A look at Liu
President Obama has nominated Goodwin Liu for a spot on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Liu, age 39, is a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Based on it his faculty biography, it appears that he has practiced law for, at most, three years.
Liu [...]
Business Word: ‘Senators Bob Corker, Chuck Grassley, Judd Gregg show Republicans ready to deal; will Obama?’
In his brief but ‘right on the mark’ post at The Business Word, Donald E. L. Johnson writes that it must be a cold day in Washington, and for good reason. Three Republican Senators today agreed to help break logjams on Democrats’ major legislative efforts to enact health, finance and jobs bills:
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) [...]
President Obama Responds to the Confirmation of 27 Nominees
President Obama’s statement following action by the Senate to confirm twenty-seven nominees:
Today, the United States Senate confirmed 27 of my high-level nominees, many of whom had been awaiting a vote for months.
At the beginning of the week, a staggering 63 nominees had been stalled in the Senate because one or more senators placed a hold on their [...]
WND: ‘Ellie Light’ tied to Daily Kos, Obama-Ayers machine
We should have guessed as much; Ellie Light is apparently a far-left, progressive, female-impersonating, male hippy with ties to the far-left website, the Daily Kos.
WND reports that a male health-care worker who appears to be Ellie Light - the letter writer whose name appeared in dozens of newspapers nationwide praising President Obama - also is [...]
Baucus: Was He Drunk, Or Is He Stupid?
This video of Democratic Senator Max Baucus during the debate on the Democrats’ health care takeover is all over the web. Most observers say that Baucus was drunk. We report, you decide:
I claim no expertise in this area beyond normal human observation, but, for what it’s worth, I would say that he was [...]
How is Obamacare to be stopped? part 3
Over the weekend Redstate’s Erick Erickson made an impassioned plea that Republican Senators avail themselves of every parliamentary device at their disposal to obstruct the nationalization of health care. We posted a long response from a GOP Senate source in “How is Obamacare to be stopped?” Today Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made [...]
