• May 27, 2012

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Check out the Senate, guys, they passed two whole major bills on Thursday! Don’t look now, but the JOBS Act to reduce regulations on small businesses and the STOCK Act to prevent insider trading in Congress — both already passed by the House — made it through the Senate by fairly convincing bipartisan margins. Where [...]

RUH-ROH. Can you spot it?! The wicked little Internet trolls are fiddling around on their favorite source of Official History, Wikipedia, to try to embarrass Senator Dick Durbin. We have to admit — it’s a little bit mysterious why anyone would want to pick on this rather harmless lefty Illinois Senator who usually ambles around [...]

After losing the meeting with his appointed death panel (cancer), a brave Houston man speaks out from beyond the grave to stop Barry Hussein. [KRIV] Sen. Ron Johnson says that Obamacare is the greatest assault on freedom in his lifetime, which is true because McCarthyism and Jim Crow were just for laughs. [WSJ] Shakespearean commenter: [...]

Your editor thinks it was adorable when young Riley Waggaman said this morning that “Democrats win” on this whole tax cut thing, because c’mon, Riley, even Democrats themselves don’t think that. You are Thinking Progress too much. According to Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, and “many other House and Senate Democrats,” that strange, menacing smoke monster [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate today. The score was 13 to 6, entirely along party lines except for Lindsey Graham, who voted “YOU GO, GIRL.” Graham said Kagan was “not someone he would have chosen,” according to the Times, as she is not his [...]

While the Senate “cool kids” are off interrogating Elena Kagan about her dinner plans from last December, the rest of the Senators are just left aimlessly wandering around the Capitol, rambling on and on about who knows what. Here’s a clip of David Vitter angrily talking about flood insurance (which obviously costs nothing, especially in [...]

The always admirable Sen. Dick Durbin — Barack Obama’s white father — is super upset with the behavior of this health care debate’s most shameless Senate C-Streeter, Tom Coburn, a dick. He is demanding that Coburn “explain” an earlier prayer call for a Democratic senator to miss tonight’s 1 a.m. cloture vote, SOMEHOW. Hmm. Which [...]

Hmm, don’t recall many Democratic Leaders complaining during the 2008 campaign about Barack Obama’s explicit plan to shut down Guantanamo Bay, the obvious implication being that those with viable charges would be transferred to American (and a few European) prisons to face trial, while others with no charges would be released (and tracked!) in order [...]

It seems DADDY over there in the Senate wants to give “the people” the right to fill Obama’s Senate seat, which would be a vulgar trashing of the Constitution, taking the choice away from the potty-mouth arrested governor who is on tape trying to sell it, for money, and what not.