Category: Politics

Fast forward to about the 2:30 mark and check out Alan Grayson’s little jab at Cheney. This guy is teh awesome!

Given the big news of the day, that Democrats plan to forgo the formal conference and instead ping-pong the health care bill into final legislation, I am now stuck turning to Michelle Malkin, who is citing the 2006 report from Democrats on the “death of deliberative democracy”: The conference process in the 108th Congress is […]

From Mashable: As the snow piled up on New Year’s Eve, Jersey resident Ravie Rave didn’t call a snow plow service to take care of her 65-year-old father’s walk — she tweeted at Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who showed up shortly with shovels and salt. Booker, who has more than a million Twitter followers, is […]

Now this is the kind of change we believe in: The US has lifted a 22-year immigration ban which has stopped anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country. President Obama said the ban was not compatible with US plans to be a leader in the fight against the disease. The new rules come into force […]

It’s becoming very obvious that Andrew Breitbart is getting his jollies off by twittering about fisting and other sexual acts. Just check out his feed: What is your favorite @mmfa Soros-funded ‘senior fellow’ moment of ’09? #fisting #watersports #acorn #mao #yosisargent #infinity 6 minutes ago from web My fave 09 Soros senior fellow @mmfa ‘R […]

When Sarah Palin had her final book signing in Alaska Todd Palin put out a list of people not allowed to attend. One of them was Shannyn Moore: Sarah Palin’s Wasilla book signing had a few rules. “Per Todd Palin”, three of us were banned. “Public servants” in their police uniforms at a “public event” […]

People for the American Way released a report examining the filibuster in the Senate. They have found during the current session of Congress that cloture was invoked a record 89% of the time. Here is a historical graph showing the sharp increase in the usage this year: But the report goes beyond that, to a […]

Wow the birther queen is crazier than we thought: What is the real intention of this Kenyan, Indonesian communist usurper? Is it to provide security for us or to destroy our security? Judge for yourself. Seeing targeted destruction of our economy, our security, dissipation of American jobs, massive corruption in the Government, Congress Department of […]

As Chris Cillizza points out there was one big news item last week that got lost in the shuffle – redistricting. Look at this break down of states that will gain and lose seats according to the Census Bureau’s early estimates: States Gaining Seats Arizona (+1)*: Gov. Jane Brewer (R) up in 2010; state Senate […]

Ezra Klein interviewed Sen. Tom Harkin and this really caught my eye: Tell me a bit about your reform bill. When you first introduced this, Joe Lieberman was your co-sponsor, right? Well, I introduced that first in 1995, when we were in the minority. I’m going to reintroduce that again in January. And people are […]