Tag: Senate

Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Closer to Reality in New Jersey

Ear to the Ground: SOPA and PIPA Put on Hold

Reports: The Day the Internet Roared

Reports: Two Jerks

Ear to the Ground: Obama Gets His Way With Consumer Bureau Pick

Reports: Obama Benefits From Republican Civil War

A/V Booth: Obama Gives Boehner, Reid an Earful on Deadlock

Ear to the Ground: House Nixes Tax-Break Bill

Reports: Three Supreme Court Cases That Should Worry You

Reports: Bernie Sanders Explains Why Congress Fears Citizens United

Reports: Banana Republicans’ Assault on Democracy

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Ear to the Ground: Senate Rejects Another Top Candidate for Consumer Panel

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes to Keep Detention Clauses in Military Bill

A/V Booth: Defense Bill Proposes Indefinite Detention for American Citizens

Ear to the Ground: Survey: Number of Religious Lobbying Groups in D.C. Is Up Fivefold

Reports: The Republicans Aren’t Funny, They’re Scary

Ear to the Ground: Gov’t Shutdown Crisis Averted (Again)

Ear to the Ground: Study: Nearly Half of Congress Members Are Millionaires

Reports: The Rise of the Reverse Houdinis

Ear to the Ground: Schumer Sees Democrats Hanging On to Senate

Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Bags $3 Million

Reports: Refuting Straw Liberals

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Occupiers Make Gains

Ear to the Ground: Senate Democrats Propose the Rich Pay for Jobs Bill

Ear to the Ground: Disaster Bill Rejection Boosts Likelihood of Government Shutdown

Ear to the Ground: Adm. Mullen Says Pakistan Intelligence Supports Bombers

Ear to the Ground: From Top to Bottom, Supercommittee Is in the War Lobby’s Pocket

Ear to the Ground: House Rejects Government Funding Bill

Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace

Reports: Unhappy Democrats Threaten Obama Jobs Bill

Reports: Preserving Life (Unless It’s Uninsured)

Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Is Running for the Senate

Reports: Franken Calls for Oversight of Ratings Agencies

Reports: Wisconsin: Conservatives Win, Liberals Gain

Reports: Another Bailout Joins the Goofball Economy

Ear to the Ground: Wisconsin Republicans Win Recall Battle, 4-2

Ear to the Ground: Temporary Deal Has FAA Back Up and Running

Reports: Who Wants to Go Back to the ’50s?

Reports: The World Has Been Watching

Ear to the Ground: Senate OKs Debt Deal, Obama Makes It Official (Updated)

Ear to the Ground: House Democrats Rescue GOP to Pass Debt Compromise

Ear to the Ground: Debt Deal to Cut at Least $1 Trillion (Video)

Cartoons: Debt Crisis

Cartoons: Divided Government

Cartoons: Herding Congress

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Boehner’s Bill, Senate Bats It Down

Reports: Why China Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank

Reports: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

Reports: The Limits of Compromise

Ear to the Ground: Senate Democrats Angry Over Obama ‘Sellout’

Reports: Blowing Up the House

Reports: ‘Dysfunctional’ Too Polite to Describe Tea Party Congress

Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Out, Another Bank Critic to Lead Consumer Agency

Reports: Why Did Congress Waste Six Months?

Cartoons: Default Answer

Reports: Obama Can’t Celebrate Yet

Cartoons: Circle Jerk

Reports: Obama’s Raw Deal?

Cartoons: Eat the Poor

Cartoons: Elephant Trunks

Reports: Washington Dysfunction: A Scorecard

Reports: Calling the GOP’s Bluff

Cartoons: Crossroads

Ear to the Ground: Disappointment in Rhode Island

Reports: John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas

Ear to the Ground: Blagojevich Guilty 17 Times Over

Ear to the Ground: Hacktivist Outfit LulzSec Says Bon Voyage

Cartoons: Scared of a Little Compromise

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill

Reports: Obama Is Wrong on War Powers

Reports: Washington’s Deeper Immorality

Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Vote Down to the Wire in N.Y. State

A/V Booth: Bernie Sanders Goes After the Oil Industry

Ear to the Ground: Hack Attack: Senate, CIA Sites Take a Hit

Reports: Gridlocking the Lives of the Jobless

Reports: The Party of Righteous Indignation

Ear to the Ground: Where Are They Now: Corporate Democrat Edition

Ear to the Ground: General Passed Over for Giving Obama Advice

Ear to the Ground: Four More Years of Wiretapping Fun

Ear to the Ground: Wisconsin Is Ready for a Feingold Comeback

A/V Booth: Senators Give Post-bin Laden Prognoses

Ear to the Ground: Congress Dances to the Edge, Averts Shutdown

Reports: Why the Reckless Republicans Win

Ear to the Ground: With Libya, Sec. Gates Puts His Foot Down

Reports: The High Cost of a Broken Metaphor

Reports: What Wisconsin Can Teach Washington

Ear to the Ground: GOP Senators Find a Workaround, Win Wis. Bill Battle

Reports: Don’t Ice Out Public Media

Ear to the Ground: First Wisconsin, Now Ohio

Reports: The FCC, Net Neutrality and the Future Enrons of the Internet

Reports: Obama and the Failure of the Deficit Hawks

Reports: The Leadership Vacuum

Reports: Can Obama Be Luke Skywalker?

