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Exploring the Political Spectrum
http://exploreps.blogspot.com/
A blog that describes the political process, and the history behind it. Primary focus is U.S., but also includes some posts about other countries' politics.
- Added on: Jul 6th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: schiller1979
- Listed in: Politics Political History
- Tags: politics history elections
Recent Posts
Circular Reasoning
Adam Liptak writes in The New York Times about points of agreement between some on the left and some on the right of the spectrum, regarding criminal justice issues.This is an excellent example of something I wrote about here, which is that the polit...
Let The Debate Begin
On Saturday, Senate Democrats held their 60-member caucus together, and were therefore successful on a cloture vote to allow consideration of health care legislation. The wavering Democrats whom I described here, all fell into line by that afternoon...
You\'re no George Washington
The American Constitution is often held up as the perfect governmental structure. The checks and balances bring things back into line, when any person or institution oversteps. And the amendment procedure is flexible enough to allow the document to...
Medicare: The Sequel
Nicholas Kristof, in The New York Times, cites similarities between the arguments that are currently being made against the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care plans, and objections that were raised when the Social Security and Medicare programs were first...
Take two aspirin, read the Constitution, and call me in the morning
George Will analyzes constitutional implications of the health care bills under consideration in Congress.He makes some plausible arguments about provisions of those bills being unconstitutional. But there doesn't seem to be any obvious cut-and-drie...
Reconciliation
I wrote here about a possible filibuster that would stop the Senate health care debate before it starts.But there has been much talk about the Senate's Democratic majority doing an end run around the filibuster rules. One vehicle for such a maneuver...
