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Townhall: John C. Goodman: A Republican Vision For Health Care Reform

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  The thing about the Republican critique of the Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare, especially from the Tea Party, that has probably annoyed me the most, is the fact that they’ve never been able to present an alternative … Continue reading →

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The New Yorker: Jeffrey Frank: Rand Paul & The Eisenhower Dream

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Back in the day, before, lets say, the Religious Right era, the Republican Party was essentially a classically conservative, if not conservative, libertarian party that used phrases like “Get big government out of my wallet, bedrooms, classrooms, … Continue reading →

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Associated Press: U.S. Senate Blocks President Obama’s Pick For Civil Rights Post

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Wow, President Obama losing a vote on one of his executive nominations in a Democratic Senate with a clear 55-45 majority, where the minority can no longer block executive nominations by themselves. This loss has to do … Continue reading →

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C-SPAN: Nadie Cohodas: Strom Thurmond Biography: The Politics of Southern Change (1993)

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  The best thing I can say about Senator Strom Thurmond, as someone who is not a fan, is that he was a reformed segregationist who reformed his views and rhetoric as the predominant views changed, even in … Continue reading →

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Thom Hartmann: Video: Mike Papantonio: Our Looming Judicial Crisis

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat At risk of sounding completely inside the beltway and like a congressional junky who knows too much about U.S. Senate rules, Senate Democrats should consider a new rule and even do it with a 51-vote majority necessary … Continue reading →

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PBS: NewsHour: Shields & Brooks on the Debt Limit Drama & Health Care Reform

Posted on February 16, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  The whole debt limit debate in Congress was really about the 2014 mid-term congressional elections for House and Senate Republicans who want to add to their House majority and win back the Senate and not see another … Continue reading →

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Thom Hartmann: Video: President Obama’s 2013 State of The Union: A Report Card

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Derik Schneider

. This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in his first speech in the 111th Congress back in 2009, laid out the Senate Republican strategy at least if not the Congressional … Continue reading →

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The Fiscal Times: Eric Pianin: Get Ready For One-Party Rule if GOP Wins The Senate

Posted on January 16, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  I blogged last night that best ways to fix Washington as far as the national political scene goes, is first by fixing Congress. And that starts in the upper chamber the U.S. Senate. The U.S. House of … Continue reading →

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: It’s Time for Better Ideas

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Rik Schneider

. Source:The New Democrat  Minority Leader Mitch McConnell actually sounding constructive instead of obstructive here in talking about expanding educational and job training opportunities for unemployed workers as part of a deal that would extend Unemployment Insurance for these long-term … Continue reading →

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GOP Weekly Address: Video: U.S. Senate Thad Cochran With the GOP’s Weekly ObamaCare Statement

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Rik Schneider

. This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger The GOP’s one horse race is ObamaCare even though that is not the only issue Americans are interested in. And if you look at the weak December jobs … Continue reading →

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