Marsha Blackburn

Obama's Quandry: Bashing Blundering Banks While Courting Wall Street Cash

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Corruption, 2012 Elections, Dodd-Frank, Marsha Blackburn, Derivatives, Economy, Financial Reform, Bank of America, Wall Street Reform, Mitt Romney, Jobs, Money in Politics, Obama, Democrats, Romney, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, 2012, Thune, Video, Wall Street, Trade, Jpmorgan, Banks, J.P. Morgan, Occupy, November Elections, Fat Cats, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's response to JPMorgan Chase's spectacular trading failure underscores a persistent tension in his presidency -- ...

Read Whole Story

Barney Frank Lays Into House Republican On Jobs, Wall Street Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: 2012 Elections, Dodd-Frank, Marsha Blackburn, Economy, Barney Frank, Wall Street Reform, Jobs, Obama, Volcker Rule, Romney, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Gay Rights, 2012 Election, Jpmorgan, November Elections, Gay Marriage, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) lit into Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Sunday, when both appeared on ABC's "This Week." The show sta...

Read Whole Story

LOOK: Baldwin, Other Celebrities Head To Capitol Hill To Press Arts Funding Cause

AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Congress, Capitol Hill, Marsha Blackburn, Harper Hill, Melina Kanakaredes, Ben Folds, Americans for the Arts, Nea, Arts Funding, Tiffani Thiessen, Alex Baldwin, National Endowment for the Arts, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Celebrities including Alec Baldwin visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts. Baldwin and o...

Read Whole Story

Republicans Deny Their Support Of Green Energy Is Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Dave Camp, Video, Fred Upton, Michele Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn, Alternative Energy, Steven Chu, Republican Green Energy Hypocrisy, Green, Republicans Green Energy, Republican Green Efforts, Department of Energy, Steven Chu Energy Secretary, Green Energy, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A group of Republicans are complaining that Energy Secretary Steven Chu has mischaracterized GOP lawmakers' attempts to speed up federal...

Read Whole Story

Best Dressed Politicos Of 2011: It's Not Who You Think

Christina Wilkie | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Slideshow, 2011 Year in Review, Aaron Schock, Marco Rubio, Marsha Blackburn, Frederica Wilson, Mitt Romney, Kelly Ayotte, Hillary Clinton, Michele Bachmann, Slidepollajax, Style News

Fashion Whip is a political style column in The Huffington Post by Lauren Rothman and Christina Wilkie. Rothman is the founder of Styleauteur. WASHIN...

Read Post

Send in the Clowns

Jim Worth | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Politics, Deficit, Tea Party, Unemployment, President Obama, Michele Bachmann, Middle-Class, Marsha Blackburn, Congress, Republicans, Taxpayers, Democrats, Sarah Palin, Economy, Politics News

Republicans seem to be getting crazier with every election! Tennessee Representative, Marsha Blackburn's, appearance on The Last Word with Lawrence O...

Read Post

The Palinization of America

Jim Worth | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Education, Michele Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn, Politics, Palin, Donald Trump, Rick Santorum, Republicans, Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Politics News

For many years America has been sliding into a dark abyss... ... succumbing to the lowest common-denominator -- spurning intelligence for 'cool.' As...

Read Post

Battle of the Budget Bulge: Living Within Our Means?

Omer Rosen | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Taxes, Federal Budget Deficit, Marsha Blackburn, Budget Cuts, Economy, Budget, Oil, Environment, Brian Lehrer, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

We are told to live within our monetary means, yet, rather than being told to also live within our environmental means, we are encouraged to live outside of them -- as if there is an outside to this planet.

Read Post

U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again

Art Brodsky | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: AT&T, Net Neutrality, Internet, Fred Upton, Henry Waxman, Aol, Fcc, Marsha Blackburn, House Fcc, House Net Neutrality, Technology News

What was remarkable about the House vote today was how the Republicans managed to at once speak in favor of the legislation as helping small business, while ignoring the testimony from those very businesses that opposed it.

Read Post

House Goes Nuts Over Net Neutrality

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: SavetheInternet.Com, Free Press, Net Neutrality, Marsha Blackburn, House Republicans, Technology News

American Internet users need to choose between the open Internet that lets us view any content, anywhere, and the walled garden that the big phone and cable companies want to build around us.

