So it turns out that a member of Congress was targeted for some NSA spying: And in one previously undisclosed episode, the N.S.A. tried to wiretap a member of Congress without a warrant, an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the matter said. The agency believed that the congressman, whose identity could not be determined, […]
Following Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann channeling McCarthyism yesterday, a site has launched asking for the censuring of Rep. Bachmann. I am intending on writing a letter to my Congressman, who also happens to be the minority leader, asking for action to be taken against her.
That would be former congressman, Republican Jim Leach from Iowa. Many might try to blow this off, but here is part of Leach’s resume: Interim director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow […]
It sounds like a joke, but it isn’t. Dr. Jack Kevorkian is considering running for Congress. Hell he would probably be one of the most honest people there.
Perhaps this has something to do with it: The surprise announcement comes within hours of the congressman’s daughter, Katie Weldon, being arrested and jailed, accused of attacking an employee at a Brevard County bar. (ht MyDD) Interesting how many legal problems seem to plague the GOP and their families.
Jim Welsh of New York is the latest in the massive GOP exodus from Capital Hill.
Now that we have another GOP congressman calling for defunding the war: Just received an email from our Washington reporter, Erin Kelly, who just got off the phone with Rep. Jim Walsh. She’s writing a story for tomorrow’s paper that reports the moderate Republican is switching gears and is now calling for withdrawal of U.S. […]
That is an article in Today’s Washington Post, which describes sheets our troops are given to describe lawmakers visiting: The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) […]
That is what Boehner called GOP Senators who are against the “surge”: Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) called for comity Wednesday during a meeting of the Republican Conference after House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) referred to Senate colleagues who have begun to favor a change in course in Iraq as “wimps.†Wilson declined to comment […]