Just check out the anger that is brewing over at townhalls: Of course my headline is totally misleading. Instead of Healthcare and Democratic Townhalls, it’s actually Republican Townhalls and the issue of taxes, but my headline might get the media to actually notice that the Republicans are getting heat at townhalls over taxes and Medicare. […]
The New York Times has run a lengthy profile on Tucson Shooter Jared Loughner, but out of the seven pages there is one part that caught the eye of Matt Drudge: This part of the complex puzzle of “who is Jared Loughner” appears on page 3 of the article: He became intrigued by antigovernment conspiracy […]
Just the fact that Obama is considering this is ridiculous: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday. The proposal — […]
Throughout 2009 we kept hearing about the need new and more wide-spread financial regulation. That’s when the market was down. Now that it is back up, it looks like new regulations might take a back seat: So what happened to Frank’s initial fervor? The stock market recovery — the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index is […]
I been reading through a lot of reactions to Arlen Specter’s party switch yesterday, and one quote stuck out at me: The Republican Party was founded as a party of individual rights and individual initiative. It led the fight to end slavery, give women the right to vote, expand national parks and break up corporate […]
This Tuesday is when Senate Democrats will vote on Lieberman’s fate, and that vote will be by secret ballot: Senate Democrats will decide by secret ballot Tuesday whether to take away Sen. Joe Lieberman‘s chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — a post from which he oversees U.S. security issues, as well […]
John McCain’ brother Joe makes a nasty call to 911 because he was in a traffic jam: Wasting emergency resources? Hopefully Joe McCain gets charged with this before the election. Give the country another example of how McCain’s think everyone owes them. What a bastard.
Bush yesterday: President Bush, saying that “normalcy is returning back to Iraq,” argued Thursday that last year’s U.S. troop “surge” has improved Iraq’s security to the point where political and economic progress are blossoming as well. Yeah because Americans are so stupid and don’t see the news, like: Shiite anger mounts in Iraq amid clashes […]
We hear Bush saying how he will get rid of earmarks all the time. Well that doesn’t look like the case so much: But Bush hesitates to exercise his authority. Surely he doesn’t fear challenging a Congress that trails him in public approval surveys. House Republican Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has reportedly warned administration officials […]
They call it a press conference, but we all know it is a lie conference, where Bush exhibits his contempt for the American people by flat out telling them lies. He must really think we are a bunch of stupid people. First off Think Progress brings us this very interesting fact: During the reign of […]