Hmmm somehow having this name out there today seems to have a very odd twist of irony: Joe the Plumber is scheduled to address GOP congressional aides today on the economic stimulus package, Politico reports. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, of Ohio, became a household name during the presidential campaign after a brief sidewalk debate with candidate […]
That has been the mantra of the Bush administration and Republicans for year, and it was even included in the TARP: Congress wanted to guarantee that the $700 billion financial bailout would limit the eye-popping pay of Wall Street executives, so lawmakers included a mechanism for reviewing executive compensation and penalizing firms that break the […]
The White House will stop at nothing until they get all the federal prosecutors replaced with their political buddies: A United States attorney in Arkansas who was dismissed from his job last year by the Justice Department was ousted after Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel, intervened on behalf of the man who […]
Conrad Burns has really pissed me off lately. It started when he decided to attack firefighters, and then after calling them “lazy”, gets caught napping during a meeting in Senate. Now it looks like paypack may become very sweet: After months of defiant protestations of innocence about his role in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, […]
Well imagine this. The Republicans are holding the lower class citizens hostage yet again: Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it’s coupled with a cut in future inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional aides said Friday. A package GOP leaders planned to bring to […]
The report released by McCain’s Indian Affairs Committee sure makes it look bad for old Bob Ney. As matter of fact it looks like he may have done the same thing Clinton did to get impeached: In the fall of 2004, Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) told Senate investigators that he was unfamiliar with a […]
Last week the Appropriation Committees of the House and Senate reached a deal on the supplemental appropriations bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The new bill is expected to make it to the floor this week for debate and is expected to pass. Originally there was a provision in this bill to […]
Now think to yourself about why Osama became our enemy instead of our asset in the early 90’s as you read this: Congressional Republicans killed a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have put the United States on record against the permanent basing of U.S. military facilities in that country, a lawmaker […]
As if Diebold’s crooked business practices isn’t enough of a threat to our voting rights and the basis of our democracy, we now learn that the Justice Department is also posing a harsh threat: The Justice Department has barred staff attorneys from offering recommendations in major Voting Rights Act cases, marking a significant change in […]