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Thursday, April 29, 2010

How Liberal is Your Lawmaker?


Want to know how liberal your Senator or Congressional Representative is compared to other members of Congress? National Journal has an interactive tool that rates lawmakers, on a conservative-to-liberal scale, based upon their Congressional voting record throughout 2009. Lawmakers are assigned scores for each of their roll-call votes on leading economic, social and foreign-policy issues. 

The magazine determined that “long-standing ideological divides have persisted – and even deepened – in President Obama’s Washington.”  That’s stating the obvious. 

Scroll down on the landing page to access the tool.

A Tale of Two Protest Demonstrations

The SWAT team is called out in Quincy, IL yesterday to control the Tea Party crowd protesting Obama's speech at the Oakley Lindsay Civic Center.






Meanwhile in Phoenix: