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Adieu, Adieu, Remember Me
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McConnell Pushing Vote to Block the EPA from Regulating Carbon Emissions
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The Spectacle Blog
This time last year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was racing frantically against the clock to try to ram through the national health care bill before the chamber adjourned for Christmas, but with Democrats holding a 60-vote majority, the only hope for opponents of the bill was that so-called moderates such as Sens. Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman — or maybe a liberal upset about the lack of a public option — would support a GOP filibuster. In the end, Republicans’ dragged things out but were ultimately helpless to stop the freight train. Yet a year later — in no small part because of they succeeded in passing the health care bill into law — Democrats find themselves in a much weaker position, and suddenly had to drop an omnibus spending bill that once would have sailed through.
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hookah | 12.16.10 @ 9:36PM
wating forword the results
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.16.10 @ 10:32PM
...One step uphill on the slippery slope.
Well done, fellow Americans!
Deborah D | 12.16.10 @ 11:29PM
Amen, Ken!! I'm so sick of this Congress -- they should be run out of town on a rail! 13% approval rating -- I see pitchforks! :)
Alan Brooks| 12.16.10 @ 10:54PM
It wont go anywhere: you want the state to help your people; multiply that by 300 million people, and what do you have?
Landon Jensen| 12.17.10 @ 1:55AM
Hey folks!Support you, keep it up I’ve been your blog for some times, your post is unique, nice work.laser pointer
Rightmindedmom| 12.17.10 @ 8:39AM
OK. The tax package has been passed. That's It! No more passing bills in the lame duck, Republicans -- you have 42 Senators now, with Mark Kirk being seated immediately. You can stop ALL bills until 2011!! Show some cajones!! We who voted on November 2nd are watching you!!