The AP has put out a fact check of President Obama’s claim last night that everything in his jobs program is paid for: resident Barack Obama’s promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions. It will only be paid for if a committee he can’t control […]
There’s not much I like about Rick Perry, but this idea from his book ‘Fed Up’ is one I can definitely get behind: One solution the governor embraces is to end lifetime tenure — a cornerstone of the Constitution, whose drafters worried far less about activist or senile judges than about meddling tyrants and political […]
Writing in an op-ed in today’s Mooney Times, Jeffery Kuhner floats the idea of impeaching President Obama if health care reform passes. His argument is the same old strawman we have been hearing all week – the “deem and pass” of the House of Representative: Many Democrats could claim they opposed the Senate bill while […]
Just got the breaking news alert. God forbid people get to see what happens in our third branch of government. My guess is that the SCOTUS is afraid it would set precedent to open up their trials to the public.
I’m sure the right is outraged over Supreme Court Justice David Souter announcing his retirement only a few months into a Democratic administration. They probably view it as the final deception by the George H.W. Bush choice who turned out to be more to the left than right. Now we get the media frenzy over […]
Finally there is something I can agree on with the Supreme Court. They have refused to review the Justice Department’s appeal on the raid of Rep. William Jefferson’s office. That leaves a lower court’s ruling that the raid was unconstitutional intact. Don’t get me wrong on this – I firmly believe Jefferson is corrupt and […]
This is from a press release that went out this afternoon from The Heritage Forests Campaign: The Bush administration today released documents announcing its intention to remove protections for more than six million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of Idaho. Idaho’s roadless backcountry areas are some of the nation’s last intact national […]
The Bush dictatorship is in full swing and today the Boston Globe takes a look at how it got to this point: President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when […]
It looks like Pat Roberts has made somewhat a change in how he feels the wiretapping program should operate: The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Friday that he wanted the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program brought under the authority of a special intelligence court, a move President Bush has argued is not necessary. […]
Well here is one of the “checks and balances” that Bush must really hate: A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Justice Department to respond within 20 days to requests by a civil liberties group for documents about President George W. Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program. The ruling was a victory for the Electronic Privacy […]