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30 Mar 09

D.C. Voting Rights Act is Clearly Unconstitutional « Republican Ranting

Last Thursday, the Senate passed the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009, which gives the District of Columbia a voting member in the House of Representatives and eliminates the position of D.C. Delegate, who represents the District now. Currently, that delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, can only vote when her vote does not affect the outcome; however, she is allowed to introduce bills, and this bill was introduced by Norton. The bill would also give an additional seat to Utah, so that the partisan makeup of the House stayed the same.

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12 Mar 09

Live Analysis of Governor Granholm’s Michigan State of the State Address « Republican Ranting

  • The Michigan State of the State address is about to begin. I will be live blogging the event, giving my analysis (so my apologies for any spelling errors - I’ll fix them eventually).
    Alright, she’s entering the chamber (I’m not sure if this is the House or Senate - probably House since it’s bigger).
05 Mar 09

Vladimir Putin Warns U.S. Not to Fall into Socialism « Republican Ranting

  • Well, it appears as if Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin knows more about economics than President Obama. The following is an excerpt of Putin’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (transcript courtesy of the Wall Street Journal). The full speech can be found here
24 Feb 09

Obama Bitter that Republicans Rejected the Stimulus Package? « Republican Ranting

  • So, I was just watching the news, and they were talking about a picture and caption of the White House website. Neil Cavuto (FOX News) was asking if the following caption was a cheap shot at Republicans. Here’s the picture (I’ll discuss it below and ask for your opinion) (see here for the original picture; it’s picture 4: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photogallery/The-story-of-the-economic-recovery-package/):
17 Feb 09

President Obama Signs $787 Billion Economic Stimulus Plan « Republican Ranting

  • Moments ago, President Obama singed H.R. 1, the economic stimulus package into law. Unfortunately, I was taking a phone call during the beginning of his speech, so I couldn’t live blog it, but I did catch some key parts (I’ll do a summary of the whole speech later).
07 Feb 09

Some Republican Governors Break Party Ranks and Support Stimulus Bill « Republican Ranting

  • Alright, this news article is a few days old, but since the Senate hasn’t voted on the stimulus package yet, it’s still applicable. I read an AP article that a friend showed me, and while I won’t post the whole thing, I’ll highlight some key points. The article talks about Republican Governors who are urging Congress to pass the stimulus bill. The full article can be read here. Then I went looking for more positions on the bill and found a few other governors’ positions.
03 Feb 09

Tom Daschle Withdraws Nomination for Health and Human Services Secretary « Republican Ranting

  • Just moments ago, President Obama accepted former Senator Tom Daschle’s (D-SD) request to withdraw his name from the nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
30 Jan 09

House of Representatives Passes $819 Billion Economic Stimulus Package « Republican Ranting

  • On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, H.R. 1, Congress’s latest economic stimulus package. That bill passed 244-188; 11 Democrats broke ranks, while all of the voting Republicans voted against it. First, I would like to commend the 11 Democrats who voted against the $819 billion “stimulus” bill. This bill is an atrocity to the Congressional system of appropriations. Instead of focusing on true STIMULUS (after all, it is an “economic STIMULUS package”), the Democrats in the House packed the bill with billions of dollars of un-stimulating spending. For those of you who want to read the sources, here’s the version of the bill as it was introduced (it has been slightly changed, but not too much), here’s the summary from the House Appropriations Committee, and here’s the cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. And here’s the link to the roll call vote, Roll number 46.
27 Jan 09

Obama Should Keep Guantanamo Open but Change the Detention Procedures « Republican Ranting

  • Recently, Barack Obama issued an executive order that would close the detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base as well as review the detention status of all of the detainees.
26 Jan 09

Joe Biden Makes Joke About Justice Robert’s Memory After Inauguration Slip-Up « Republican Ranting

  • Yesterday while swearing in the senior staff, Vice President Biden made a joke about his memory not being as good as Chief Justice John Robert’s, making a joke about Robert’s mistake during Obama’s oath of office administration. Here’s a video courtesy of Politico
23 Jan 09

Barack Obama Retakes Oath of Office « Republican Ranting

  • Yesterday, President Barack Obama retook the oath of office, due to the fact that a he said a word out of order on inauguration day. Here’s a video, courtesy of the BBC, of the oath of office

Barack Obama Issues Executive Order Increasing Presidential Transparency « Republican Ranting

  • Yesterday, President Obama issued his first (or second) executive order, rescinding Executive Order 13233, issued by President Bush. Obama’s executive order restored some transparency to the White House, back to the levels before President Bush.
22 Jan 09

Senate Approves Release of Additional $350 Bailout Funds « Republican Ranting

  • Yesterday, the Senate voted 42-52 to not block the release of the second half of the $700 billion bailout (the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] money). Within hours of that vote, the Department of the Treasury announced that $118 billion of the $350 billion would be spent on bailing out Bank of America by investing in it and guaranteeing loans.

Illinois House Votes to Impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich « Republican Ranting

  • The Illinois House of Representatives, just in the past hour, voted to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich (D), 114-1. The only representative voting against impeachment was Milton Patterson (D-South Chicago). Representative Elga Jefferies (D-Chicago) voted “present.” Typical Cook County politics, if you ask me. I commend the other 114 representatives who voted in the affirmative to impeach Governor Blagojevich. This will no go to the Senate, who will decide whether or not to remove Blagojevich from office.
08 Jan 09

Harry Reid and Dick Durbin Hold Press Conference to Discuss Roland Burris’s Future in the Senate « Republican Ranting

  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) showed, again, that they were legal cowards again today. Take a look at the following press conference held by the 2 Senators and I’ll discuss what they said below
07 Jan 09

Illinois Senate Appointee, Roland Burris, Denied Entry to the Senate. Was That Denial Legal? « Republican Ranting

  • Today, Roland Burris (D-IL), the guy that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) appointed to fill President-Elect Obama’s vacant seat, went to Washington, D.C., proclaiming himself the junior Senator from Illinois. Before trying to enter the Senate, he told reporters, “My name is Roland Burris. I am the junior senator from the state of Illinois.”
05 Jan 09

Bill Richardson Withdraws Nomination for Commerce Secretary Amidst Corruption Allegations « Republican Ranting

  • Well, apparently I came back from vacation to quite a busy news day - Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) has withdrawn his nomination to be Obama’s Secretary of Commerce. Richardson, meanwhile, will keep his position of governor while he’s facing a federal grand jury investigation. That investigation involves allegations that he exchanged government contracts for contributions to three of his political committees. Richardson denies that he did anything wrong, but the investigation won’t be finished before he has to go to a Senate confirmation hearing, and that could delay his confirmation. Richardson put out the following statement
10 Dec 08

Barack Obama “Saddened and Sobered” Over the Arrest of Blagojevich « Republican Ranting

  • Today, while meeting with Vice President-Elect Joe Biden and former Vice President Al Gore to discuss energy and climate change, President-Elect Barack Obama confirmed that he was in no way involved with Governor Blagojevich’s attempts to profit off of the Senate nomination that he was going to make. Obama said that he was “saddened and sobered” about the events that transpired earlier today. I’ll let you watch the video for yourself

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Arrested on Corruption Charges Regarding Obama’s Senate Replacement Selection « Republican Ranting

  • This is currently a developing story–this morning, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) was arrested and charged with corruption. His chief of staff, John Harris, was also indicted this morning. This is the result of a 5 year investigation of corruption allegations.
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