For those who have missed it, there has been a new little battle that brewed when Robert Novak told CSpan this past weekend that he would never watch Jon Stewart and referred to him as a “self-righteous comedian taking on airs of grandeur”. Think Progress has the video of Novak’s interview. Well this week Stewart […]
The chairman of Virgin Group has pledged $3 billion over the next 10 years to combating global warming. CNN has all the details. The world would be much better if the CEO’s would take such initiatives as Branson has.
Turns out Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist logged over 100 visits to the Bush White House. What makes this so interesting is the fact both men have been tied to Jack Abramoff. So how much longer before we get investigators looking at what “presidential favors” Bush did for these guys, which in turn were for […]
I was flipping through the channels, when I came across FOX news. They were talking about Chavez’ comments to the U.N. today, but that wasn’t the biggie. The highlight was when they said he was heading to Harlem tomorrow to talk about poverty. The reporters on FOX of course blasted him because “he doesn’t address […]
This is the absolute proof of the hypocrisy the Republican party exhibits: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist signaled yesterday that he and other White House allies will filibuster a bill dealing with the interrogation and prosecution of detainees if they cannot persuade a rival group of Republicans to rewrite key provisions opposed by President Bush. […]
Iraq is getting worse by the day and they are starting to give up on these little “rosie” assessments we have become use to hearing. Here is the latest news from the Pentagon: The U.S. military will likely maintain the current force levels of more than 140,000 troops in Iraq through next spring, the top […]
This guy just makes it too easy: Montana Sen. Conrad Burns (news, bio, voting record), a Republican in a tight re-election race, flew on a private plane chartered by Vonage Holdings Corp. just days after he pushed legislation that the company has advocated for more than a year. Burns accompanied Vonage lobbyist Frank Cavaliere on […]
This one is really nice: [Rick] Santorum, who alluded to his rocky relations with the press as he hopped from room to room to meet with regional caucuses earlier in the morning, later refused to talk when a Patriot-News reporter approached with a question about Iran. He complained about what he called biased coverage. “I […]
Conrad Burns has really pissed me off lately. It started when he decided to attack firefighters, and then after calling them “lazy”, gets caught napping during a meeting in Senate. Now it looks like paypack may become very sweet: After months of defiant protestations of innocence about his role in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, […]
And give a Power Point presentation of all these secret nuclear facilities in Iran? In an echo of the intelligence wars that preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a high-stakes struggle is brewing within the Bush administration and in Congress over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program and involvement in terrorism. U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials […]