Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning is continuing his demand that a $10 billion bill to aid the unemployed and construction workers be paid for and not add to the deficit, Hillary Clinton in Chile, Obama health plan due Wednesday, Obama pushes ‘green jobs’, gay marriage about to start in DC, Ford will not run for Senate in New York.
Archives for March 2, 2010
Guns and the Supreme Court
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of McDonald v. Chicago, a challenge to the Windy City’s gun control laws. What key Constitutional issues are being argued? How is this case different than the ruling on the Washington, D.C., gun law in 2008? What clues did the justices give into how this case will be decided?
Obamacare Still A ‘Toxic Stew’
Iowa Rep. Steve King says he can’t imagine any Republicans supporting the new Obama health plan just because he might add a good idea or two. King says this is still the same bill the American people rejected under Bill Clinton and again in polls and in the Massachusetts senate race.
Intentional Assault on Values
Iowa Rep. Steve King discusses the fight over the definition of marriage here in Washington. King says courts and politics are conspiring against efforts to allow voters to determine the law. King says Republicans in Congress have a full agenda, but should have done more to suspend gay marriage in D.C. until voters have their say. He says Democratic leaders had no intention of bringing this up because they enjoy attacking and dismantling traditional values like marriage and respect for the sanctity of life.
Democracy Denied in D.C.
Barring an 11th hour intervention from the courts, gay marriage licenses will be issued in Washington, D.C., as early as Wednesday. Why do traditional marriage supporters say voters in the nation’s capital have been deprived of their right to decide this issue on their own? What is the argument for denying the vote? Why have Congressional Republican leaders done nothing to intervene? We ask Brian Brown, executive director at the National Organization for Marriage. Mr. Brown also explains why Maryland’s attorney general is violating the law by saying his state should recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere.