From Cato@Liberty: In fact, Judge Walker was first appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, at the recommendation of Attorney General Edwin Meese III (now the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation). Democratic opposition led by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Democrats’
Background on Judge Walker
Posted: 5th August 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: civil rights, Democrats, justice, republicans, Vaughn Walker
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What victory looks like
Posted: 31st March 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Democrats, healthcare, Obama, Obama administration
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Let’s see the Republicans run on repeal against this sort of advertising.
Republicans are crazy
Posted: 24th March 2010 by Dave in politicsTags: Democrats, Fox News, media, politics, republicans
For those who remember, there was a poll commissioned by blog Daily Kos a while ago that showed many in the Republican Party where insane. Fox News and conservative commentators attacked the poll as purposefully inaccurate. Well there is a new Harris poll out that shows Republicans are even more insane than I thought (I [...]
Stupak speaks
Posted: 21st March 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: abortion, Democrats, healthcare, Stupak
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As of right now, 7:20 pm, Bart Stupak is speaking in a colloquy with Henry Waxman. This is a procedural move intended to include in the record the terms on which Stupak and his gang have agreed to vote in favor of healthcare reform.
Healthcare quote of the day
Posted: 21st March 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Democrats, healthcare, justice, Stupak, wackos
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When I’m drafting right to life language, I don’t call up the nuns. – “Democratic” Congressman Bart Stupak, taking on Catholics nuns who have come out in large numbers in favor of healthcare insurance reform. Who does his listen to? Why “leading bishops, Focus on the Family, and The National Right to Life Committee,” of [...]
Dick of the week: Bart Stupak
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Democrats, healthcare, Stupak, wackos
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I can’t say it better than Wonkette. The good news: Stupak is likely to have a primary challenger.
Harkin: Reconciliation is a go
Posted: 3rd March 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Democrats, healthcare
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I hate to jinx things, but today seems to have been a sort of breakthrough on healthcare insurance reform. Senator Tom Harkin is stating that reconciliation is a go. It actually, finally, mercifully may happen, folks. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! Oh, and when you the GOP whining about the [...]
Healthcare summit live
Posted: 25th February 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Democrats, healthcare, Obama, republicans
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Via NBC news: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
GOP: wholly-owned subsidiary of insurance companies? (updated)
Posted: 25th February 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Democrats, healthcare, insurance companies, republicans
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The GOP does support the retention of an anti-trust exemption for the healthcare insurance companies. The free market seems very important to the GOP, an article of faith, and government intrusion in the market to protect a free market without collusion is bad. Except when it isn’t. Update: Matt Taibbi has more. The insurance antitrust [...]
When is a terrorist not a terrorist?
Posted: 6th February 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Bush administration, civil liberties, Democrats, republicans, terror, torture, wackos
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Glenn Greenwald, writing in Salon, points out that if a government asserts that someone is a “terrorist” that does not mean that the accused in fact is a terrorist. The idea that if a claim of “terrorist” is made means anything can be done to the accused (torture, indefinite imprisonment, deportation, etc.) is what helps [...]
Political quote of the day
Posted: 23rd January 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Democrats, healthcare
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This isn’t about betrayal, or a slap in the face, or an insult. It isn’t about strategies to keep seats, or grand theories of justice. Democrats in Congress have the chance to cast a single vote that will make the lives of tens of millions of Americans less wrenching, our demises less brutal. That’s what [...]
Past time for Obama to fight
Posted: 23rd January 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Democrats, healthcare, Obama
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Andrew Sullivan argues that President Obama must directly take on the paranoid claims of the right and, in doing so, he must fight with every tool at a President’s disposal. And, all of us who supported the President must again to so, even if we are not getting everything we want. Read the entire essay, [...]
Another nuanced take on terrorism
Posted: 9th January 2010 by Brant in politics, warTags: civil liberties, Democrats, Obama administration, republicans, terror
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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Paul Campos joins the ranks of those who view our current response to threats of terrorism realistically and not emotionally. He notes the remote risk than any particular US citizen will be a victim of terrorism, and yet we persist in imposing upon ourselves a huge costs in loss [...]
Rich: Tiger Woods as man of the year
Posted: 20th December 2009 by Brant in biz, culture, politicsTags: banks, Bernanke, Bush, Democrats, frauds, media, Obama, republicans, Tiger Woods, Wall Street
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I can’t disagree with Frank Rich’s column this morning. Tiger Woods is a terrific personification of an entire decade of people making money (and going to war) based on a false persona and fantasy. If there’s been a consistent narrative to this year and every other in this decade, it’s that most of us . [...]
Political quote of the day
Posted: 8th November 2009 by Brant in politicsTags: banks, Democrats, Obama administration, Wall Street
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If there’s one general lesson to be gleaned from Christie’s victory over Jon Corzine in New Jersey, it’s surely that in today’s zeitgeist it’s less of a stigma to be fat than a former Goldman Sachs fat cat, even in a blue state. … The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, [...]