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Yet more private equity corruption! And see how little it costs to buy the assent of public pension fund employees.
Bluest districts in the land will limit the party's potential gains in the house and imperil some democrats in the senate. the thing to do, these worry warts is to of a all candidates stick to bland centrist, saying nothing that anybody might disagree which is exactly what the gop wants. >> isn't that what the clinton campaign did last rather? >> if democrats concentrate on winning and manage to take control of both chambers which is what really ought to happen based on the republicans disgraceful performance, they will have difficulty reconciling the views of progressives and centrists, that'...
After announcing she wants to stay on as the democratic leader and maybe not good news for steny hoyer. tim, what's the dynamic now because there had been a lot of speculation over the last week whether she'd stay or not. >> you also have to remember being the minority in the house of representatives is a position of utter powerlessness. you think running a party in the house of representatives that's great, it's a great accomplishment she did get to be speaker but the house minority does is vote no and issue reports unlike a senate mortgage which can filibuster, block things, put holds on it ...
Senate voted for the new england liberal george mitchell to be majority leader. they then voted against some important things on the democratic agenda. they killed bill clinton and al gore's ambitious btu tax in 1993, but some of them, after killing it, then voted for an increase in the gasoline tax instead. something no republican voted for. there were many days when i hated the stress and strain of working with or trying to work around the moderate democrats in the senate. the only thing i hated more, much more, was the utter powerlessness of being in the minority party in the senate when th...
Much more, was the utter powerlessness of being in the minority party in the senate when the democrats got wiped out in the congressional elections of 1994. claire mccaskill is, in what is now considered the moderate wing of the democratic party. she was criticized in june for her announcement that she would not be attending the democratic convention this year. she said then that she never goes to the convention in the middle of her own campaigns. she didn't go to the convention in 2004 when she was running for governor in missouri, but some democrats still criticized her for distancing hersel...