Results for: House Democrat

Amazing Phipps
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/2009/01/22/amazing_phipps
– RECESS FOR MOLLY House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't take kindly to members of Congress missing crucial floor votes. … But if anybody had a good excuse to be absent from the House in recent days it was Rep. Brad Sherman, California Democrat. … the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan, says he sent President Obama his first official letter - arriving at the White House
The World's Greatest Rubberstamp Body: Will The Senate Fold?
https://townhall.com/columnists/hughhewitt/2009/02/06/the_worlds_greatest_rubberstamp_body__will_the_senate_fold
– A dozen Democrats in the House rebelled when Nancy Pelosi first kidnapped the idea of a stimulus and used it as a Trojan Horse for … A pack of House Blue Dogs bolted, but not enough to force real change on the "real change."  … GIven that those dozen Democrats bolted in the House and many more were troubled by the bill, hope for serious retooling rested on…
The Distemper of the Times
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2009/02/06/the_distemper_of_the_times
– Marcus Epstein; Peter Brimelow, the author of a seminal work on U.S. immigration, "Alien Nation"; Jim Pinkerton of Fox News, a White House … Of 26 House Republicans who lost, Epstein found only one who was a strong border-control candidate defeated by a pro-amnesty Democrat … In every other GOP defeat, either the Democrat was tough on amnesty and border security or the Republican was wimpish.…
Fired Up About the TV
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikegallagher/2009/02/06/fired_up_about_the_tv
– This week, the House voted 264-158 to postpone the shutdown of analog TV signals to June 12th. … While headlines are being generated about the Democrat mindset of nationalizing private businesses and bailing out failed ventures…
Obama's Rescue Package Stimulating Opposition
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2009/02/05/obamas_rescue_package_stimulating_opposition
– Both the House and Senate bills are loaded with an appalling amount of pork-filled, waste-ridden giveaways that will do little to nothing … But the president's 1 percent is based on both the spending and tax-cut portions of the House bill. … "There has been such a starvation diet for some of these programs that the appropriators got a little overanxious in the House.…
Wednesday Waste
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/2009/02/05/wednesday_waste
– "No public funds were used," replied Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat. … Travel Association is applauding the House of Representatives for its overwhelming 413-3 vote in favor of the Fast Redress Act, which … Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania Democrat, dared brag on the House floor this week. Mr.…
It's Not a "Stimulus" Bill
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2009/02/05/its_not_a_stimulus_bill
– Must we always fight Washington policy wars using preferred Democrat terms? … They're also focusing on how it's light on actual "stimulus" items and heavy on grants pleasing traditional Democrat special interest … The Senate (and the House) somehow think it's a "stimulus" provision to give an additional $50 million to the National Endowment for…
Tax Cheats Put White House on the Defensive
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2009/02/04/tax_cheats_put_white_house_on_the_defensive
– Particularly embarrassing to the Obama White House was the huge sum Daschle raked in from the health industry over which he would have … Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA) dished out $14,000 for a speech he gave last year, and reminded the South Dakota Democrat … If any of these tax-evasion cases had broken in a Republican White House, the Democrats would be screaming for a special prosecutor…
Republican Revival?
https://townhall.com/columnists/billmurchison/2009/02/04/republican_revival
– The Pelosi team in the House, seemingly, isn't one tenth as good and brilliant as they let on during the campaign. … Hardly anyone but the House Democrats thinks the -- ha-ha-ho-ho -- "stimulus" bill has more to do with stimulus than with the enactment … The Democrats shut the Republicans wholly out of the process -- and received not one House Republican vote.…
When Crimes Become Mistakes
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelreagan/2009/02/03/when_crimes_become_mistakes
– Then there's Charlie Rangel, head of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, who didn't pay his taxes. … If you're a Democrat, however, well, you simply make a mistake when you do something wrong. … When a Democrat stands before a judge after straying from the straight and narrow you can expect that he will admit to having made…
John McCain weighs in on the stimulating government act via Country First PAC
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dwaynehorner/2009/02/03/john_m…s_in_on_the_stimulating_government_act_via_country_first_pac
– The House of Representatives passed a stimulus bill without a single Republican supporting it. … In the Senate, the Democrat leadership is trying to jam the existing proposal through regardless of reservations from a number of members … Interesting quote within the email, " In the Senate, the Democrat leadership is trying to jam the existing proposal through regardless…
J. Bonnie Newman to replace NH Senator Judd Gregg
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dwaynehorner/2009/02/03/j_bonnie_newman_to_replace_nh_senator_judd_gregg
