Archives for November 17, 2010

single Republican senator including Susan Collins (R-Maine), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), and Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas) voted to block an up or down vote against the Paycheck Fairness Act. The purpose of the Paycheck Fairness Act is to ensure that businesses pay women equally as they do men. This should have been an easy vote not […]

The standard main stream media narrative has been that Democrats are placing into leadership the same batch that actually caused them to lose the midterm election in dramatic form. That narrative must be rejected. Firstly, had this loss happened to a man who had accomplished what Nancy Pelosi’s legislative accomplishments were, more than likely the […]

While the $86.2 million dollar spent by the Chamber of Commerce was ultimately unsuccessful in derailing the Healthcare Reform bill it was extremely successful in making it much more friendly to the insurance companies on whose behalf the Chamber was working by making the bill extremely profitable to the insurance companies at the expense of […]

Republican Senator Jon Kyl sudden objection to holding a vote on the US-Russia nuclear weapons treaty is an affront to American national security. The Senate has had this treaty in hands since June and gave all indications of their willingness to support it. Objecting now shows that Republicans are willing to forego a treaty that […]

Rachel Maddow did an excellent job in exposing the Republicans as the party under which the deficit explodes. Important point made is how the media only reports what Republicans say and not what they actually do. The mainstream media is partially responsible for the misinforming of America that have them believing that Republicans are the […]