTea Party Rag Goes Too Far..
There is something very wicked stirring in our country. As we saw in that Harris Poll a good number of Americans thinks Obama is a foriegn agent, a Muslim, hates America, a socialist, akin to Hitler,...
View ArticleMAJOR UPDATE: Reid Backs Brown and Sanders, Feingold Threatens Fillibuster!
MAJOR UPDATE FROM TPM: It appears Sanders has won! Dodd and Sanders have modified the amendment a bit but it still will allow the GAO to audit the FED and do what Sanders and so many want. With Dodd...
View ArticleSpecter Runs Ads Attacking Sestak for Backing Gun Control..
Sen Specter got Bush Jr to back him 2004 and got Obama to back him in 2008. every day this sordid affair of a camapign has gone on in PA I wonder what has this party switch wrought? Specter is now...
View ArticleOurtrage: Foodstamp Funding to be Raided by Sen. Dems
It appears Sen Reid will move Monday to force a vote on saving 300,000 teacher positions, funding FMAP aid for the states and more. At first this sounds great- educators across this country are in...
View ArticleBreaking: Goolsbee to Replace Romer
ABC News reports Obama economic adviser Goolsbee will take Roemer's spot as Chair of Council of Economic Advisers. I was hoping for Laura Tyson,who just wrote in t he NYT an arguement for the need for...
View ArticleRep. Boccieri Should Leave Us Shaken and Ready for Battle.
Rep Boccieri Should Leave Americans Shaken, Enraged and Ready to Do Battle with the corpoations. Must See Vid..Cong Boccieri of OH, a freshman and veteran of our military finds himself under attack by...
View ArticleUPDATED! DNC Launches Major Ad:"The Chamber is Trying to Steal Our Elections"
The DNC has made a surprise national cable ad buy today. The ad makes a major attackon the GOP- saying the chamber is trying to steal our elections. But will it work? It also invokes Bush- is that...
View ArticleUPDATE: Gallup Scandal. Urged to STOP Polling Immediately.
UPDATE 3PM- POLTICO'S BEN SMITH ALSO FINDS THE GALLUP MODEL BIZARRE AND HAS CONTACTED GALLUP TO EXPLAIN ITSELF. HOPEFULLY THERE WILL BE A REPSONSE SOON ON THE ISSUE? Politico's Smith Questions Gallup,...
View ArticleDont Write Off Bill White from Taking Back Texas. Here is WHY! UPDATED!
As a Texan and a hard working volunteer for Bill White for governor I find it amazing how much of late White is getting written off. Rest assured White is very much in this race and don’t be surprised...
View ArticleTX GOTV: We Will Oust Perry this Time.
I just got back from GOTV again for Texas democrats especially Bill White and our ticket in Harris County (home of Houston). In Harris we have a chance for history- we have 103 races on the ballot with...
View ArticleTx GOP House Speaker Faces AntiSemitic Attacks by Tea Party and,,
YIKES-We have a live firestorm breaking lose in TX that will and IS make natl. headlines! Its one thing to run on such anti govt things but then you come into office and suddenly find its more complex...
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