This brings a huge smile to my face: President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning – but he also left no doubt about who’s in charge of these negotiations. “I won,” Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation. Apparently the Republicans […]
Last night Bush gave his farewell address and during it he gave himself an awful lot of pats on the back. Here’s one part that really got me: A new Medicare prescription drug benefit is bringing peace of mind to seniors and the disabled. Really? Someone should have told the seniors and disabled about this […]
Paul Krugman does a hell of a job dissecting the Republican party’s failures and where it has left them. One part of his latest column that really sticks out is this: The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party […]
There’s a lot of outrage right now in the blogosphere over Rick Warren being tapped to give the invocation at Inauguration Day. Most of the blame seems to be lying on Obama, so I think it is time to look into some not so well known facts. The actual Inauguration events are held on the […]
This is amazing. Here is a picture of the line to vote yesterday in my home county of Butler County, Ohio. That line was over two hours long and it has prompted officials to open early voting today (Sunday). To give you an idea of Butler County, it’s population is around 350,000. There aren’t any […]
John Boehner wants Bush to cut off all federal funding to ACORN Boehner said his office had determined that ACORN had received more than $31 million in direct federal funding since 1998. He said the group had likely received far more indirectly through federal block grants to states and localities. “Immediate action is necessary to […]
That is exactly the problem. All parties have basically agreed on an agreement – Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans, The White House and House Democrats. The ones not on board? House Republicans. Then to show how little they understand the economy, or how little they care about the American people, we have this little gem: According […]
The FTC has finally done something I can really appreciate: Specifically, the FTC changed its venerable Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to prohibit, as of Sept. 2009, telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, unless a consumer has agreed to accept such calls from a given caller/seller. Between now and 2009, telemarketers must provide an obvious, easy […]
(courtesy of Huffington Post) Really? If Obama or any other Democrat was doing that Boehner would be leading the “America hating” rhetoric against them. This guy is a disgrace to Congress, and to my own district. More at the Huffington Post.
The auditor of my county, Kay Rogers, pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges today and faces up to 33 years in prison. I wonder what John Boehner has to say about this since he endorsed her in 2004?