Posts Tagged ‘Joe Lieberman’
The Pittsburgh Steelers once had an intimidating defender named “Mean Joe” Greene who struck fear into the heart of every NFL quarterback.
Today, if President Obama had the choice of starin’ down “Mean Joe” Greene or Senator Joe Lieberman …he might just pick the former.
These past two days the Senator from Connecticut has been playing hard ball in Washington over HEALTH CARE.
Senator Joe isn’t a fan of parts of the Democrats’ health care plan that is nearing a vote in Congress.
This is getting Democrats pretty cranky. That is because Joe Lieberman’s vote may be THE deciding vote in the Health Care debate. As a result if Joe says No…it ain’t going to go….
So Joe is taking out his surgeon’s scalpel and demanding some amputation to the Democrats’ bill. …read more.
Courtesy of the New York Times and the AP
In the course of our goofing around, wasting time, eating cake diligent research, we here at USDemocrazy constantly run into the word FILIBUSTER.
At first we thought it was a candy bar, we have since discovered that the filibuster is bitter-sweet. It can be both good and ,well a little annoying.
Basically the filibuster is a tactic used in the Senate to delay or prevent a vote on a particular bill.
Time for a bit of a history lesson… …read more.
