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Iran's Historic Anniversary
Stephen Lendman,
Feb 12, 4:09 am
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NATO's Secret War on Syria
Stephen Lendman,
Feb 11, 4:31 am
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America's Sham Economic Recovery
Stephen Lendman,
Feb 11, 3:55 am
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Murdering Khadar Adnan
Stephen Lendman,
Feb 10, 3:34 am
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Act Up Against ACTA
Stephen Lendman,
Feb 9, 4:10 am
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Gaza: Isolated Under Siege
Stephen Lendman,
Feb 9, 3:46 am
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PERSONAL INTEGRITY BY L. RON HUBBARD
consuelo palacios,
Feb 8, 8:50 pm
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HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Consuelo Palacios,
Feb 8, 2:59 pm
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Senate
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Rich Gardner | 08.08.2010
If, as many fear, the Republicans manage to take over one or both house of Congress? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) indicates that he's been entirely happy with his strategy to block or at least delay, pretty much everything the Obama Administration has tried to do since January 2009.
WaPo columnist David Broder reports that the following remark of McConnell's leaves him skeptical:
McConnell ascribed much of the distress both Packer and I had recorded to the natural impatience of new members. The Senate, he said, "takes a bit of getting used to." But if they stick it out, these newcomers will learn to love the old rules, he said, and abandon their foolish impulse to change them.
No, it's wildly unprecedented to force the Senate to get just about every bill through on the basis of a supermajority of 60 to 40 in order to get around the filibuster. Broder holds out hope:
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Rich Gardner | 08.06.2010
There are two ways in which one can write about political problems: the vague, fuzzy, "above it all" way that gives citizens no idea of how to go about solving those problems or one can clearly lay out what the problems are and who is to blame for those problems.
Two very refreshing pieces today say a lot about all this bipartisan-y wunnerful goodness of being "above the fray" and "objective" and all that nonsense. A WaPo columnist asks another WaPo columnist, David Broder, about Broder's column on the dysfunctionality of the Senate. Sargent agrees with Broder that the Senate is dysfunctional. Broder quotes a Republican Senator to that effect:
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EFCANOW | 02.08.2010
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced Monday evening that he will support a Republican-led filibuster over President Barack Obama's nominee to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.
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Rich Gardner | 01.20.2010
Why did the Democratic Party lose what seemed a sure thing? Simple. President Obama was too far off to the right-wing side of the national debate. He needed to run things closer to the way his base thought about things.
Well, Al Franken was sworn in as the Democrats' 60th Senator on the 7th of July 2009 and a bit less than 200 days later, on the 19th of January 2010, Democrats lost the special election held in Massachusetts in which the late Senator Ted Kennedy was replaced. As the fake-news comedian Jon Stewart put it, "the Democrats won't be able to pass health care reform with an 18-vote majority," a majority that George W. Bush NEVER had and remember, he could do whatever the %#@ he wanted to do!!!
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Pennsylvania Worker News | 04.20.2009
Hello? These are Pennsylvania residents whom the senator represents. This is the way you treat your constituents?
Specter Staff Threatens to Trash Letters in Support of Employee Free Choice
by Pennsylvania Worker News Monday, Apr. 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Hello? These are Pennsylvania residents whom the senator represents. This is the way you treat your constituents?
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