Archive for November, 2010
More DREAM Act Lies From Mark Pryor
Nov 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemFrom Mark Pryor's response to my phone calls: Thank you for contacting me regarding the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act. I appreciate hearing from you. Senator Richard Durbin introduced the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S.729, on March 26, 2009. This bill would amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant ...
Continue ReadingDADT Study Out; Troops Not As Bigoted/Cowardly As Mark Pryor
Nov 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemThe Pentagon has released its comprehensive DADT study (which you can follow the link to read). And as expected, we find that our soldiers serving in uniform have far less a problem with gay people than our senatorial homophob Mark Pryor. More than 70 percent of respondents to a survey sent to active-duty and reserve troops ...
Continue ReadingSenate Passes Food Safety Modernization Act
Nov 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemThe Senate has passed the Food Safety Modernization Act, complete with the Tester-Hagan amendment to protect small and organic farmers. The Senate passed legislation Tuesday to make food safer in the wake of deadly E. coli and salmonella outbreaks, potentially giving the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies ...
Continue ReadingThe Halter-McDaniel Connundrum
Nov 29, 2010 4 Comments ›› ARDemImagine this nightmare scenario. Mike Ross runs for governor. That's nightmarish enough, but it gets worse. There are two other candidates in the race, Bill Halter and Dustin McDaniel of course, who split the more progressive vote, allowing Ross to win outright without a runoff. Seriously. Think about it. And hey, if you're so keen ...
Continue ReadingHouse Dems Set To Bring Permanent Middle-Class Tax Cut Extension Up For Vote
Nov 29, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemHot damn: House Democrats are likely to hold a vote later this week on a tax plan that would allow the Bush tax cuts for high-income earners to expire at the end of the year, according to multiple aides. Nothing's final, and the timing could change, as it often does. But Dem leaders will attempt to settle ...
Continue ReadingWhat The Food Safety Modernization Act Does
Nov 29, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemThere's been some talk about the food safety bill currently before Congress, with concern coming from teabaggers and progressives alike that the bill will hurt small and organic farmers. Well, here's a run down about what the bill does: In a nutshell, the act consolidates the government's food safety inspection from a broken, dysfunctional, and unworkable ...
Continue ReadingMark Pryor: Race Baiter
Nov 29, 2010 2 Comments ›› ARDemThis is getting sickening: Another day, more misinformation from Sen. Mark Pryor. Yesterday, it was gay bigotry. Today, it's the brown people he's after, according to a Democrat-Gazette interview with him on his opposition to the DREAM Act. He opposes giving a path to citizenship for children brought to the U.S. without papers by immigrant parents. ...
Continue ReadingMark Pryor Sides With The Bigots
Nov 28, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemWe've worked our asses off calling and lobbying Mark Pryor for several weeks now on DADT repeal and the DREAM Act. Progressives have called and emailed, tried being nice, you name it. This is what we apparently get in response: Pryor, who dodged my question entirely, now tells the Democrat-Gazette that he opposes repeal; that he ...
Continue ReadingWho Mike Ross Works For
Nov 28, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemThis came out last week and I didn't have time to work it in. Still, it's worth keeping alive. Ross, who was first elected in 2000, has raised more than $10.1 million for his campaign efforts since 1999. The labor, health and Wall Street sectors all run neck-and-neck as the five-term congressman's top financial backers. Ross, who ...
Continue ReadingThe Economic Reality
Nov 28, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemSo Obama and the Democrats are bad for business right? Not exactly: The nation’s workers may be struggling, but American companies just had their best quarter ever. American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report released Tuesday. That is the highest figure recorded since ...
Continue ReadingWhat Really Happened On Election Night
Nov 28, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemThe picture is becoming clearer: "It is fair to say that 2010 was the year of older, rich people." That's the conclusion of a new research memo from Project Vote, "An Analysis of Who Voted (and Who Didn't Vote) in the 2010 Election," by Dr. Lorraine Minnite. It finds that wealthier voters and Americans over the ...
Continue ReadingWill Mark Pryor Vote His “Christian Values” Or Just Talk About Them?
Nov 26, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemMark Pryor likes to talk the talk when it comes to religious values. He's widely remembered for having run an ad that showed him reading the Bible to his kids and for talking about his time in Bible study. And let's not forget his famous exchange with Bill Maher over the talking snake. So yeah, ...
Continue ReadingJustice!: Tom Delay Convicted!
Nov 24, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemFinally!: Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress — was convicted Wednesday on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. Jurors deliberated for 19 hours before returning guilty verdicts against DeLay on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money ...
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