Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. tells Boehner he is resigning from Congress
And conveniently he does so two weeks after the election:
A thank you – but hopefully not a goodbye – to Rep. @AllenWest
You’ve probably already seen this, but in case you hadn’t, Rep. West conceded to Patrick Murphy today, effectively ending his re-election bid:
Clyburn: GOP using “racial code words” to criticize @AmbassadorRice
In which the SC Democrat Congressman triples down on the nonsense:
Forget Denmark, something’s rotten in St. Lucie county, Florida
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Your “something’s fishy” moment of the day
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Understanding #ObamaCare realities, and how states can push back
When Speaker Boehner last week said in the aftermath of the election that ObamaCare was “the law of the land”, it made a lot of conservatives who have fought against the law since then-candidate Obama first proposed it when running for President very angry. And understandably so. Coming off a surprisingly lopsided defeat and still licking their wounds and wondering what the hell went wrong, acknowledging the reality that Congress can do very little about ObamaCare at this point outside of attempting to pick it apart here and there during budgeting negotiations was a bitter pill for many to swallow.