An article appearing in today’s Dayton Daily News, as well as a bunch of other local newspapers in Ohio’s 8th, has me laughing: As John Boehner’s political star rises quickly toward a likely term as Speaker of the House, his constituents in the 8th District may wonder how the job has affected others who have […]
Another blue dog bites the dust: Sen. Evan Bayh will not run for re-election, a decision that will shock Democrats and Republicans alike in Indiana. In prepared remarks, Bayh, 54, cited excessive partisanship that makes progress on public policy difficult to achieve as the motivation for his decision. “After all these years, my passion for […]
We face big and difficult challenges. And what the American people hope – what they deserve – is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds and different stories and different beliefs, […]
The worse level since 1982, but that’s ok. We aren’t worried about jobs or our houses. All we need to worry about is if the Democrats and Republicans can get along. If we can’t get X numbers of Republicans to agree to the stimulus then that isn’t bi-partisan and no one in this country wants […]
Andrea Mitchell was on Morning Joe blaming Barack Obama for the bailout failing. Her argument is that he didn’t bring the Congressional Black Caucus on board to vote for it. She gets noticeably mad about this, despite the fact that Democrats delivered more votes than promise and the fact that the CBC was dead set […]
Funny how they were so against ethics reform a few months ago, but now they want earmark reform. Yes we do need it, but I can’t help think that this is an election year ploy, especially when they are issuing this statement from a lobbyist funded retreat. They also had no problems with earmarks a […]
Here in Butler County, Ohio, we are plagued with GOP scandals also. Just today we had this happen: A Butler County official pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor crime. Former county treasurer Carole Mosketti avoided jail time for her conviction on a conflict-of-interest charge, a judge fined her $1,000 and ordered her to pay $3,800 […]
This entire debacle that has started by a very legitimate resolution offered by Russ Feingold has just got me fuming. His motion to censure Bush is by far one of the most reasonable requests that have been made in the 109th Congress. Rather you are for or against the wiretapping program, one thing remains – […]
President Bush has announced that he will not release papers on the embattled Harriet Miers. Via Reuters: Bush says won’t release papers on Miers President George W. Bush, citing confidentiality, said on Monday he would refuse to release documents showing what U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers recommended to him as a White House lawyer. […]