red states rule
11-15-2010, 04:50 AM
The liberal media is telling the fired Dems to ignore the results of the election and continue to ram thru the agenda the voters do not want
I do not know what is worse. The arrogance of elected liberals, or the arrogance of the liberal media;. Both refuse to admit they lost this eelcetion but they are determined to punish the voters
Congress faces an enormous amount of unfinished business, largely because of successful GOP obstruction tactics during the regular session. Republican senators who declare themselves moderate helped block action on important bills, objecting to provisions they didn't like or to Democratic procedural maneuvers.
Thus did Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Scott Brown of Massachusetts give themselves permission to fall in line behind their party's leadership even as they continued to claim true independence.
Okay, let's test that. One of the bills blocked was the Disclose Act, designed to end the scandal of secret money in election campaigns. If this year's contests prove anything, it's that voters should have the right to know which millionaires, corporations and special interests are flooding the airwaves with attack ads on behalf of candidates who can blithely deny any connection to the slander and any knowledge of who might be trying to buy influence.
Shortly after the election, Michael Isikoff and Rich Gardella of NBC News reported that one of the big Republican secret-money groups, Crossroads GPS, got "a substantial portion" of its money "from a small circle of extremely wealthy Wall Street hedge fund and private equity moguls." These contributors "have been bitterly opposed to a proposal by congressional Democrats - and endorsed by the Obama administration - to increase the tax rates on compensation that hedge funds pay their partners."
It shouldn't take investigative reporting after the fact for voters to learn such things. Snowe, Collins and Brown say they are for disclosure, as does Mark Kirk, the new Republican senator from Illinois. Senate Democratic leaders should give them a chance to prove it by bringing up the bill.
Another casualty in the regular session was legislation to end the military's foolish "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Again, Collins is a key player. We now have a court decision declaring the policy invalid and the military is reportedly ready to declare that ending discrimination against gays would not harm the armed forces. It's often said that the elected branches, not the courts, should make decisions of this sort. Fine. Let the Senate get it done.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid won a bruising reelection campaign partly because of strong support from Latino voters. He should keep his promise to bring up the Dream Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who arrived here as children if they attend college or join the military.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/14/AR2010111403762.html
I do not know what is worse. The arrogance of elected liberals, or the arrogance of the liberal media;. Both refuse to admit they lost this eelcetion but they are determined to punish the voters
Congress faces an enormous amount of unfinished business, largely because of successful GOP obstruction tactics during the regular session. Republican senators who declare themselves moderate helped block action on important bills, objecting to provisions they didn't like or to Democratic procedural maneuvers.
Thus did Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Scott Brown of Massachusetts give themselves permission to fall in line behind their party's leadership even as they continued to claim true independence.
Okay, let's test that. One of the bills blocked was the Disclose Act, designed to end the scandal of secret money in election campaigns. If this year's contests prove anything, it's that voters should have the right to know which millionaires, corporations and special interests are flooding the airwaves with attack ads on behalf of candidates who can blithely deny any connection to the slander and any knowledge of who might be trying to buy influence.
Shortly after the election, Michael Isikoff and Rich Gardella of NBC News reported that one of the big Republican secret-money groups, Crossroads GPS, got "a substantial portion" of its money "from a small circle of extremely wealthy Wall Street hedge fund and private equity moguls." These contributors "have been bitterly opposed to a proposal by congressional Democrats - and endorsed by the Obama administration - to increase the tax rates on compensation that hedge funds pay their partners."
It shouldn't take investigative reporting after the fact for voters to learn such things. Snowe, Collins and Brown say they are for disclosure, as does Mark Kirk, the new Republican senator from Illinois. Senate Democratic leaders should give them a chance to prove it by bringing up the bill.
Another casualty in the regular session was legislation to end the military's foolish "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Again, Collins is a key player. We now have a court decision declaring the policy invalid and the military is reportedly ready to declare that ending discrimination against gays would not harm the armed forces. It's often said that the elected branches, not the courts, should make decisions of this sort. Fine. Let the Senate get it done.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid won a bruising reelection campaign partly because of strong support from Latino voters. He should keep his promise to bring up the Dream Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who arrived here as children if they attend college or join the military.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/14/AR2010111403762.html