To hear Bush talk you think he wants to get us off of foreign oil yet that is not the case. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is warning that funding to repair highways is going to be a victim of higher gas mileage and may require a new tax initiative – including taxing drivers per […]
Earlier this week reports broke in the U.K. the Tony Blair had to talk Bush out of bombing al Jazeera. Since then the British Media has been gagged by Downing Street from reporting further on the memo. Channel 4 news in London has reported that the gag order came from pressure by the White House. […]
Newsweek has an interesting article that brings up the fact Karl Rove took out a $100,000 line of credit right after his last appearance before the grand jury. It also talks about the $5 million trust set up for the Libby defense. On the board of this trust is some major Republican fund raisers but […]
Mike Brown now has his new career ahead of him. That career is a consulting business on how to handle disasters. This from Scripps Howard: Ousted FEMA director Michael Brown, who was vilified over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, plans to make a fresh start in Colorado, selling his expertise about how emergency […]
Looking forward to 2006 we can start to see races form for Congressional seats which are up for grab. The DCC has launched a great site so you can see which states have the fights and even view the vote record of the Republican incumbent. This should be a great asset as we get ready […]
This Thanksgiving can be considered one of irony. The holiday is to celebrate the friendship between the pilgrims and Indians which of course turned into us taking the land from the Indians and giving them a life time of repression. This Thanksgiving is a little different though. It is almost a turn around. While some […]
We constantly hear that our troops favor the Republican position of staying the course in Iraq. If that is the case then why is it most Iraq vets running for Congress in ’06 are running as Democrats? Just take a look at these numbers from Mother Jones: Candidate Seat Party David Ashe Virginia 2nd D […]
What do you get when you have a congresswoman who has been in office three months crossing a thirty year veteran of Congress? A congresswoman working hard to do damage control. Ohio Republican Jean Schmidt said Tuesday she should have rephrased her sharp critique of a fellow congressman’s call to immediately pull troops from Iraq. […]
Bill O’Reilly wants to “cut and run”. He is now siding with Democrats in calling for a timetable to exit Iraq. This from Editor and Publisher: O’Reilly Column Says U.S. Needs Timetable to Get Out of Iraq By E&P Staff Published: November 22, 2005 1:17 PM ET NEW YORK Conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly writes in […]
In a new article appearing inSalon, they are talking about the possible downfall of Rep. Bob Ney, also referred to as the “mayor of Capital Hill”. His alleged involvement in the Abramoff scandal could signal an end to his political career. Ney is of course denying any wrong doing and playing the victim in the […]