A list of the most vulnerable Democrats in the House this year shows that, to the extent that American voters are upset with Democrats in the House of Representatives, it’s not because the Democrats were too progressive.
Electric companies got government money with the help of Betsy Markey. Then, yesterday, Betsy Markey got money from people representing electric companies.
Sarah Palin is going after low hanging fruit. She’s chosen to target Democrats that will be easy to defeat, because they don’t have strong support from voters in their own political party.
Representative Betsy Markey’s best hope for re-election is that her eventual Republican challenger won’t show any more sense than Dean Madere has demonstrated so far.
Betsy Markey is making her political troubles worse, by aligning herself with the Blue Dog Coalition of right wing Democrats at precisely the time that the reputation of the Blue Dogs is in a worse state than ever.
Some people say that the economic recession has ended, but experts warn that the economy is almost certainly not improving. Profits for big corporations are up, but ordinary Americans are still suffering from extremely high levels of unemployment. U.S. Representative Jim McDermott offered legislation this week to help. He introduced H.R. 3548, the Unemployment Compensation [...]
What can you say that’s nice about Betsy Markey, U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 4th congressional district? Well, at least she isn’t Marilyn Musgrave. The previous representative for Colorado’s 4th District, Musgrave voted to legalize government snooping on citizens without a warrant, tried to restrict the range of free political expression, embarrassed herself with voracious anti-foreigner [...]
The public housing program funded in H.R. 3288 also ought to please conservatives, given that the form of housing it supports is a change from old public housing programs, which created high crime areas by concentrating a combination of desperate and vulnerable people through tracts of purely low-income housing. The new program demolishes the old projects and replaces them with mixed-income housing.
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