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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 8 Comments

When word spread via leaks to The NY Times and others that there was the possibility of a debt deal being worked out between Obama and Boehner in which budget cuts would be frontloaded with no new taxes on "the rich," Democrats in the Senate rushed to scuttle...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 29 Comments

Isn't that what this all is about at this moment in time? We just have to last another 18 months and win the presidential election, and then our long national nightmare will come to an end.  Until then, we're just trying to limit the damage. Until he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 22 Comments

Democrats have an idea.  Let's take an additional $2 trillion from the private sector and give it to the federal government. What possibly could go wrong? ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2010 2 Comments

Remember how important it was to pass New START during the lame duck session, rather than waiting until January?  We were told that anything less would have angered the Russians and, in Harry Reid's words, put nukes in the hands of terrorists.  Any attempt to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2010 7 Comments

The lame duck session has been a pathetic joke on Republicans and conservatives who thought they won the elections in November.  An illegitimate Democratic House and near filibuster-proof Democratic Senate have run roughshod on most issues, and several Republicans have helped them along.Unfortunately, we have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2010 0 Comments

The lame duck session has seen Harry Reid at his best or worst, depending upon your perspective.Reid held back a slew of substantial legislation to the last two weeks in order to try to ram through measures which, in a rational world, would have had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2010 0 Comments

The Omnibus bill was pulled last night by Harry Reid after several Republicans who were considering voting for it reversed course.The Omnibus bill was defeated because of you and millions of others like you who let their voices be heard on the internet, radio airwaves, through...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2010 15 Comments

Breaking news that Harry Reid is pulling the Omnibus spending bill in the face of the loss of possible Republican votes: The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said Thursday night that he was abandoning efforts to pass a $1.2 trillion spending measure to finance...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2010 14 Comments

I'm not sure what Republicans in the Senate can do to stop the Ominibus Monstrosity since there appear to be several Republicans likely to vote for the bill (Collins, Bond, Bennett, Voinivich).  Regardless, the Republican leadership and membership should do anything and everything to stop...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2010 6 Comments

Harry Reid lowered the boom yesterday, rolling out a $1.1 trillion, 1,924-page Omnibus Budget bill, which was sure to infuriate Republicans in the Senate.To roll out such a provocative bill at a time when Reid has an extraordinarily tight calendar on a variety of social and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 03, 2010 10 Comments

...Update 11-04-2010:  The Gail Collins gets the point:O.K., you poor little Democrats. Stop sobbing. Lift up your little liberal heads and shout. There’s gonna be. ... Umm. Harry Reid! There’s gonna be more Harry Reid! --------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2010 8 Comments

Nevada reporter Jon Ralston, who accused me of being a "disgrace to [his] alma mater" because I pointed out his pro-Harry Reid tilt, finally has made the big time by starring [at 0:14] in Harry Reid's most outlandish commercial yet (as to which even Greg Sargent expresses...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 24, 2010 7 Comments

You're losing the messaging war:"My manhood has never been in question."Guess who?  (Before you click, stop a second.  Do you really need to click?  Don't you know precisely who it is without clicking to check?  Have confidence in your gut instincts on this one, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2010 4 Comments

Via David Corn of The Nation regarding the Reid-Angle debate:--------------------------------------------Related Post:Jon Ralston Finally Comes Out for Harry Reid Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2010 7 Comments

Well, at least we now know for sure where Nevada's top political reporter, who wanted also to be a debate moderator, stands on the Harry Reid-Sharron Angle race.  Not that you would have had any doubt if you had been reading this blog.Jon Ralston says Sharron...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2010 10 Comments

I posted yesterday about Jon Ralston, the high-profile Nevada political reporter and talk show host, and an exchange I had with him regarding whether he was accusing Sharron Angle of "race-baiting" over a television ad Angle ran on illegal immigration.  When I pointed out that Ralston appeared to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2010 16 Comments

So says Nevada reporter and political guru Jon Ralston about me.Some background.  I have been critical of Ralston for months over the way he has covered the Harry Reid - Sharron Angle Senate race.  While Ralston presents himself as a muckraking but neutral investigative journalist and talk...

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