Reports: Lessons From Our Egypt Moment

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Repeal Shot Down in Senate

Reports: Without Obama, We Lose So Much More Than an Election

Reports: It’s Repeal That’s Ailing

Ear to the Ground: Al Franken Blasts the FCC

Reports: Fudging the Facts on Health Care and Deficits

Ear to the Ground: House Huffs, Puffs, Blows Health Care Down

Reports: Health Care and the New Civility

Reports: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

Reports: Washington Loves a Paradox

Reports: Filibuster This Plan

Ear to the Ground: GOP Gears Up to Take Down Health Care Reform

Reports: Wrong Again, Sen. Graham

Reports: Health Care Melodrama

Reports: Celebrating the New GOP Majority

Reports: A Snow-Filled Glimpse of America’s Future

Reports: A Recess Appointment That Makes Sense

Ear to the Ground: Gorbachev Takes Stock of New START

Ear to the Ground: O’Donnell Accused of Dipping Into the Campaign Till

Reports: A Reality Check for the GOP

Reports: For Biden, Mission Accomplished

Ear to the Ground: GOP Gets Ready to Rumble in 2011

Reports: Sept. 11 Heroes Disdained on the Right

Reports: The Pride of ‘Obama’s Orphans’

Ear to the Ground: Senate Lets Sharks Keep Their Fins for Christmas

Reports: Undocumented Students Give Congress an F

Reports: ‘Don’t Ask’: Not Quite Fa La La Just Yet

Arts and Culture: White House Looks to Jon Stewart in 9/11 Health Bill Bid

Reports: Obama Scores a Victory, Along With Some Vindication

Ear to the Ground: Congress Heads for Holiday Overtime

Ear to the Ground: Russia Fires Off START Warning

Ear to the Ground: Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Draws Near

Ear to the Ground: Dream Act Is Dead for This Year

Ear to the Ground: Congress Passes Obama-Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

Cartoons: How the Senate Should Vote

Reports: Everything Is Negotiable, Except Nature

Reports: So Far Health Care Rulings Are Disturbingly Predictable

Reports: Labels Aren’t the Problem

Ear to the Ground: House Passes DADT Repeal

Ear to the Ground: Senate Vote Boosts Obama’s Tax-Cut Bid

A/V Booth: Senate Shoots Down DADT Repeal

Reports: Obama Speaks Ill of His Allies

Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal Headed for a Vote

Reports: Can Democrats ‘Up Their Game’?

Ear to the Ground: Those Dreadful Geico Commercials Are About to Get Quieter

Reports: The Grinch Who Stole Washington

Reports: Where Is Obama Going?

Ear to the Ground: Senate GOP Plans Bill-Blocking Spree

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes to Beef Up the FDA

Reports: Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion

Reports: Calling the Bluff on Deficits

Reports: Look Who’s the Decider Now

Ear to the Ground: The Day China Diverted the Internet

Ear to the Ground: Senate May Consider Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal

Reports: The Earmark Sideshow

Reports: Saying Goodbye to Compassionate Conservatism

Ear to the Ground: Republicans Give Up Pork

Ear to the Ground: Murkowski’s Miracle on Ice

Reports: A Lame and Spineless Duck?

Reports: Do Only Conservative Victories Count?

Reports: Wanted: Mojo All Around

Ear to the Ground: Senate to Drop ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal

Reports: From Uprising to Hostile Takeover ... and Back Again

Reports: A Third Party?

Reports: Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Reports: And Now for the Next Battle

Ear to the Ground: Republicans Take the House, Democrats Keep the Senate (Update)

Ear to the Ground: Rand Paul Makes It Official

Reports: The World Is Safer Without a Republican House

Reports: Christine O’Donnell Favors Separation of Speech and Thought

Reports: The Mondo-Bizarro Campaign

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Urged the Democrat to Drop Out of Florida’s Senate Race

Reports: Why Anita Hill’s Testimony Matters

A/V Booth: Angle: Reid Is Trying to ‘Steal’ Nevada Election

Reports: Joe Sestak’s Witching Hour

Reports: Annoyer in Chief

Ear to the Ground: GOP on Track to Take the House

Ear to the Ground: Fiorina Heads to the Hospital

Ear to the Ground: BP and Other Polluters Pay for Senate Campaigns

Reports: What If? So What?

Ear to the Ground: McConnell: Ousting Obama Is GOP’s Top Goal

Reports: The Scandal of 2010

Ear to the Ground: Obama Steps Up for Boxer

Reports: Thugs on the Right

A/V Booth: Christine O’Donnell’s Staggering Ignorance

Reports: Don’t Man Up, Grow Up

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Brain’s Brain?

Reports: The Wave and the Reality

A/V Booth: Christine O’Donnell, Auto-Tuned

Reports: The GOP’s Triple Play

Reports: Looney, and That’s No Debate

Ear to the Ground: O’Donnell Drops the Marx Bomb in Delaware Debate

Reports: They All Do It

Reports: A Generation of Termites

A/V Booth: Run and Tell That, Christine O’Donnell

Reports: Tory vs. Voodoo Conservatism

Reports: Will Black Voters Respond to Obama’s Needs?

Reports: The Shadow Class War of 2010

Reports: Needed: Competition for Black Votes

Reports: Tea Party Socialism

Cartoons: Lawyers Run America

Arts and Culture: Congress Dials Down TV Commercials

Ear to the Ground: Rahmbo Resignation Announcement Coming Friday

Reports: Look Who’s Killing Jobs Now

Reports: Obama and the Progressive Paradox

Ear to the Ground: China vs. the House of Representatives

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