April 11, 2008, 11:55pm
House Republicans today interrupted the Democrats’ debate on a bill to protect beaches in order to badger the Democrats about their failure to pass a promised “commonsense plan” to lower oil prices. The office of House Minority Leader Roy Blunt, R-Mo., compiled a video that recapped the floor confrontation.
Categories: Missouri, Democrats, Environment, Energy, Economy, Roy Blunt
January 21, 2008, 7:24pm
If you ask College Democrats of America, the answer to that question is President Bush and congressional Republicans. Never mind that tuition rates are set by state governments and Democrats now control Congress; it’s all the GOP’s fault for cutting student aid, according to the group’s new “Reverse The Raid On Student Aid” campaign.
Categories: Democrats, Education, AdWatch, Republicans
December 29, 2007, 5:48pm
It’s time for those New Year’s resolutions and both President Bush and Democrats in Congress have a few to share with the American people. What better way to do it than their weekly radio addresses.
Bush, for instance, has resolved to do something about “wasteful earmark spending.” “In the last election, congressional leaders ran on a promise that they would reform earmarks,” he said. “They made some progress but not nearly enough.” He said he is reviewing options he can take as president to curtail “special-interest items that are slipped into big spending bills like … often at the last hour, without discussion or debate.”
Bush also vowed to submit a budget in February that will restrain spending, keep taxes low and move the nation toward a balanced budget.
On the Democratic side, freshman Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York outlined “a vision to build America’s greatness.” Among other things, the agenda includes a push toward energy independence, advancements in technology that can create jobs, economic policies aimed at helping the middle class, changes to the education and healthcare systems, and efforts to secure the nation against attacks.
“I truly believe that all good things are possible when the American people are heard,” she said.
Categories: New York, Democrats, Health, Technology, Kirsten Gillibrand, Weekly Radio Address, Energy, Budget, Education, Economy
December 21, 2007, 7:09am
Democrats this week ended their first year in control of Congress in more than a decade with an admittedly mixed record. Rob Bluey of the conservative Heritage Foundation thinks this video best illustrates that record.
Full disclosure: I’m on the advisory board of Heritage’s Center for Media and Public Policy, which Bluey heads.
Categories: Democrats, 110th Congress, Friday Fun
December 14, 2007, 6:08pm
The presidential campaign of Barack Obama scored powerful visual points with this video of Susan Klopfer in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, switching her support to Obama from Hillary Clinton.
The reason for the switch, which is illustrated by Klopfer pulling a Clinton sign from her yard and replacing it with one for Obama: “I was really surprised to see personal attacks from one Democrat to the other Democrat. … The negative stuff, it just isn’t going to work.”
Categories: Producer's Picks, Democrats, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
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