This is something I never thought I would see: Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama’s health-care legislation. Late into the night, Democrats emerged from a huddle […]
Or as I like to call it, “Fucking Crooks!”. It looks like Mitch McConnell is more worried about his own finances than he is the country. Here is an interesting story that rings of Duke Cunningham: Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is pushing $25 million in earmarked federal funds for a British defense contractor that is […]
Well this is really fishy. It looks like Hassert and Frist slipped some legislation into the Defense Appropriations Bill AFTER the bill was alread voted on. Aravosis has all the details.
When Democrats successfully got the ANWR provision stripped from the defense budget on Wednesday, Republicans decided to punish the poor people in the country by hurting their federal assistance with rising heating prices. This is brought up by a newpress release issued by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorites, a non-partisan research group: WASHINGTON, […]
Apparently protecting the gun manufacturers from lawsuits is more important than the safety of our troops in the eyes of Senate leader Bill Frist. Frist put off the 491 billion dollar defense appropriations bill until the fall so that what he considers “more pressing†legislation can be brought to the floor and voted upon before […]