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May 13 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Against Progressive Plans to Tinker with the Senate
In a provocative Sunday opinion piece for the New York Times, Jamelle Bouie takes aim at the United States Senate. It is “is highly undemocratic and strikingly unrepresentative” institution, dominated by a “Republican coalition of rural whites, exurban whites and anti-tax suburbanites.” This needs to be changed — because everybody knows it is un-American to oppose higher taxes!
Bouie
Guest Writer - RightOct 05 2013
News
Government shutdown: Is there an endgame?
As the country goes into the weekend with the government shut down and neither side talking, there seems to be little hope for breaking the impasse any time soon. And with the days ticking down toward the moment the country runs out of options to meet its debt obligations, the head-butting over funding the government might force Congress to try to work out a deal to get it running again and
CNN (Online News)Dec 16 2019
News
The Decade Big Power Politics Returned
Ten years ago, geopolitical heavyweight combat seemed a figment of the past. Now it shapes everything.
In 2010, the Cold War had been over for 20 years, and superpower tensions seemed a figment of the past. President Barack Obama’s “reset” policy with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, was spurring major initiatives in cooperative diplomacy. Obama’s “pivot” away from the ancient
SlateSep 30 2013
News
Budget showdown a test of wills as shutdown deadline comes into view
With nothing less than the operation of government on the line, the battle in Congress over ObamaCare is shaping into a test of wills as lawmakers face a midnight deadline to resolve their differences or turn out the lights.
For the moment, the ball is in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's court. The House, early Sunday morning, approved a bill that would fund the government past
Fox News DigitalMar 12 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Republicans Stop Paying Attention
From the CenterThis viewpoint is from a writer rated Center.
Joe Biden has succeeded in passing the largest expansion of domestic government spending and the most targeted expansion of aid to low-income Americans in more than fifty years. Bernie Sanders tweeted that the legislation was “the most progressive bill he’s seen pass since he’s been here” and that it was “the most
Dan SchnurJun 18 2012
News
For Romney, road to White House runs through nation’s Rust Belt
Mitt Romney is trying to do something that Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s 2008 presidential nominee, could not — shore up enough support among the rural, blue-collar voters in such Rust Belt states as Pennsylvania and Ohio to win the White House.
The former Massachusetts governor chased after those voters over the Father's Day weekend as part of a six-state bus tour in which
Washington TimesOct 14 2020
Analysis
Amy Coney Barrett: Scalia protege in outlook, not temperament
Jennifer Brady, a centrist Democrat and former English professor at Rhodes College, can’t reconcile two things: her strong admiration for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett – one of the top two students she had in 36 years of teaching – and her deep concern about Senate Republicans pushing through her nomination so late in an election year.
“Had the Republicans not cynically
Christian Science MonitorFeb 14 2013
News
Why Obama's Minimum Wage Plan Really Worries The GOP And Business Lobby
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) only needed a single night's sleep before throwing cold water on one of the most significant proposals put forth by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address Tuesday night: raising the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour and pegging it to inflation.
"When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it,"
HuffPostSep 15 2013
News
McCain: Obama Deal Puts Russia in Position to Aid Assad
Sen. John McCain on Sunday criticized the Obama administration's deal with Russia to rid Syria of chemical weapons saying it would enable the former Communist regime to launch an internal attack on Damascus.
"If it works, we are going to see the Russians facilitating the departure of chemical weapons while planeload after planeload of Russian aircraft coming into Damascus are full of
Newsmax (News)Sep 14 2013
News
Obama maintains military pressure on Syria
The United States will maintain the threat of military force against Syria with efforts underway to diplomatically place its chemical weapons under international control, President Barack Obama said on Saturday.
His comments came as Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, continued their initial round of talks in Geneva on ways to forge a peaceful
CNN (Online News)