Picture credit: Hillbuzz “I’m tired of looking and feeling fat. Maybe talking about it publicly will keep me on track as I try to be more disciplined. Off to the gym.” –Sen.McCaskill tweet Senator, after November 2012, we predict you’ll have plenty of extra time to work on your weight and your self image!

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Following House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer’s (D-MD) announcement of his opposition to a proposed executive order from the White House to force government contractors to disclose their personal political donations, more Democrats in Congress are declaring their opposition today. Politico reports, “Two key members of the Senate Democratic Caucus are criticizing President Barack Obama’s draft […]

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Multiple press accounts yesterday reported that House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the 2nd-ranking Democrat in the House, signaled his opposition to a proposed executive order from President Obama that would require federal contractors to disclose their political donations prior to being chosen for a contract. The AP wrote, “The second-ranking House Democrat said Tuesday […]

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The Washington Examiner reported last week, “According to Republican sources on the Hill, President Obama may be days away from signing an Executive Order that would make many provisions of the failed DISCLOSE Act law by fiat. As we reported last month, the order would require all companies that sign contracts with the federal government […]

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The New York Times reported yesterday, “Linking two of the politically volatile issues of the moment, Senate Democrats say they will move forward this week with a plan that would eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies and divert the savings to offset the deficit. . . . ‘Big Oil certainly doesn’t need the collective […]

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Bloomberg News reports today, “Vice President Joe Biden welcomed congressional leaders for talks to begin ‘the hard business’ of negotiating an agreement on reducing long-term government deficits. . . . The White House doesn’t plan to offer a new proposal beyond the approach President Barack Obama outlined last month to cut $4 trillion from deficits […]

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Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed cloture on the nomination of John “Jack” McConnell, a controversial Rhode Island trial lawyer, to be a district judge. A cloture vote on his nomination could come as early as Wednesday this week. When President Obama sent his nomination to the Senate last year, The Wall […]

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Despite my reservations for using East St. Louis Board of Elections registration data, it is all that I have at this time. They claim that we have 22,459 registered voters and this means that 14.4% of all registered voters used the absentee ballot. Looking closer, we see that 42.4% of all voters participating (7,649), or […]

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The Washington Post (and almost every other news outlet) reports today, “Osama bin Laden, the long-hunted al-Qaeda leader and chief architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, was killed by U.S. forces Sunday in what officials described as a surgical raid on his luxury hideout in Pakistan. In a rare […]

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Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told reporters on a conference call that he would be holding a Senate vote on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget. Of course, the Democrat-controlled Senate still has not offered or voted on its own budget proposal. In a statement today, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell […]

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