Think Progress (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) about the House’s historic passage of health care legislation last night. Lieberman said that as a “matter of conscience,” he will join a Republican filibuster if a public option — which has supposedly been put forward “by people who really want [...]
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The left's pressure on centrist Democrats has steadily grown since the health care debate began but MoveOn.org and Democracy for America today launched the most direct threat yet: together, they've secured commitments from 66,000 members to donate a total of $3.5 million to support primary challenges against any Democratic senator who joins a Republican filibuster to block an up-or-down...
American Conservative Daily (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
On MSNBC on October 27, Rachel Maddow interviewed Jane Hamsher, well-known Hollywood roustabout and left-wing blogger for FireDogLake.com. The subject was the progress of Obamacare in the Senate and Senator Joe Lieberman's warning that he might join a Republican filibuster of the Baucus bill if it contained the so-called public option.
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... job-creating businesses. Money for working people? You can imagine what happened, of course. The Republicans went into obstruction mode and began their faux filibuster. Harry Reid called for a cloture vote on Wednesday and it passed 87-13 , every Democrat and most of the Republicans slapping down the worst of the working family fanatics: John Barrasso (R-WY) Kit Bond (R-MO)...
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... House, they squeezed it through with only five. In the Senate, the Democrats need 60 to break a filibuster, and several Democrat Senators have expressed deep reservations about the breadth and expense of the bill . . . and the Senate bill is nowhere near as broad and expensive as Pelosi's. Also, in the House, the minority party cannot control or obstruct the majority. In the Senate, not...
Georgia Newsroom (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
In The End: No Public Option, No Abortions, No Pelosi, No Reid from Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion by William A. Jacobson Joe Lieberman threw a healthy dose of water on the Pelosi-Reid-Obama health care fire this morning, reiterating that he will join in a Republican filibuster of any Senate health care bill which contains a public option. This is [...]
Right Coast (Free subscription) | yesterday
... lawmakers. "It's a huge sum, and the clearest signal yet that any Democrat who helps Republicans filibuster health care reform will face an enormous backlash from the grassroots," writes Ruben. And now, working in conjunction with Howard Dean's old organization Democracy for America, MoveOn is starting a drive to take away the committee chairmanships of any Democrat...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... the chamber does seem likely to weigh in on a public option. And this is where the South Carolina Republican's "dead on arrival" pledge will be tested. Appearing alongside Graham, Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) would not say if the 60 votes were there to cut off a Republican filibuster on a public plan. "We are far from the end of the debate in the Senate," he...
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... upstate New York morning, here's how I read the numbers on the hearing: ZERO Trangender witnesses Republican Senators in attendance ONE Gay witness Big IF ("Sen. Harkin: IF the leadership - Senator Reid - sees an opening, we'll move it.") FOUR Additional Senators needed to stop a Republican filibuster FIVE Democratic Senators in attendance Continue reading "Delaware's...
faith in honest doubt (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... party. I refer, of course, to Joe Lieberman, the former Democrat who now threatens to join a Republican filibuster of the majority's already distressingly watered-down health care bill. Though not a Democrat, Lieberman caucuses with the Democrats, and inasmuch as this means a damn thing, it needs to mean he does not filibuster bills the vast majority of the party's elected...
taxmanblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... lawmakers. "It's a huge sum, and the clearest signal yet that any Democrat who helps Republicans filibuster health care reform will face an enormous backlash from the grassroots," writes Ruben. And now, working in conjunction with Howard Dean's old organization Democracy for America, MoveOn is starting a drive to take away the committee chairmanships of any Democrat who...
Sue's Place (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
He can’t expect to be re-elected, can he? Joe Lieberman (I-Lieberman) was on Fox News Sunday and said: This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) about the House’s historic passage of health care legislation last night. Lieberman said that as a “matter of conscience,” he will join a Republican [...]
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
MoveOn.org and Democracy for America just announced that they’ve raised $2 million dollars and commitments from 66,000 members to bring that total to $3.5 million for the sole purpose of supporting primary challenges against any Democratic senator who joins a Republican filibuster to block an up-or-down vote on health care reform. Given that there [...]
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
If anyone still doubts the teeny weeny Republican pup tent is now basically housing a mental ward for the criminally insane, you're not paying attention. Yesterday the teabaggers' chief spokesman in the U.S. Senate, radical right South Carolina secessionist Jim DeMint, made a spectacle out of himself twice-- before sundown. At noon Harry Reid decided it was time to shut down the mean-spirited...
Shot In The Dark (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In all things political, I urge you to remember Berg’s Seventh Law: whenever liberals attack or mock anything about Republicans or (especially) conservatives, they are projecting or distracting. Two key Dem memes since the immediate aftermath of the 2008 elections have been…: Conservative “tea-baggers” are purging “moderates” from the party, and… …this...
