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Ohio's Sherrod Brown Tells Senate: Hitler and Stalin Busted Unions Too
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyNot that he's making any comparison with current events, mind you, but Sen. Sherrod Brown reminded his fellow lawmakers this week that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin had little tolerance for unions. Neither did Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Brown (D-Ohio) told the Senate on Thursday. "These autocrats in history don't want independent unions," he said. "Some the worst governments we've ever had -- you know one of the first things they did? They went after the trade unions." Twenty-four hours later, he had second thoughts, explaining that he felt passionately about the current union struggle to ...
Majority Leader Harry Reid Among 'Most Liberal' Senators
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyNew rankings of the Senate's most liberal members -- a list including Harry Reid and powerful committee chairmen Carl Levin and Patrick Leahy -- suggest moderates are fading from the scene on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.), who was elected to a fifth term in November, has become more liberal in his voting record in the past three years, the National Journal said in its annual rankings. The magazine had the Senate leader as the 22nd most liberal lawmaker in 2009 and 25th on its list the year before that. Writer Ronald Brownstein said the vote ratings marked a peak in ...
Facebook Users in Survey Say Republican Pols Handiest With Social Media
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyRepublicans Sarah Palin, Scott Brown and freshman Sen. Marco Rubio get high marks from Facebook users for their social media skills in terms of staying in touch with supporters and constituents in 2010. Facebook, the wildly popular social networking site, asked its members this week to rank politicians and government agencies for their facility in using its pages. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, Sen. Brown (R-Mass.), Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) were rated highly for their regular but unobtrusive use of Facebook, the Washington Post said. More than 2.5 million have ...
Sherrod Brown Urges NFL to End TV Blackout Policy Given Tough Economy
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyThe NFL season got underway this past weekend, and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is worried that some fans hard hit by the faltering economy won't be able to watch games in person or on TV. In a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Brown urged the league to revisit it "blackout" policy that keeps games off local television stations when they are not sold out 72 hours in advance. The Democrat had the interests of Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns fans in mind, the Hill newspaper reports, but those aren't the only ones in danger of having home games blacked out on TV. According to a survey ...
The Health Battles That Won't Die: Lieberman, Taxes, Abortion and (Oh, Yeah!) the House
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenate Majority Leader Harry Reid showed just how ugly legislating can get on Monday night, when he called the members of his exhausted, fractured caucus together for an emergency meeting to discuss health reform. Once inside the large room in the Capitol, he gave them a reality check and a choice. First, the reality check: The only people keeping the Democrats from passing health care reform were other Democrats. Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, had announced the day before that he would filibuster the bill if it contained a Medicare expansion, while a ...
Confused Democrats Appear to Welcome Phil Spector to Their Party
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyYou can imagine how thrilled freshman Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) was by the news that her party was adding a national celebrity to its ranks. After all, the Senator is a huge Ronettes fan and loved the re-orchestration of "The Long and Winding Road"!At least that's what we assume motivated Sen. Gillibrand when she issued a public statement reading: "GILLIBRAND WELCOMES SENATOR SPECTOR TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY."See the only American Spector who's famous enough to be referenced by his last name alone is legendary record producer Phil Spector, architect of hits ranging from "You've Lost That ...
Back to Ohio
By Dave - Politics DailyYahoo! News Obama has long looked for a way to win the White House without the 20 electoral votes of Ohio, the prototypical swing state. His top aides, including his campaign manager, once said they could lose the state and still win the election by picking off states that typically support Republicans. ...The campaign is quietly eyeing a states' map similar to the one used in past elections, with some exceptions. Obama this week dropped advertising in Georgia, a traditionally Republican state that he considered winnable based on increased voter registration among blacks and young people.It ...
McCain/Obama NAFTA Brawl Heats Up
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIt was reported on these pages yesterday that Barack Obama was backing away from his opposition to NAFTA, based on an interview with Fortune magazine. There was an Obama campaign conference call today to discuss John McCain's positions on trade, but I decided it would be a good time to clear up Senator Obama's, first. Tommy Christopher: On the subject of that Fortune interview, I understand (Obama's) core position (worker and environmental protections) hasn't changed, but I believe at the debates, he said we should use a pull-out as a hammer to advance that, so without that, where are the ...
Senator Sherrod Brown in a Quandary
By Dave - Politics DailyEnvironmentalists in Ohio are putting heat on Sherrod Brown: What's interesting about this is that the Ohio economy has taken two body blows in just the last week due primarily to high fuel prices. First DHL decided to give up and outsource their overnight delivery to UPS, which kills about 6,000 jobs in Wilmington, a small community in a rural part of southwest Ohio. And just a few days ago, GM decided to close a truck plant in Dayton. The latter was partially offset by more small cars in Lordstown, but the problem for Sherrod remains. And that's not even getting into the politics around ...
Playing the Gender Card
By Dave - Politics DailyAlthough no one would accuse Hillary Clinton of being shy, I don't think even she would play the Gender card this brazenly. Connie Schultz is a columnist at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the wife of Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), also, apparently, a Hillary Clinton fan: Someone tell me, please, how grown men in 2008 can believe it's their right - their duty, even - to tell a woman when she should rein in her ambition and go home. Male columnists, male politicians, male talking heads, male "surrogates" - all of them harrumphing that it's time for Hillary Clinton to stop it, just stop it, ...
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