House in the 1980s. … Bush White House, an assistant commerce secretary in the Reagan administration, interim president of the University of New Hampshire … Can you imagine a Democrat adhering to these rules after the fact?…
Obama's "Change" Danger
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2009/02/03/obamas_change_danger
– Permitting a stimulus package that's really nothing more than a left-wing Democrat wish list to progress.  … But especially in times of economic hardship, it's dangerous for the overall message emanating from the Obama White House to be that…
The Democrats' Tax Hypocrisy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/johnhawkins/2009/02/03/the_democrats_tax_hypocrisy
– ." -- Gateway Pundit "As one leading Democrat put it: "Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws … That Democrat was then-Sen. Tom Daschle in 1998. … and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination after President Barack Obama announced their selection.The White House
Duh
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/2009/02/03/duh
– . & MISS AMERICA What do Miss America 2009 Katie Stam and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have in common? … Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, says nobody is more deserving than newly retired Virginia Sen. John Warner of having the U.S.…
From the Desk of an Eternal Optimist: An Open Letter to Conservatives
https://townhall.com/columnists/tomprice/2009/02/03/from_the_desk_of_an_eternal_optimist_an_open_letter_to_conservatives
– Look no further than the Energy Revolt on the floor of the House of Representatives this past August which gave Republicans a needed … • Remain unified and disciplined: Hostile Democrat majorities and liberal special interests are more energized than they have been…
Republican Revival?
https://townhall.com/columnists/billmurchison/2009/02/03/republican_revival
– The Pelosi team in the House, seemingly, isn't one tenth as good and brilliant as they let on during the campaign. … Hardly anyone but the House Democrats thinks the -- ha-ha-ho-ho -- "stimulus" bill has more to do with stimulus than with the enactment … The Democrats shut the Republicans wholly out of the process -- and received not one House Republican vote.…
Dear Chairman Steele
https://townhall.com/columnists/loriebyrd/2009/02/03/dear_chairman_steele
– electoral benefits, ending the forty-year hold of Democrats on Congress reducing their controlling majority of 258 seats in the House … Not one Republican running for reelection in the House, Senate or for Governor lost in that election. … the perfect opportunity to make the differences between Democrat liberalism and Republican conservatism clear.…
Democrats by the Numbers
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dwaynehorner/2009/02/02/democrats_by_the_numbers
– "$1,000,000: the estimated amount of donations by Denise Rich, wife of fugitive Marc Rich, to Democrat interests and the William J. … "$2,000,000,000: ($2 billion) the approximate amount of money that House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) is earmarking related…
Real Steal
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/2009/02/02/real_steal
– In other words, the three-level, four-bedroom brick-and-wood house with a "gigantic swimming pool," knotty-pine kitchen, and classic … pink bathroom actually served as the White House during the crucial period following the surrender and retreat of Richard M. … Now, two years later, another ad is posted: "Live in a President's House."…
Exhuming James Madison
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2009/02/02/exhuming_james_madison
– as his father, our 41st president who was replaced by a more fiscally responsible – though considerably more morally flawed – Democrat … I bought a house four years ago. Immediately, I began to tear out old dying bushes and trees. … I then planted jasmine along the back wall of the house and a big, beautiful willow tree in the middle of the yard.…
Government Recidivism
https://townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/2009/02/01/government_recidivism
– The son of a Tennessee governor, Cooper, a Democrat who represents Nashville, was a congressional page starting in 1969 and then a … Having run unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1994, he returned to the House in 2002.…
Welcome Chairman Steele
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dwaynehorner/2009/01/31/welcome_chairman_steele
– Without control of the White House or the Congress, Chairman Steele's work will be cut out for him. … Can you imagine a democrat having oreo cookies thrown at him or his credit record being stolen during a campaign?…
Bigger Story
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/2009/02/19/bigger_story
– Leahy, Vermont Democrat, introduced parallel legislation last week in the Senate. … Jon O'Brien says this week's meeting in Rome between Pope Benedict XVI and the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi comes at an opportune time … Fannon is hoping to win a seat for Republicans on the currently all-Democrat council.…
We're Not All Socialists
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2009/02/19/were_not_all_socialists
– As the Democrat-dominated House and Senate thoughtfully passed judgment on a 1,100-page "stimulus" bill that Sen. … Our news media have insisted on playing the White House soundtrack on this battle, to wit: The "stimulus" is vitally necessary, and … But all Rodriguez could do was protest these points as divisive: "But everyone [in the House GOP] opposed it. Why?…
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