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The Main Event - The Dems vs. The Dems
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator —
... Boxer — chairing the House and Senate committees that oversee global warming policy is an environmentalist’s dream come true. But will Rust Belt Democrats bite back? * * * Laboring over union bill Opponents call it “card check” and say it oversimplifies the unionizing process and takes away the secret ballot. Advocates call it the Southern Democrats, meanwhile, might call it a trap. Employee Free Choice Act and say it will open up new doors for labor protections. Read it all here and don't forget to buy the popcorn. Posted by Cigar Mike at November 25, 2008 09:18 AM ...
Will Southern Democrats
The Corner on National Review Online —
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Is Obama Doomed To Fail?
Riehl World View —
... This one quote below - tucked away at the bottom of page 2 in this Politico item dealing with Democrats at odds - highlights my chief concern over an Obama Presidency. For all his inflated press, Obama has never really painted himself as a leader, so much as he has a mediator. That sounds great on paper. But it has the potential to be disastrous in the real world. It can raise a number of serious problems. ...
Great news: Obama and McCain agreed to move forward on immigration, says Reid
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... . This is what they’re going to do to pass the time in Congress between bailouts? Jerk around with a hot-button issue guaranteed to enrage all sides and exacerbate Democratic infighting while the economy’s melting down and the Iran nuclear clock ticks on? Why not toss social security onto the table too, just to really get the juices flowing? To believe Reid’s being sincere, you’d have to believe he’s an abject imbecile. Verdict: ...
Can Obama get Democrats to support Card Check?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Barack Obama supported the Employee Free Choice Act, otherwise known as Card Check, as a means to get vigorous union support in the general election. The Democratic Party wants it passed to gain a stronger revenue stream from increased union dues. But can they get Rust Belt and Southern Democrats to play along? Politico wonders whether some new Democrats might wind up joining Republicans for a filibuster: Forget the Republican filibuster and the race to 60. The real fight in the next Congress is Democrats vs. themselves. With nearly complete control of Washington for the ...
GOP Triumphant As Democrats Disintegrate Into Conflict-- In the Fevered Dreams Of Republican Propagandists
DownWithTyranny! —
... Meanwhile an article by Martin Kady in today's Politico, hailed as poppycock by Democrats and as a long lost missing book from the Buy Bull by Republicans, claims that the real action in Washington is not watching the disintegration of the Republican Party but being aghast at a supposed civil war inside the Democratic Party. Oh, it's so dire: ...
Damned Democrats
N/A —
... It could be civil war among the Dems over slave labor issues. The problem? “Less union-friendly Southern states” and their lawmakers may secede from The Union the Democratic majority. History shows southern states have favored getting labor as cheaply as possible often with slaves. That is unlikely to change any time soon. ...
Progressive Republicans: Why Bother?
The Moderate Voice —
... on the variables working against a GOP revivial.)
Progressive Republicans. Conservative Democrats. Seriously: What’s the difference? And if we can’t tell the difference, then I have to repeat my recent broken-recordness and ask again: Why bother with political parties at all — especially when the check-and-balance of “a single-party system with competing factions,” which we’ve seen already on the state level, is starting to manifest on the federal level?
Democrat Divisions Could Spell Republican Opportunity in New Congress
Politics Daily —
... the 40 seats necessary to stage a filibuster and block Democratic initiatives in the Senate, House rules provide no such power for the minority. Democrats will be able to pass virtually any bill they wish, if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) can keep her troops in line. That task may be a daunting one, however, as the larger Democratic majority contains representatives from a diverse collection of factions within the party, which oftentimes have competing interests and beliefs. ...
Will Southern Dems Torpedo Themselves By Voting Card Check?
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston Politico has some interesting analysis on the purported divisions among Democrats going into the future. They may have majority control of Congress on its face, but do they have enough of a controlling majority to push through some of their most egregiously extreme measures like the pro-union card check idea contained in the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)? According to Politico the “fault lines” in the Democratic caucus are soon to be revealed. Unless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) can whip their ...
The truth is still coming out --
The Reaction —
... Democrats also face their own internal divisions in Congress. Politico has a good analysis of how that the differences might play out. To quote: ...
