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The Slaughter House Rules

By Trenton Hansen

How far is too far for the Democrats?
Louise Slaughter, a Pelosi minion and Chair of the powerful House Rules Committee, is considering a rule that would allow the House Democrats to pass a corrections bill that would automatically assume a majority vote on the Senate version of the health care reform bill, thus ensuring that [...]

Health Care Reform vs. The Rule Of Law

By Trenton Hansen

Apparently, Nancy Pelosi thinks she’s got Americans buffaloed.
Fox News has video (see below) of Ms. Pelosi saying we have to pass the health care reform bill “so we can see what’s in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
First of all, that’s not what I would call “transparency,” Madam Speaker. Keeping from us the [...]

Intellectual Dishonesty At MediaMatters

By Trenton Hansen

Caught in a lie.
That’s essentially how Republicans and Conservative talkers have been described by MediaMatters.org and other liberal bloggers.
But a quick Google search revealed that MediaMatters is being dishonest in its portrayal of Conservatives and Republicans as trying to “falsely accuse Dems of hypocrisy.” In fact, MediaMatters actually expose their own complicity in the promotion [...]


How Reconciliation Violates Senate Rules

By Trenton Hansen

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich gives an excellent explanation of the Reconciliation process being tossed about in the Legislature as a way of circumventing a Republican filibuster and passing ObamaCare with a simple majority.
Harry Reid flat-out lied when he said “nobody is talking about reconciliation” as a way to pass the health care [...]

More ‘Global Warming’ in Store For North-East This Weekend

By Trenton Hansen

The ‘Global Warming’ that has caused record-breaking blizzards on the East Coast will deliver yet another punch this weekend. According to bloomberg.com, another major winter storm could drop as much as 13 inches of new snow on New York by Saturday evening.
Alarmists have insisted that such heavy snows are the result of global warming or [...]

Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Democrat

By Trenton Hansen

Harry Reid has strongly criticized Republicans who object to the methods being brought to bear to get Barack Obama’s health care reform package passed into law. “…realistically, they should stop crying about this. It’s been done 21 times before,” he said.
Reid is correct that it has been done before, but never has it been [...]

NY Times: Global Warming Causes Record-Breaking Snow

By Trenton Hansen

The New York Times is asserting that global warming may be the cause for the recent snowfall that has smashed previous records in Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
The previous record for Washington D.C. was set in the 1860’s winter of 1898-99, which prompts a question. Does the New York Times also believe that the previous [...]

Congressman John Murtha, Dead at 77

By Trenton Hansen

From the AP report…
U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77.
The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., spokesman Matthew Mazonkey said.
Yet another seat unexpectedly open. [...]

Progressive Reaction To Brown’s Victory

By Trenton Hansen

Can we please stop pretending that Liberals Progressives are decent people?
The good folks over at HotAir.com have compiled a list of responses from the nutroots on three different Progressive sites. As they say, it ain’t pretty (Warning: Language).
You have to wonder how some of these people can justify their ideology, when what they propose is [...]

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    WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.... […]
  • Pa. GOP picks Burns as nominee for Murtha's seat March 12, 2010
    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Republicans in Pennsylvania have nominated a political newcomer to fill the congressional seat of the late Rep. John Murtha.... […]
  • Report: Obama to tap Yellen to be Fed vice chair March 12, 2010
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is planning to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of central bank in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported.... […]
  • Reid's wife, daughter injured in highway accident March 12, 2010
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife was hospitalized with a broken back and neck Thursday after a tractor-trailer truck slammed into the back of the minivan in which she and their daughter were riding on an interstate highway in suburban Virginia, officials said.... […]
  • Obama says he's committed to immigration overhaul March 12, 2010
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken. What remains unclear is whether Congress will send him a bill this year.... […]
  • Obama pushes trade initiative as jobs helper March 12, 2010
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work. But doubts remain about how many net jobs his trade agenda will create - and how he will get it done.... […]
  • US criticizes China's domestic, economic policies March 12, 2010
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration accused China on Thursday of abusing its citizens' rights and maintaining currency policies that cost millions of U.S. jobs, a double-barrel attack that comes amid a growing willingness to confront and even antagonize the Asian power.... […]
  • Gov't may seek more authority on vehicle safety March 12, 2010
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government vehicle safety regulators may seek greater authority to investigate defects in cars and trucks and are weighing a range of new safety requirements in response to Toyota's recall of more than 8 million vehicles over brake and acceleration problems.... […]
  • Dodd to offer his own financial regulation bill March 11, 2010
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- With one eye on the calendar and the other on elusive bipartisanship, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.... […]
  • Senate seeks to boost regional airline safety March 11, 2010
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is pushing to strengthen pilot training and hiring requirements in an effort to improve the safety of regional airlines, a problem exposed by an air crash last year that killed 50 people.... […]