Read Post

Corporate Welfare for the Few Drives Net Neutrality Opposition

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Governor Scott Walker, Marsha Blackburn, John Boehner, AT&T, Net Neutrality, Technology News

The Republican agenda, whether carried out in Washington, D.C., or in Madison, Wisconsin, has nothing to do with market failures and everything to do with simple, good old-fashioned corporate welfare -- but only for the right corporations, of course.

Read Post

Speaker Boehner's Space Odyssey

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: SavetheInternet.Com, Free Press, Fcc, Marsha Blackburn, John Boehner, Net Neutrality, Technology News

Boehner knows full well that real Net Neutrality has nothing to do with a government takeover of the Internet. He's playing dog-whistle politics and stoking irrational fears of government repression.

Read Post

Obama Tech Plans at Risk From FCC and GOP Congress

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mary Bono Mack, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, Marsha Blackburn, AT&T, State of the Union, Barack Obama, Net Neutrality, Technology News

Obama's SOTU set an ambitious goal of "high-speed wireless coverage to 98 percent of all Americans." What he didn't say was that the FCC has sentenced those wireless users to a second-class Internet experience.

Read Post

GOP's 'Tech Policy Champion' In The Pocket Of Telecoms

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politico, Lobbying, Marsha Blackburn, Lobbyists, Eat the Press, Net Neutrality, Politics News

I have to admit, when I saw this headline, "Will Marsha Blackburn be GOP's next tech policy champion?" in Politico, there was a brief, mad moment wher...

Read Whole Story

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Debate?

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Elections, Slidepollajax, Mark McKinnon, 2010 Debates, Debate, Rory Reid, Marsha Blackburn, Paul Begala, Bill White, Sharron Angle, Tom Perriello, Rick Perry, Eat the Press, Elections 2010, Politics News

There are few traditions more central to political campaigns than debates between the candidates. In the biggest races, they're nationally televised e...

Read Whole Story

BP Lobbyist To Host Fundraiser For Cory Gardner This Week

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Congressional Race, Bp, Duberstein Group, Lobyist for Bp, 2010, Betsy Markey, Marsha Blackburn, Cory Gardner Bp, Erik Paulsen, Dan Meyer, Cory Gardner, Denver News

In the wake of the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, even the appearance of sympathy for BP has been seen as potentially career-thre...

Read Whole Story

Can Financial Regulatory Reform Prevent The Next Goldman?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Regulatory Reform, Goldman Sachs, SEC Goldman Sachs, Marsha Blackburn, Financial Reform, Financial Regulation, Eat the Press, Business News

There's a talking point emerging: since it's possible to bring SEC charges against Wall Street firms anyway, what's the point in more regulation?

Read Whole Story

Steny Hoyer: House Must Move First On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House Democrats, Health Care Reconciliation, Healh Care Bill, Marsha Blackburn, Kent Conrad, Health Care Reform, White House Health Care, Senate Democrats, Congress Health Care, House Health Care, Reconciliation, Steny Hoyer, Politics News

Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Sunday that the House must move on a package of fixes to the health care bill before the Senate...

Read Whole Story

How Much Longer Can the GOP Maintain Credibility When All They Say Is "No! No! No! No! No!"?

Kara Vallow | Posted 05.25.2011

It seems that there is no Republican principle that cannot be instantly disavowed if Obama decides it's worth backing.

Read Post

Tea Partiers Converge On Opryland Hotel For National Convention

Alex Brant-Zawadzki | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Michele Bachmann, Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Marsha Blackburn, Robin Stublen, Tax Day Tea Parties, Sarah Palin, National Tea Party Convention, Tea Party, Politics News

Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit This weekend, the controversial National Tea Party Convention kicks off in Nashville at th...

Read Post

Rep. Blackburn Won't Pledge To Stop Calling Obama A Socialist

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blackburn Obama, Obam Tyran, Obama Socialist, Marsha Blackburn, Blackburn Socialist Obama, Blackburn Pledge, Blackburn, Politics News

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, one of the most prominent flamethrowers in the House of Representatives, simply could not commit herself on Thursday to no long...

Read Whole Story

Tea Party Movie Premieres With Congressional GOP In Attendance (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party Activists, My Little Pony, Dick Armies, Freedomworks, Tom Price, Marsha Blackburn, Dick Armey, Joe Wilson, Tea Party, Jim Demint, John McCain, Eat the Press, Video, Politics News

Tea Party activists got to play the part of the glitterati Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, DC, where FreedomWorks debuted...

Read Whole Story