Democrat Talk

Rep. Patrick KennedyRep. Patrick Kennedy, (D-R.I), following the example of his father, the late Senator Edward Kennedy,  who on the Senator floor often railed for justice and common decency, railed this afternoon against the Media. In  a very emotional speech on the House floor, he  ripped into media, said that the American press corps was.doing  a "despicable" job covering the war in Afghanistan. He said  it's 'despicable' that press focuses on  Massa instead of Afghanistan. Yes, the toilet tissue, soap and mouth wash selling press would rather focus on the trivial, on something, anything, that doesn't tax their viewers minds, and drive them away to watch less taxing stuff. The media can sell more tissue paper with stories on the tickling soap opera that is ex-Congressman Massa than they can with stories on Afghanistan. The press have misplaced priorities. Read more

President ObamaTodays Washington Post reports that Mr. President Obama is ready to cave and junk trial by a civilian court and jury for military tribunals, for the 911 defendants. Some folks are saying so what?  Aren't we are talking about giving justice to confessed terrorists? Read more

President ObamaPresident Barack Obama is showing very little backbone. He has kowtowed to the insurance lobby by leaving the public option out of his "final" health care reform effort. His press secretary  gave the excuse that Mr. Obama thought he couldn’t get 51 votes in the Senate to pass a health care bill which includes the public option. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)  begs to disagree. The Senator pointed out that the public option had 55 votes in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is on record as a supporter of the public option. POLITICO reports that there is a letter, circulating in the Senate supporting the public option, that is gaining more senators  signatures every week. Read more

Jerry BrownJerry is coming back. Back? He hasn't left. Sure he was a two-term Governor of California back in the 70s and early 80s, but he is the California  current Attorney General  and was a successful mayor of Oakland. Yesterday, he officially entered the governor's race. Most Californians knew this was coming, and so far he doesn't have a challenger in the Democratic primary.

Any one who has been casually following California  politics, would ask: Why would anyone want the job of Governor? The state is ungovernable. Jerry Brown in his campaign video says that he knows how to get California working again. Read more

Nancy PelosiOn the ABC and CNN Sunday talk shows, yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi   predicted that if the Democrats return to their tradition emphasis on jobs and on serving working and middle class families, the Democratic party  will retain their majority in the fall 2010 elections. She said the Democrats are "bracing" for a tough and "difficult election." But the party is "ready." She reminded the TV audience that the Democrats "inherited a terrible mess from the Bush administration and (from) their failed economic policies." And that the Democrats are working to improve the economy. Read more

Evans Bayh

The Quitting Senator, Evan "Baby" Bayh, continues his too long goodbye. In an opinion column, in yesterday's New York Times, called, "Why I’m Leaving the Senate," baby Bayh begins with how humorists from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of Congress. Well, with senators like Baby Bayh, the jokes write themselves. He even makes reference to the the old Milton Berle joke: “You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.”  Well, Baby Bayh? Read more

Evans BayhThe Washington Post reports this morning that Baby Bayh  has come out against the filibuster!! Oh my!

"It took him a day or two, but Evan Bayh has finally begun saying why Washington doesn't work, rather than just complaining that it doesn't. ... he is (now) saying that the filibuster should be 55 votes rather than 60, and fewer nominees should require Senate confirmation. (He says) ' The minority has rights, that's important, but the public has a right to see its business done, and not routinely allow a small minority to keep us from addressing the great issues that face this country. '  Bayh says, 'I think the filibuster absolutely needs to be changed.' " (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/evan_bayh_comes_out_...) Read more

Big Baby BayhBirch  Bayh, now he was a Senator.  He is a man. His son. Evan Bayh proved this week to be just a big Baby Bayh. He is a quiter, who in his exit  speech sounds like a whiner -- "I  have often been a lonely voice for balancing the budget and restraining spending. I have worked with Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike to do the nation’s business in a way that is civil and constructive. Read more

Harry ReidDemocrats start out with very popular programs, with solid public  support then lose them in the smoke screen, or to get them pass the GOP filibuster,  compromise them to the point (example the lousy Senate Health Reform Bill) where support fades away. Finally, the Democrats seem to have come up with a strategy to put the onus for the failure of Congress to pass popular  programs, which will address some of the pressing problems in the country, squarely where it belongs on the GOP, the Party of No. The Party of No claims it wants bipartisanship, wants the Democrats to propose modest, less ambitious measures. Read more

You Betcha!Sarah "give me the money" Palin, who quit the Alaska governorship to come to the lower 48 states to snooker the rubes out of their hard earned cash, and who has busy gathering in the cheese, collecting a reported whopping 100K  for her hand reading performance at the Tea Party gathering in Nashville -- said  that she just might run for President of the United States in 2012. Well,  if she does, she is going to have a tougher time than she thinks. America is not a land of just rubes. In a  Washington Post-ABC News poll out this week 71% of Americans  said that she even qualified to be President. Read more