While I was out-of-pocket last week, Senate Joint Resolution 26 went down to defeat in the Senate by a score of 53 to 47. Better known as “The Murkowski Amendment” after its author and sponsor, Sen. Lisa Murkowsi (Idiot-AK), SJR…
Tag: Federal Lawmaking
AR-Sen: Sen. Lincoln Hesitates Over Whether You Should Eat Tainted Food
Allow me to share with you a classic Arkansas-boy-meets-tainted-burger tale of love and debilitating illness. EL PASO, AR — Thomas Whitmire, 13, didn’t know the hamburger he ate a year ago would send him into the worse health crisis of…
AR-Sen: White House Giving Lincoln The Silent Treatment?
The Huffington Post thinks so. The White House is still formally supporting Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s re-election bid as the Arkansas Democratic primary approaches its runoff vote on Tuesday. But over the past few weeks, as the incumbent senator’s prospects for…
AR-Sen: Halter's Final Ad
My apologies. We got so embroiled in the Land Commissioner email story that I forgot to post Bill Halter and Blanche Lincoln’s final pre-runoff ads. First, Halter: I mentioned after Halter’s previous ad that I was impressed with the work…
AR-Sen: Philander Smith as Prop?
That’s the charge by Bill Halter, anyway. On the eve of former President Bill Clinton’s planned return to Arkansas to boost Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s reelection campaign, Democratic primary challenger Bill Halter’s campaign is charging Lincoln with “hypocrisy” over the venue…
AR-Sen: Halter "Inclined To Support" DADT Repeal
This accoring to Talk Business: [Bill] Halter also indicated his support for a repeal of the policy. “I am inclined to support the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ especially given the support that this has from our military leadership,”…
GOP: Faster Fish
We’ve been talking so much about technology around here lately that I just had to post this story, despite the fact that it has nothing to do with Arkansas directly. It seems that the GOP has decided that the best…
AR-Sen: Credit Where It's Due
Regarding the compromised reached on the proposed repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Sen. Lincoln said: Military readiness remains my top priority. I trust our military leaders to make the right decision on this issue. I am satisfied that a…
AR-Sen: Lincoln Continues To Fight For You By Not Fighting For You
Yesterday, two nonbinding motions to instruct the conference committee on how to iron out the discrepancies between the House and Senate financial reform bills were put up for a vote from the Senate. (Emphasis on the “nonbinding” part; the instructions…
AR-Sen: Proposed Title For Lincoln's New Ad: "Truth, The Remix"
This is Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s latest ad. Did you notice anything that might not be entirely accurate? David Dayen certainly did. Never mind that she’s using all kind of liberal imagery (Salon, Rachel Maddow, the New York Times) in the…