There’s been a lot of debate on the topic (no pun intended, well, actually I think it’s a fantastic pun so, I’m going to use it!), but what exactly happened last night on the floor of the Senate vis-a-vis last night’s vote on Healthcare Reform is something worth investigating and explaining.
If you go to the Senate website and take a look at the Senate’s Legislative Process guide (.pdf link), you’ll see pretty clearly exactly what happened last night . . . and why what happened last night is so extraordinary.
For starters, what happened last night was not a vote [ more . . . ]
It’s past 8PM on Saturday evening on November 21, 2009, and the United States Senate just voted — weirdly enough — on one of the most critical votes of the year, if not perhaps a generation, that of proceeding with debate on Healthcare Reform.
I say ‘weirdly enough’ because it’s actually a really simple procedural vote that has since become perhaps THE most contentious vote of the year. Simply put, NO Republican wants to even talk about Healthcare Reform. And that’s embarrassing to us as a Nation and to the Republican Party, in particular.
Again, NO Republican actually wanted to formally talk [ more . . . ]
Elections can be funny things some times — Take Senator Al Franken winning in Minnesota!
What’s interesting — and what I picked up on Twitter thanks to @KatyinIndy — is that the vote in New York’s 23rd district is still being counted. More importantly, the gap in votes between the ‘winner’, Bill Owens, and the principle ‘looser’, Doug Hoffman, is tightening, though it’s still a fairly wide margin. And that raises an interesting question, exactly how / why was Bill Owens sworn into office on Friday, November 6?
Well, it’s an interesting question — and I do think this is worth looking [ more . . . ]
I love Sarah Palin — She’s the verbal gaffe equivalent of President Ford occasionally falling down a set of stairs while disembarking from Air Force One. Just the other day she offered this in response to Doug Hoffman having lost the House election on November 3rd . . .
“The race for New York’s 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010.” . . . “I commend Doug Hoffman and all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds.”
- Sarah Palin’s Facebook page
Ok, with that loopy Sarah Palin logic, let’s [ more . . . ]
Senator Lieberman, take the weekend. Heck, take Monday, too, if you need to. But, please, PLEASE, decide which Party you want to be a part of and show allegiance to.
It’s not just that you’re wasting my time, though — believe me — you are. It’s that I worry about you. I mean, you’re a Senator for God’s sake. You’re one of the most powerful people in the Country. And you can’t seem to make your mind up about which Party you want to be a part of — Gosh, that has got to be stressful!
Unless he does something similarly reprehensible in the future, we’re just going to document that Representative Joe Wilson has clearly elected to sidestep his apology to President Obama vis-a-vis Representative Wilson’s “You lie!” shout in the middle of the President’s address to Congress . . and be done with it.
We’re not going to take screenshots — We’re simply going to state the facts, that at 2.28PM Friday, September 18, 2009, Representative Wilson’s website featured . . .
This is a quick update on the Joe Wilson House Website Watch (#JWHWW on Twitter). Apparently Representative Wilson can go out and play on a sunny Saturday when his House website is still not finished.
Interesting. Representative Joe Wilson shouts at the President of the United States during an address to Congress last night, and the first thing Representative Wilson launches on his House website is this?
Congressman Joe Wilson’s Biography
From his involvement as a Teenage Republican at the High School of Charleston in 1962 to his current work [ more . . . ]
Representative Joe Wilson's Congressional Website 'Out-of-Order' at 11:34PM ET, September 10, 2009
Look, I’m not an IT professional, but I’m well technical enough to sniff out internet trickery. If you visited Representative Joe Wilson’s House website just a few minutes ago, what you would have seen is what’s posted to the right.
It may be a little hard to read in the scaled-down version, but the message at the bottom of the [ more . . . ]
