"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 22nd, 2009
Talk about a waste of money. This is from the party of fiscal responsibility. You know, the same people who spent a budget surplus and created structural deficits while fighting a multi-front war of choice. The same people who say that we can’t afford health care reform that would cost a fraction of the tax [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 17th, 2009
Lawmakers Warned About Health Costs CBO Chief Says Democrats’ Proposals Lack Necessary Controls on Spending via Budget Analyst Assails Cost of Congress’s Health-Care Proposals – washingtonpost.com. Look, the current situation in US health care simply isn’t sustainable. Obama campaigned against repealing the exemption on employer health benefits. It’s a huge subsidy to the fraying patchwork [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 13th, 2009
Feinstein Says Law May Have Been Broken – NYTimes.com. Feinstein thinks that oversight laws have been broken. The real question is will Lord Darth Cheney be held accountable for intentionally flouting the law? He seems very adept at avoiding accountability, ignoring Congress and being protected by GOP caucus on the Hill.
Posted in Blog Post on May 15th, 2009
via The Take: Pelosi’s Comments Raise Interrogation Debate to New Level – washingtonpost.com. She seems to be having a problem coming to terms with conflicting statements she made about when she knew about torture as a Bush era policy: Pelosi’s performance in the Capitol was either a calculated escalation of a long-running feud with the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 20th, 2009
Walking and Chewing Gum | TPM. Josh at TMP makes an intersting point bout the Harman-AIPAC-Gonzalez issue: … But it does not take too big a leap to see this going down rather differently — seeing Harman, fairly or unfairly, compromised by these wiretaps and thus beholden to the administration. Whether or not there’s anything [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 26th, 2009
Ezra on the non-budget from my favorite wankers in the GOP. It’s easier to snipe when you have no real proposal of you own: EzraKlein -MY FAVORITE BUDGET EVER It’s reads like what would happen if The Onion put together a budget. “Area Man Releases Proposal for 2010 Federal Spending Priorities.” (Though, to paraphrase William [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 31st, 2009
House Republicans “delighted” and “elated” and “celebrating” over their zero votes to save the economy. It’s about the economy stupid. The GOP has no interest in the good of the nation or the economy. They need to be punished for this at the ballot box (again). The only economists that agree that tax cuts are [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 29th, 2009
Liberal critics were right to point out that “bipartisanship” is empty rhetoric. The stimulus bill passed with ZERO Republican votes. The 33% of the $819 billion earmarked for tax cuts is simply one of the least effective means of economic stimulus. Cutting family planning funding was a complete waste of time and won nothing in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 15th, 2008
Executive Pay Limits May Prove Toothless Congress wanted to guarantee that the $700 billion financial bailout would limit the eye-popping pay of Wall Street executives, so lawmakers included a mechanism for reviewing executive compensation and penalizing firms that break the rules. But at the last minute, the Bush administration insisted on a one-sentence change to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 12th, 2008
Rachel gets to the heart of what drives the likes of Senators Kyl and Session (aka Foghorn Leghorn): GOP’s Platform is Now to Reduce the Wages of American Workers It appears to me that Senate Republicans are on an ideologically driven union-busting adventure here, that happens to have the prospect of increasing the market share [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 10th, 2008
This is direct result of democrats in Congress forcing the industry to, like maintain the planes instead of “self-regulating” passengers into smoking hole in the ground. I have another trans-pacific flight in 2 weeks and this comes not a moment too soon: New Delays Loom as F.A.A. Expands Airliner Review – New York Times Air [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 9th, 2008
Pelosi will stop fast-track clock – The Crypt’s Blog – Politico.com Political hardball played in response to Bush’s imperious dealing with Congress. Peolsi’s response is appropriate and long overdue. Better late than never.
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 1st, 2008
As Jefferson Ruling Stands, Prosecutors Feel Stymied – washingtonpost.com The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will not review a lower court’s decision that an FBI raid on Rep. William J. Jefferson’s congressional office violated the Constitution, a ruling that federal prosecutors had said could make lawmakers’ offices a “sanctuary for crime.” And how is [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 28th, 2008
42 Democrats Vow a Drawdown in Iraq If They Win Seats – washingtonpost.com Who knows? It might happen, the Democratic Congressional Caucus might just grow some spine in the next Congress.
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 27th, 2008
So Pelosi is supposed to support super delegates over turning the results of primary elections and caucuses or they’re going to pull fundung from Congressional candidates? TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | We have been strong supporters of the DCCC. We therefore urge you to clarify your position on super-delegates and reflect in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 11th, 2008
THE NEW REPUBLIC | Blogs – Good News for Al He’s in has the democratic nominee for a Senate seat from Minnesota. He’s good enough, smart enough and doggonit people like him. (Stoopid youtube failed me, not a single clip of Al Franken doing Stuart Smalley on SNL)
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 11th, 2008
TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | House Surveillance Bill Contains Provision to Aid Telecom Suits They might be showing signs of growing some spine. The provision authorizes judges to hear classified material, effective trumping the state secrets claim beloved by the Bush Justice Dept. It also adds a bipartisan commission to oversee surveillance program. It [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 8th, 2008
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 4th, 2008
Compromise? Does that translate into Democrats fainting, then signing whatever stupid fucking bill Bush wants?
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 29th, 2008
The Gavel » Blog Archive » Pelosi Letter to Attorney General Mukasey on Contempt Citations of Miers and Bolten Hardly. Speaker Pelosi asks AG Mike Mukasey to, uh you know like follow the law. He’s already stated that he believes the President has the authority to simply command his minions to ignore congressional subpoenas should [...]
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