Last night I noticed something rather interesting. Before the breaking news email alerts went out of the suspected “shoe bombing” aboard United Flight 663 the right side of the blogosphere jumped into action. It was like watching a seed turn into a tree in some cartoon where they put some sort of Acme Super Grow […]
Wingnut Confederate Yankee: Go to your Congressman’s office and scream at him in the most colorful language possible. Hang him in effigy at protests. If you’re willing to do the time for the crime, have a swing at him. (emphasis added) And the commenters are even nastier: I hove no problem targeting these scum or […]
This exchange between David Shuster and some tea bagger this afternoon on MSNBC pretty much sums up the whole problem; that the tea party refuses to take responsibility for their rhetoric. To make it even more interesting, the tea bagger goes on to blame the rash of vandalism against Democratic members of Congress on Democratic […]
Yesterday on Meet the Press John Boehner continued the same old line that President Obama was the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. He also seems to be throwing out the idea of ever working together: MR. GREGORY: Does he have a point? REP. BOEHNER: No. If, if you think about what I said, […]
A lot of people in the progressive blogosphere are shocked by the passionate disagreements going on over the uncertain fate of health care reform. I for one am not. We are dealing with an issue that will very much affect every single one of us, so people are going to take a much deeper look […]
In 2004 they supported it: When they were members of Congress, President Obama and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel strongly backed measures to legalize the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other nations. On Tuesday, the Obama administration–siding with the drug industry–thwarted a bid by a bipartisan group of Senators to add the […]
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), one of the pro-life Democrats, is dropping hints that he will oppose the Stupak amendment in the health care bill: Senator Casey has been a vocal supporter of health care reform and voted for the HELP Committee bill in July. He supports the public option to increase competition and reduce costs. […]
Wow it didn’t even take a week for this to happen: The ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee on Tuesday night accused the White House of withholding information on the Fort Hood attack. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) said administration officials delayed briefing members of Congress about the alleged gunman, raising “red flags” about what […]
I have spent the last few days working on a couple of new features for the site. Congressional Tool First off you may have noticed the new widget in the sidebar to search for members of Congress. This is a great tool to find your representatives and ways to contact them, but it doesn’t stop […]
This is a priceless move by several House Republicans yesterday: When it’s a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what’s a GOP lawmaker to do? We’ll give you one guess… Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post […]