With a little over four months to go, things are going to really heat up for the mid-term elections: White House political strategist Karl Rove emerges from the CIA leak case with his reputation scuffed, his power slightly diminished, and Republicans counting on him, once again, to help rescue their House and Senate majorities. Described […]
The little whores that are the Republican leadership have bowed down yet again: Phone company executives won’t be grilled by a Senate panel anytime soon about their roles in the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Tuesday he will hold off subpoenaing the telecommunications chiefs while he works with […]
More proof of Bush’s dwindling “political capital” was evident yesterday as the Senate Finance Committee struck down the Bush tax cuts. The measure could be voted on by Senate today. The tax cuts removed were part of Bush’s first term tax cut program which he has campaigned Congress to make permanent. During his re-election campaign, […]