You got to love Rush Limbaugh and his infinite wisdom: LIMBAUGH: In addition, they have reformatted the bill — they’ve made it a PDF file when they posted it. Now, for those of you that don’t use computers, basically what that means is that it cannot be keyword searched. A PDF file is essentially a […]
Everyone remembers the SCHIP debacle last year. Polls showed overwhelming support amongst Americans for the popular program that provides healthcare to children, but Republicans still killed the legislation. Well it is back up, and it looks like the Republicans will really lose out: Republicans appear to have overplayed their hand when blocking the expansion of […]
This is change, we need. Actually it isn’t as much change as it is undoing the damage of the Bush years: The Food and Drug Administration, bedeviled by a salmonella outbreak and tainted medicine from China, is likely to monitor imports and fresh produce more closely under an Obama administration. With President Bush no longer […]
Following up on what I said in my previous post, something else has come to mind. John McCain is seeing a lot of Republicans in Congress treat him like Bush. That is to say they don’t want to be seen with him. Add to that the fact McCain always talks about not being voted “miss […]
Here is a possible motive for McCain’s game I hadn’t thought of : McCain’s ploy was transparent. To counter the public’s preference for Obama’s economics over his own, he would get both of them in a room and emerge proclaiming that they had reached agreement, that they had no differences. In fact, they have very […]
The proof is in his new ad: The legislation Obama sponsored? A bill to teach children about inappropriate touching. Yes – telling kindergartners to not let their parents or dirty neighbor touch them wrong. More at HuffPo. (And of course McCain wouldn’t want legislation like this. It might hurt his friends like Mark Foley)
This is legislation we really need passed, and Waxman is considering it: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has primary jurisdiction over the executive branch, is considering legislation to eliminate Karl Rove-type advisers in future administrations. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hints broadly that such a bill could ban the use […]
Opposing legislation to give women access to the courts to counter inequalities in pay. I guess when you are married to a multi-millionaire, equal pay doesn’t mean the same.
In yet another example of politicizing terrorism in order to push political agendas, I present Attorney General Michael Mukasey (with a thanks to Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein): Criminal syndicates, and in some cases even terrorist groups, view IP crime as a lucrative business, and see it as a low-risk way to fund other activities. […]
This seems rather odd. Banks have been using devices to scan and archive checks that apparently breaks the patent of the company that invented the device. So what is the Republican answer to this? Don’t let the banks pay – let the taxpayers pay for it. That is the legislation laid out by Jeff Sessions. […]