Someone needs to tell the Caroline Kennedy the upper house of Congress is not the House of Lords. The party that claims to represent middle and working class Americans is seriously considering appointing a daughter of a former president with no public office experience to the Senate seat currently occupied by the wife of a [...]
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111th Congress: The Oldest Congress Ever
Hats off to USA Today, which points out that: Barack Obama, one of the youngest presidents ever to take the oath of office when he’s inaugurated Jan. 20, will be working with the nation’s oldest Congress. The average age will be 57 in the House and 63 in the Senate, according to the chambers’ historical [...]
Political New Year’s Wishes
On New Year’s Eve, my family always follows the tradition of eating twelve grapes, one at a time, and making a wish per grape. The wishes are supposed to involve something we want to accomplish during the upcoming year. If I make twelve political wishes tonight, this is what they’d be: For a special election [...]
Open Forum: A Republican Solution to the Detriot Woes?
Late last week, Republicans in the Senate successfully blocked a $14 bailout package for the so-called “big three” of the automotive industry, but President Bush and the Democrats continue to try to find some sort of deal that will permit the passage of the legislation. Regardless of where you stood on the bailout (I personally [...]
A Center-Right Country? The Data Speaks for Itself
The Daily Kos chimes in on the discussion about this nation’s overall political ideology, quoting MyDD about what the results of the Georgia run-off and this year’s Congressional elections as a whole say about the makeup of the electorate. MyDD’s conclusion, based on the number of Republican and Democratic Senators in each state, is as [...]