Posts under ‘Congress’

From my favorite liberal, Mickey Kaus:
The home “weatherization” jobs in the stimulus bill were subjected to Davis-Bacon wage regulations–a favorite of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department–under which federal Labor Department officials establish “prevailing wage” rates that must be paid…a year was wasted on mindless, union-demanded bureaucratic attempts to disingenuously replicate the labor market. Did Obama not know this [...]

The RNC resolution Gabe blogged about at Ace yesterday has just arrived in my hot little hands.
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have recently supported primary or special election candidates who professed allegiance to the Republican Party but who, as their circumstances changed and to [...]

Ouch.
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson and his wife were leaving dinner at a new pizza joint near their home in Omaha one night last week when a patron began complaining about Nelson’s decisive vote in favor of the Senate’s health care bill.
Other customers started booing. A woman yelled, “Get him the hell out of here!” And [...]

For some crazy reason, one of the Mayo Clinic’s facilities in Arizona is going stop taking Medicare patients.
More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael [...]

Continued from yesterday.  So I signed the petition to recall Sen. Max Baucus - it’s the thought that counts! - but I have my doubts. It seems the campaign to recall US senators is being promoted by these expert networkers. They deserve MoveOn points for chutzpah, but I’m afraid it won’t fly.
The Montana Recall [...]

The Missoulian editorial writer rises in defense of Max Baucus.
…contrary to the video headline’s assertion, Baucus was probably not drunk when he spoke on the Senate floor last week and he certainly did not shout down Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss. There is no evidence at all that he had been drinking.
Baucus may have been angry [...]

As it is, he’s never been that coherent, but now this - ?  Ace speculates - judge for yourself!

The Senate version of the Abominable Bill has passed.
Discuss.

From a 2001 essay by Theodore Dalrymple comparing modern Britain with Italy.
The vast and seemingly benevolent state has completely eroded the proud and sturdy independence of the British population, once remarked upon by visitors. Forty percent of Britons now depend on government subsidy, receiving direct payment from the public purse as part, or all, of [...]

H/T Protein Wisdom.