Blog for Democracy

Category: Congress

  • Open Thread-Friday Edition

    First Things first-Happy Hour tonight is at Manuel’s ( North Ave side) We start at 5:30 ish and will likely be there till 8:30 pm. Join us! Congratulations to the Cobb County Democratic Committees newly elected leadership. Last evening the post seat holders elected Melissa Snyder Pike the Chair of the Cobb County Democratic Party. She’s…

  • Transportation “Security” Administration

    Apparently, you now have three options at the airport: 1) Full body xray scan which a) takes nudie pics of you and stores them; and, b) may or may not later cause cancer; 2) An “enhanced” patdown; whereby, a TSA agent gets to second base (thirteen second mark – wtf?) without buying you dinner; or,…

  • A New Leader for the House Dems?

    If you didn’t know any better, you’d think Nancy Pelosi was a local Georgia politician given that her name or photo appeared on numerous mailers and political ads this cycle. Given that, let’s talk about whether she should remain leader of the House Dems. The NY Times thinks not. What they need is what Ms.…

  • GOP House is a failure. Already.

    Rasmussen Reports: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds, in fact, that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is at least somewhat likely that most voters will be disappointed with Republicans in Congress before the next national elections. That includes 38% who say it is Very Likely. If there’s one consistency in America,…

  • Congressman John Lewis has a message for you

    Vote!

  • Predictions (Open Thread)

    Roy heads to a runoff Thurmond loses in a landslide. Marshall goes bye-byes (probably epically too). Bishop wins. We win one Constitutional Office. It won’t be Moffett, Martin, or Powell. Legislature gets more Republican. Democrats retain both chambers. OPEN THREAD!!!!