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Scott Brown and the Palin Path: Will He Choose Brassy or Boring?
Democrats Leave Health Care Behind for Jobs, Toyota, Gays in Military
Murtha Turned Against War, but Not Grab-While-You-Can Politics
Rep. John Murtha, Advocate for Pa. District, Pentagon, Dies at 77
Liz Christman, Enemy of the Passive Voice, Who Rocked Some Jaunty Hats
Is Obama's Search for 'Common Ground' Real?- Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
'Snowmageddon' in D.C. -- The Politics, Talk Shows and Snowball Fights Go On
Sarah Palin Serves Tea Party Delegates Red Meat and Certainty
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
From a Grass Roots Tea Party, a PAC Blooms
At Nashville Tea Party: Saving the Country, Waiting for Palin
GOP Filibuster Stops Obama Nominee, With Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln's Help
By Patricia MurphyCraig Becker, President Obama's nominee to the National Labor Relations Board, was stopped by a Republican filibuster Tuesday more than 10 months after Obama chose him for the post. The Senate voted 52 to 33 to move Becker's nomination forward, but that fell well short of the 60 votes required to overcome a GOP filibuster. Fifteen senators did not vote because of snow storms wreaking havoc on Washington's airports. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's choice to take a vote on Becker's nomination Tuesday, knowing it would fail, raised speculation that President Obama will use a recess ...
Washington in 60 Seconds: Who Needs Scott Brown When There's Ben Nelson?
By Patricia MurphyGood morning, Capitolists! Once derided by Barack Obama as not "flinty" enough to handle a few inches of snow like the tough Chicago crowd, the capital region has more than handled the three feet dumped on us Saturday and is braced for the foot or more on its way tonight. The Senate has several votes scheduled today, including a cloture vote on a controversial Obama nominee that will require 60 yeas, meaning the Capitolist will be strapping on our flintiest snow boots and heading to the Capitol to watch it go down. Here's what's making news in Washington until then: * Obama Nominee Gets the ...
Democrats Leave Health Care Behind for Jobs, Toyota, Gays in Military
By Patricia Murphy
With their 60-vote Senate majority officially kaput and their health care reform efforts stuck in limbo, Democrats in Congress will complete a pivot away from health reform Tuesday to begin work on a bill designed to chip away at the nation's stubbornly high unemployment rate. But instead of going it alone, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in the process of working with senior Republicans, including Orin Hatch and Chuck Grassley, to craft the measure to win GOP support for it early on. Without a filibuster-proof majority, he doesn't have much choice. "We want to work with the Republicans. ...
Republicans May Skip White House Health Summit
By Patricia MurphyHouse Minority Leader John Boehner and the Republican whip, Rep. Eric Cantor, have notified the White House that Republicans may not participate in the president's bipartisan health care summit unless the ground rules of the meeting are changed. In a lengthy letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel released Monday night, Ohio's Boehner and Cantor of Virginia balked at the idea of Republicans attending the Feb. 25 event simply to react to Democratic proposals already on the table. "If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly ...
Rep. John Murtha, Advocate for Pa. District, Pentagon, Dies at 77
By Patricia Murphy
U.S. Rep. John Murtha died Monday after a lengthy and sometimes tumultuous career in Congress. The Pennsylvania Democrat was first elected to represent his Johnstown Congressional district in 1974 after returning home from fighting as a Marine in Vietnam. Once elected, he rose through the ranks of Congress from back-bencher to a trusted confidante of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, eventually becoming the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations subcommittee for defense spending. From his post atop the Appropriations subcommittee, Murtha enthusiastically directed billions of dollars in ...
Washington in 60 Seconds: Another Landrieu for New Orleans
By Patricia MurphyGood morning, Capitolists! It's a joyous day in Who Dat nation, and a cold one in the capital. Here's what's making news in Washington today: * New Mayor of Who Dat. Did you know that New Orleans had an election over the weekend? Neither did most Nola residents, who were so obsessed with their Saints going to the Super Bowl that just 89,000 showed up to the polls. The landslide winner was Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, brother of Sen. Mary Landrieu and son of former longtime mayor Moon Landrieu. The mayor-elect, who will be the city's first white chief executive since his father left office in the ...
Scott Brown Sworn In To U.S. Senate: 'I Want to Get to Work'
By Patricia MurphyScott Brown, who stunned Democrats with his victory in the race to replace the late Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate, was sworn into office Thursday. By becoming the 41st Republican in the Senate, Brown erases the Democrats' 60-vote filibuster-proof majority.Vice President Joe Biden was on hand to perform the ceremony as Brown's wife, Gail Huff, watched from a gallery above the floor. Brown's two daughters stayed at college instead of flying to Washington for the ceremony, but he said he carried a Bible from each of them to have them with him in spirit.Just after 5:00 p.m., Brown walked onto the ...
Pelosi Announces Vote to Yank Health Insurors' Anti-Trust Exemption
By Patricia MurphyHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the House will vote to repeal the health insurance industry's anti-trust exemption as early as next week. "We will increase competiton, lower costs and improve choices for American consumers," she said. The vote is the first step of Democrats' efforts to pass health reform legislation through a series of smaller, more popular bills rather than trying to pass comprehensive reform all a once. Pelosi said she has no regrets about moving the entire health bill last year, however, because most pieces of it were interconnected. "I think that all of ...
Mary Landrieu Defends 'Louisiana Purchase'
By Patricia MurphySen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor Thursday, defending the deal she struck during the health care negotiations to send $300 million in additional Medicaid funding to Louisiana. Because of the emergency federal aid that flowed into the state following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Ike and Gustav, a federal formula showed the state as wealthier than it really was and drastically reduced the amount of funding it receives through the Medicaid formula. A fix to the formula was included in the health care bill just before the Senate vote, but the addition was ...
Carly Fiorina Unveils Bizarre Sheep Ad
By Patricia MurphyCalifornia Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina has released what is perhaps the most bizarre campaign video of all time, featuring an actor in brown dress shoes on his hands and knees wearing a red-eyed sheep costume, a label for her opponent that makes little sense, and a tag line more appropriate for a vitamin or hand soap than a Senate candidacy. In the video, Fiorina attacks Tom Campbell, one of her Republican primary opponents, as a F-C-I-N-O, a Financial Conservative in Name Only (a take-off of RINO, or Republican in Name Only -- the label sometimes applied to moderate Republicans such as ...
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