Remember last month how the GOP constantly said cameras should be rolling during health care negotiations? Now that there’s a chance for that, well look at what’s happening: Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) today echoed Rep. John Boehner’s (R-OH) supposed concern that televising President Obama’s bipartisan health care reform summit would turn it into a “media […]
I’m sorry but Obama’s address to school children next week is nothing out of the ordinary. Some are trying to dismiss their concerns as “he might be too political”. Perhaps these people should have focused on their own education and a little bit of history in our nation: On November 14, 1988, Reagan addressed and […]
A new Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll, which was released today, has some very good news in it: With less than two weeks before the November 4 election, Obama leads McCain 52 percent to 40 percent among likely voters in the latest three-day tracking poll, which had a margin of error of 2.9 points. The biggest part of […]
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Obama 49% Clinton 36% Survey USA Clinton 52% Obama 42% So who will win? No one knows. Remember it’s not about states, but delegates. As we saw in Nevada, it is possible for someone to win the popular vote, but loose in the delegate count. Today will be very interesting. I’ll have the tracker […]
Because cronyism and profits always trumps life and pure ethics: The private security firm Blackwater USA, which has faced mounting criticism following an incident earlier this month in which armed guards from the group purportedly killed 11 unarmed Iraqi civilians, has numerous links to the White House as well as many current and former Republicans. […]
Yesterday I posted a video clip of Steny Hoyer on the House Floor. The clip was from C-Span. I posted it to YouTube, where it still remains. Luckily it looks like I might be ok in spite of the recent rash of YouTube bannings for copyright violations. This came to light by another apparent fight […]
The NSA hearings will start tomorrow at 9:30am eastern andGlenn Greenwald will be doing live blogging. If you are not near a television, the hearings can be watched onC-Span’s website.
Jonathon Turley, professor of Law for George Washington University, gave a very stern opening statement. He said the President has committed a crime by ignoring FISA. While we can argue his motivation the issue of the law is certain. He went into details of when he worked for the NSA as a law clerk and […]
Two weeks ago tomorrow was when Democrats shut down senate in order to get answers about the intelligence committees phase two report. That is the second part of the report that looks into the intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq. During that closed session, it was agreed upon that a committee be formed […]
Senator John Warner, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said he intends to summons Rumsfeld to Capital Hill to answer questions about Iraq. He is doing this because of the rising number of lost soldiers, the economic cost and the increased insurgency taking place in Iraq. Mr. Warner is also planning on holding hearings in […]