An op-ed that Eric Cantor wrote for yesterday’s Washington Post is very interesting, to say the least: But the politics of division have reared up, fueled by efforts to incite class warfare. For example, though he often talks about millionaires, billionaires and corporate jet owners paying their “fair share,” behind closed doors the president admits […]
These people don’t even try to hide their hypocrisy anymore: A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in. Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank […]
It’s funny how the Republicans always say “big government isn’t the solution”, but there is a very real scenario to look at in this nation that proves just the opposite: While health care reformers argue about what it would take to “break the curve” of health care inflation, the state of Maryland has done it, […]
Ironic that this comes just days after that National Review’s little cruise ended (I guess shit does float!). The NYTimes is reporting about the problems happening at the printed voice of neo-con thinking: In a span of 252 days, the National Review lost two Buckleys — one to death, another to resignation — and an […]
After years of being involved in administering different online communities, as well as developing the software for them, one thing never stops shocking me. When you get a user that crosses the line and you ban them, or take any action so they can no longer contribute to your online community, they start yelling that […]
He is going after the spend happy Republicans. When House Republicans convene behind closed doors today at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., they have a chance to make two bold moves to restore their reputation for fiscal responsibility. First, they could declare a one-year moratorium on Republican congressional earmarks. Second, they could […]
(updated and bumped) The Muckraker has uncovered a gem from the DOJ document dump: Four months after the San Diego United States Attorney’s office launched an investigation into whether he had accepted bribes from defense contractors, and little more than a month before he pled guilty to those charges, Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA) signed on […]
We ended up giving Bush his return to the White House in 2004. By we, I mean Ohio. The people on our side knew something was not quiet right about it, but our complaints went largely unheard. In January we finally saw a conviction in one of Ohio’s counties for rigging a recount. Today they […]
First we got the Military Times Group, who is responsible for publishing the Army Times and all the other main military magazines, publishing a rare joint editorial on Monday. That editorial is saying “Rumsfeld must go”: “So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion … it is necessary […]
One thing is for certain – Bush has used the federal government as a political pawn more than any other President. Here is even more proof of it: During a whirlwind five-hour trip to bolster an endangered GOP congressman’s reelection prospects, White House political guru Karl Rove last week delivered a fiery speech to 500 […]