How dare you talk about David Vitter’s private life! That’s what the right kept saying when Vitter’s name came up in the D.C. Madam scandal. But now we have a new sex scandal. This time it involves a Democrat and apparently the right wants to talk about it none stop! First, the back story: Amid […]
Righthaven, the Nevada company that is suing people all over the internet for “copyright violations” is in serious financial troubles: Despite its backing by the billionaire Warren Stephens family, Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC warned today it may have to file for bankruptcy because of a series of setbacks in its litigation campaign. […]
Harry Reid might be finally growing a pair. He did something very sneaky tonight: The handful of Republican members who had planned on skipping President Obama’s jobs address to a joint session Thursday night might have to think again. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has scheduled a vote for Thursday to proceed on a […]
Yesterday another attempt to raise the liability limit on big oil for spills was blocked by the GOP. Now the GOP is trying their own bill: After a third Republican block of a Democratic bill to raise the liability on oil spills, the GOP put forward its own bill on Tuesday afternoon. This one would […]
Kind of shocking – a Republican in an affair scandal that actually resigns? He certainly isn’t a typical Republican like David Vitter, John Ensign or Mark Sanford: Indiana congressman Mark Souder (R) will resign his seat after an affair with a staffer came to light, he said in a statement this morning. “It is with […]
With an ethics probe and calls for resignation mounting against John Ensign, the embattled Senator has one friend willing to lie for him – Joe Scarborough. This morning while discussing the ongoing trouble for Ensign, Scarborough asked if anyone called for John Edwards to resign when his affair came out. Wait! Edwards resign? Joe apparently […]
My second call out of the day goes to David Vitter: Over 2,200 veterans died last year because of a lack of healthcare. Will David Vitter support a robust public option that would provide care to not only to the millions of uninsured citizens, but also our veterans? [congress]V000127[/congress]
This whole ACORN thing is really something worthy of a new blockbuster movie. This part here would serve as some comic relief during it: Then there’s the man who bills himself as “the Senate’s most outspoken critic of ACORN,” Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana. Vitter has introduced a bill that would deny any federal funds to […]
There is no argument that when it comes to our politicians and their little sexcapades we have a double standard in this nation – a standard clearly divided amongst party lines. Take John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Elliot Spitzer or Jim McGreevey. These four Democrats suffered severely for their extramarital affairs. One was impeached, two were […]
And we don’t have anyone running FEMA yet. But don’t blame the President or Democrats for that: A Louisiana senator is stalling Florida emergency management director Craig Fugate’s nomination as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Fugate had sailed through his nomination hearing and Monday cleared the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee […]