The first major debate of the 2012 Republican Presidential primaries took place last night and the big news came from Michele Bachmann: Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, an outspoken Republican with close ties to the tea party, announced Monday that she is running for president, a candidacy that could further shake up a volatile fight for […]
This woman has no damn sense at all: Parents of Cincinnati elementary school students are upset over remarks made by U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt. She reportedly brought up the abortion issue in front of children as young as 6. The Catholic school asked not to be identified because it doesn’t want to be drawn into […]
Jean “full of” Schmidt is creating a legal trust fund: Rep. Jean Schmidt said Wednesday she plans to create a trust to cover legal expenses associated with a defamation lawsuit filed on her behalf in Clermont County Common Pleas Court against a former political opponent, David Krikorian. The trust would be able to accept up […]
The lady that Buffalo Spingfield lyrics were written for: The Minnesota Republican congresswoman who claimed that President Barack Obama nationalized “51 percent” of the economy has concocted a yet stranger fiction. She believes former President Bill Clinton is trying to “take me out.” “Because I’m using a statement like ‘gangster,’ I’m responsible for creating the […]
God forbid that we allow any abortion coverage in the health care bill: While Republicans and some Democrats want to hold up health care reform because of the false premise that abortions would be covered, the Washington State GOP provides its employees health care through a consortium that does just that. Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers blasted […]
After yesterday’s back and forth of rather or not Jane Harman got the New York Times to hold the wiretapping story in 2004, it is now confirmed. She in fact did: Congresswoman Harman spoke to Washington Bureau Chief Phil Taubman in late October or early November, 2004, apparently at the request of General Hayden. She […]
This is a perfect example of how psychotic Jean “full of” Schmidt really is: This doesn’t happen every day: An incumbent member of Congress, in the middle of a re-election battle, says that storing nuclear waste shipments from around the world in her district may be a good idea. U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt does say […]
This will be in tomorrows New York Times: Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON, Feb. 7  A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program. […]
What do you get when you have a congresswoman who has been in office three months crossing a thirty year veteran of Congress? A congresswoman working hard to do damage control. Ohio Republican Jean Schmidt said Tuesday she should have rephrased her sharp critique of a fellow congressman’s call to immediately pull troops from Iraq. […]
The Republican’s plan to divide the Democrats over the issue of pulling troops out of Iraq backfired last night. With a final vote of 403-3 defeating Duncan Hunter’s resolution of immediate withdrawal. The debate over the issue was some of the most heated I have seen in years. The Republican’s tried to maintain that the […]