So he says: In two interviews before the Army took McCain and 60 Minutes on the heavily guarded visit to the al-Shorja market last Sunday, the senator said security had improved in Iraq. Upon his return, he also told a news conference he had just come back from a neighborhood one could walk around in […]
We knew this would happen. How dare someone prosecute corrupt members of the GOP. Brad has all the details.
Today’s New York Times has obtained documents showing the NYPD spied upon people who were planning to protest the 2004 GOP Convention: For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of […]
This was a priceless moment during today’s hearings on Global Warming. Of course Inhofe is the one who constantly denies global warming. During the opening of today’s hearings, you could quickly tell the Republicans were planning to dodge the actual issue by raising parliamentary procedures. Oh how mature of them. The typical GOP response – […]
I posted earlier this week about Cincinnati billionaire Carl Lindner and his deep pockets for the GOP. As you recall, Lindner was the CEO of Chiquita during the time they were supporting terrorist organizations in South America. In that post I directed the readers to Newsmeat to check out Carl’s past donations. I also noted that […]
Yesterday posted about the mountain of failures this administration has had. From Iraq to Katrina, it can be a full time job just documenting all the wrong turns the Bush White House has made. Also yesterday, we saw the first Republican publicly calling for Gonzales to go. John Sununu has been critical of the administration […]
Lieberman swore up and down during his campaign that he would not switch parties. Now he isn’t sounding so sure. Editor and Publisher has a preview of an article slated for tomorrow’s Time magazine: “Independent” Sen. Joe Liebeman receives a mini-profile titled “What Joe Wants,” a key question since he is “the Senate’s one-man tipping […]
During the House debate on the Iraq Resolution, Heather Wilson (R-NM) started following the old GOP meme that the Democrats are cutting funding to the troops. She even said that the resolution will prevent the troops from getting the necessary body armor. Steny Hoyer has had enough. Following Wilson’s remarks he came to the floor […]
Funny how the same party that argued “if people can’t survive on minimum wage, they need to work more” is bitching like a bunch of children about having to work a full 5 day week. The Politico has an article up with such quotes as this: “They should really work us so we get things […]
This from one of the strongest supporters of the war: Sen. John Warner, the former GOP chairman and influential member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is set to introduce a second resolution Monday that expresses criticism of President Bush’s call for a troop increase in Iraq, a move Bush Administration officials have scrambled to […]