No Liberals in Congress? So Suggests NYT's Steinhauer
New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer showed typical Times labeling slant in her Saturday update on Congress’s so-far-failed attempts to keep the government open after the end of the month.
After House approval of its stopgap bill after midnight on Friday, the Senate voted 59 to 36 to set aside the House bill, with a handful of conservative Republicans joining with Democrats to deliver a quick and decisive rejection. Democrats opposed the measure because the disaster relief effort was offset by spending cuts to other programs dear to them. Conservatives appeared to feel their House colleagues had failed to cut short-term spending deeply enough.
The House bill, which had passed on the second attempt after cuts were added to appeal to conservatives, provided $3.65 billion in disaster relief. The money was offset by cuts to an Energy Department loan program for energy-efficient cars and another department program that was used to guarantee a loan for Solyndra, the solar equipment manufacturer that filed recently for bankruptcy protection.
Are there no liberals in Congress?
Such labeling slant is a habit; a Steinhauer story from April accused Republican Rep. Allan West of “incendiary remarks” and “hard-right” stands. Meanwhile, far-left Rep. Dennis Kucinich is simply a "Democrat of Ohio."
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the way I hear it
Submitted by kata on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:20pm.
The Senate has evaporated entirely.
No Liberals In Congress??
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:31pm.
Communists yes, Socialists certainly!! But absolutely NO liberals!
Clinton was the dea th knell for Liberalism
Submitted by pockets64 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:20pm.
Now that liberalism has been defeated, outright aggressive communism and socialism has nothing to hide behind.
When Rush predicted the fall of liberalism, I don't think he foresaw that it would be replaced by something worse. I know I was hoping for something closer to Truman's liberalism.
I'd bet that Steinhauer still thinks
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:08pm.
the last Stimulus provided shovel ready jobs, too.
And, why should the DoE exist, much less be loaning(giving) even more money to GM and Chrysler? Or funding wind "farms" or solar panel factories that don't produce solar panels?
Ms. Steinhauer, do these clowns ring a bell?
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:25pm.
No liberals in Congress, huh? Ms. Steinhauer, how about these clowns: Nancy Pelosi, Al Franken and Chuckie Schumer??? The last time I looked, these guys were undeniably liberal...
Although there are liberals
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:26pm.
Although there are liberals all over Congress, that's a good slogan for the conservatives. "No liberals in Congress!"
Steinhauer is right - there are no liberals in congress anymore
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:45pm.
They are all communists now.
-Dave
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Generic democrats
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 6:43pm.
Apparently, those were generic democrats in the Senate.
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