Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama rallied 52 Democrats and independents to vote to weaken 224 years of protection of minority rights in the Senate by eliminating the filibuster. Now only 51 votes, rather than 60, are required for Senate approval of executive and judicial branch nominees. Complaining that Republican intransigence drove him to use the “Nuclear Option”, Reid argued, “There are currently 75 executive branch nominations ready to be confirmed by the Senate,” he said, “waiting an average of 140 days.” But Republican Senator Susan Collins responded, “I think the minority will rue the day that they broke the rules to change the rules.”
Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama rallied 52 Democrats and independents to vote to weaken 224 years of protection of minority rights in the Senate by eliminating the filibuster. Now only 51 votes, rather than 60, are required for Senate approval of executive and judicial branch nominees. Complaining that Republican intransigence drove him […]
Away from the cameras and the media scrum, the first political casualty of the President’s disastrous launch of Obamacare is a bipartisan Congressional revolt against crony capitalists’ effort to pass the clandestine Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty. In an open letter following his Obamacare apology, 151 progressive Democrat members of the House of Representatives joined the […]
The Manhattan Institute just published an analysis of the Obamacare individual policy insurance rates demonstrating the average cost will rise by 41% next year. The results are very similar to the 2009 PriceWaterhouseCoopers analysis that predicted insurance rates would rise by 47%. The biggest hikes will hit the young people, where rates will jump by […]
French riot police fired water cannons and tear gas at 30,000 truckers, farmers, fishermen and food industry workers waving banners of “Right to Work” and hurling rocks and iron bars at police to protest a new “ecotax” on commercial trucking. The controversial $1.4 billion tax for rail and river expansion is causing layoffs across the […]
In Congressional hearings on the day before Halloween, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius promised a “Tech Surge” will rescue Obamacare’s HealthCare.gov software by the end of November. But a review of campaign and fund raising activities by a key executive associated with general contractor for the surge, Quality Software Services Inc. (QSSI), raises […]
U.S. Ambassador James Costos was commanded to appear at the Spanish Foreign Ministry in Madrid on October 28th, as a public expression of Spain’s outrage over the latest document releases from the former National Security Agency contractor and current guest of Russia, Edward Snowden, that demonstrate United States has been collecting electronic surveillance on the […]
With Congressional budget talks heating up, the left wing of the Democrat Party is already bellowing for more government economic stimulus. This demand comes despite last year’s $970 billion of deficit spending and a 27% increase in Fed money-printing producing virtually no job growth above the 1.7% rate of population growth. But with Obamacare cost […]
Senator Rand Paul woke up the Washington political scene on October 25th by leaking a story that he intends to place a “Senatorial hold” on the upcoming Presidential nomination of Janet Yellen to be the next Chairperson of the U.S. Federal Reserve; unless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allows his “Audit the Fed” bill to […]
China’s Dagong credit rating agency on October 17th downgraded its United States sovereign credit rating to A- and maintained its negative outlook on America’s solvency. Dagong warned that despite Washington’s last-minute resolution of the debt ceiling deadlock: “The fundamental situation that the debt growth rate significantly outpaces that of fiscal income and gross domestic product […]
