U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, told Mike Adams of AgriTalk that House Republicans’ budget outline “is going to cause big problems” for passage of a new Farm Bill this year. They are asking for a reconciliation process to avoid defense cuts, and they want them before [...]
Posted on March 25th, 2012 by Debby
Filed under: Farm Bill 2012, Farms & Farmers, Federal Budget, Federal Programs, House of Representatives, Rural Issues, Rural Urban Partnerships, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Joe Miller, the TEA Party’s candidate for senator in Alaska, the man who beat the incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary, reminds me of Norm Coleman with hanging chads thrown in. Coleman, at least, came close to winning the Minnesota senate race in 2008. When Al Franken won in a [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Election 2010, Senate | 2 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson If you’ve finished digesting the two-ring circus that yielded results for the House and Senate in Tuesday’s elections, I’d like to draw your attention to the third ring, where contests for governor have taken place. Thirty-seven states elected governors this year. This is the largest number of gubernatorial contests ever in [...]
Posted on November 4th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Election 2010, Election 2012, Elections | 4 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Yesterday’s election results left no doubt that economic recovery is #1 on the voters’ agenda. Here’s a rule politicians would do well to memorize: When people aren’t thinking with their hormones, they’re thinking with their wallets. Now we have a House of Representatives that thinks the way to recovery consists of [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Economic crisis: US, Election 2010, Election 2012, House of Representatives, Jobs, Senate, Taxes | 8 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The video here runs 2 minutes and 33 seconds and will give you the inspiration it takes to do what I’m doing here: to roust out people who have lost their enthusiasm for Obama and the Democratic Party, can’t bring themselves to vote Republican, and so are intending to ignore what’s [...]
Posted on October 30th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Election 2010 | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Marco Rubio, the radical right’s Senatorial candidate in Florida, is a man with whom I could hardly disagree more. But he’s saying one thing that I totally agree with, although he means one thing when he says it, and I mean another when I agree. Rubio is reminding us that this [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Election 2010 | 1 Comment »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson After weeks during which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (not to be confused with the lunch bunch in your home town, a group of local shopkeepers and independent business people who have a pretty good idea of what it’s like to be you) has pumped millions of dollars into attack ads [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Election 2010, Jobs | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Let it be known at the outset that here I will be talking about radical Republicans and their enablers and not everyone who is registered to vote or self-identified as a Republican. It’s easy to stick labels on people, especially when stress trumps nuance, as it does in these times. But [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Economic Justice, Election 2010, Politics and Political Issues, Republicans, Social Justice | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Three scenarios. Take your pick. 1. Disappointed that Obama hasn’t whupped more ass and accomplished more in the year and nine months since his inaugural, the people who put him in office stay home November 2 and let the Republicans and their Tea Party doppelgängers take over the Senate and House [...]
Posted on October 11th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Election 2010, House of Representatives, Senate | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson These days I’m finding it unusually hard to stay in touch with one of my core beliefs — that there is something sacred within every living creature. I always have that problem with mosquitoes and black flies — and ants, but only when they get into my kitchen. Outside, I admire [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Democrats, Election 2010, Election 2012, Politics and Political Issues, Republicans | 1 Comment »
