The Hayride

It seems there is no bottom to the depths the House Democrat Leadership will plumb in search of a way to defeat American popular opinion and pass Obamacare.
The new low involves bypassing an actual House vote on the Senate Obamacare bill. It appears the Democrats simply don’t have the votes to pass the bill on [...]

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Last night House Minority Leader John Boehner, together with nine other party leaders, took a pledge to drop the practice of earmarks in Congressional appropriations…
“For millions of Americans, the earmark process in Congress has become a symbol of a broken Washington. We believe the time has come for House Republicans to adopt an [...]

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Last night Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who continues to be drummed in the polls in his campaign to knock off Marco Rubio for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, took to the airwaves on Greta Van Susteren’s show on Fox News. Crist came out swinging with attacks on Rubio – and it would seem he didn’t [...]

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We’re flat-out stealing this from National Review Online. Jim Geraghty writes in his Morning Jolt (which you should definitely sign up to have delivered to your inbox every morning):
I compared the health-care fight to the Battle of Stalingrad the other day, not even realizing that William Jacobson had done the same: “Waterloo probably wasn’t the [...]

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While the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce awaits responses to letters it sent to natural gas producers as a precursor to hearings later this month on whether federal regulation is warranted on hydraulic fracturing, Louisiana’s congressional delegation and state legislators are taking a very vigorous and aggressive stance in fighting Washington’s attempts to [...]

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New York Democrat congressman Eric Massa, whom Geraldo Rivera referred to as “the gay upstate guy” on Fox News over the weekend, has come out with guns blazing after last week stating that he would resign following allegations that he sexually harrassed a male staffer. Massa is now saying that he was railroaded and he’s [...]

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Late last week, U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging five-term incumbent and failed 2008 presidential candidate John McCain for the Republican nomination in McCain’s Arizona senate seat, ran an online ad spoofing his opponent as a fake conservative. The response was predictable, and indicative of the sluggish nature of the “maverick” senator’s approach [...]

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In an interesting bit of news today, Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-Napoleonville) has resigned his position on the House Budget Committee. What’s unclear is whether Melancon is making this move voluntarily or whether he’s being punished for voting against Obamacare.
According to Melancon, it’s his call. His people told TheHill.com that it’s really about his commitment to [...]

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White House flack-in-chief Robert Gibbs calls the thing a “silly argument,” which in itself is an uncommonly stupid statement, but the flat denial today of what looks like a potential sweetheart deal offered to Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT), a Democrat holdout against Obamacare, in which his brother was given a federal judgeship as an inducement [...]

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Comes today word that House Ways And Means chairman Charlie Rangel, one of the more notable crooks in American politics today, has stepped down on a “temporary” basis while the multiple charges of ethics violations against him play out…
“My chairmanship is bringing so much attention to the press, and in order to avoid my colleagues [...]

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