Well… If it’s getting more difficult to see Sarah Palin as a Presidential candidate for 2012 or “2000-ever”, it’s possible that SNL has once again utilized its comedic political crystal ball and brought a little clarity to her future.
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It was called the Grand Old Party. That’s what G-O-P used to stand for. Some may say it still does, but for all intents and purposes one can honestly say, there is nothing grand about the current edition of the Republican Party and it has disappeared when it’s most needed. No, I don’t mean to save the country from a liberal President or even a Democratic House and Senate. It is as simple as Ying and Yang. The honest to goodness push back of the left not by simply saying “No” but with legitimate alternative ideas to bring to the table. The left needs you, not to substitute your ideas for theirs but more so to test their ideas against yours. But where are the legitimate new ideas, ideas that were not woefully followed during the Bush Administration?
Michael Steele has become the poster child for the party’s idiosyncrasies. It is no secret that as qualified as he may be for the position, he was and clearly is a GOP push back to Obama’s candidacy and Presidency. The GOP played a not so subtle race card the same way McCain played with gender when he selected Sarah Palin for his running mate in the 2008 Presidential Election. Subsequently, both Steele and Palin made for great photo ops and the appearance that the GOP had a progressive bone in its body politic, however, at the end of the day they became thin veils inadequately masking the GOP’s internal and philosophical dysfunction.
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Senate Republicans succeeded early Thursday morning in finding two flaws in the House-passed health care reconciliation package. Neither is of any substance, but the Senate parliamentarian informed Democratic leaders that both are in violation of the Byrd Rule.
Though at first blush this may appear to be a victory for the GOP, it may just back fire on the “Party of No”. Their move to send the legislation back over small issues and amendments also gives Democrats an opportunity to add amendments of their own on a much grander scale and only needing fifty votes in the Senate to achieve passage; namely, the Public Option. Read More Here.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the Health Care Reform Bill which was sent back from the United States Senate for final passage. It was in effect where the rubber met the road in this long and arduous political and emotional journey to the first form of health reform since Medicare was taken on by both chambers and was signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to Social Security legislation. After Medicare’s passage, then president, Lyndon B. Johnson, enrolled former president Harry S. Truman as Medicare’s first participant. Below is a short ten minute look as to just how emotional and passionate the house debate became, before the historic vote eventually passed the bill.
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