Republicans are still pissed over President Obama’s recessed appointment, so now they want to take action. Of course that action won’t occur until they return from their recess, which is what they are arguing they aren’t in. Sound confusing? Well let me add to that. OK – let’s let Republican Congresswoman Diane Black add to […]
One of the bigger wingnut bloggers, Dan Riehl, is out using the horrible accident that Harry Reid’s family was in to push the lie of “death panels”: Come on, Harry – do your civic duty. The nation’s broke and counting on you guy. Pull the plug and get back to work. And don’t bill us […]
The right is going after lawmakers who are not holding townhalls during the recess. I believe there is merit to this charge. We have a representative government and townhalls are a perfect opportunity to make sure that representation is well shared. However the list compiled on Hot Air seems to be rather partisan. They have […]
That’s the news catching on like wildfire this morning – that President Obama has dropped his support for a public option in the healthcare bill. Like most on our side I was at first really upset over this, but instead of starting my screams of anguish, I sat here and thought about it. When you […]
There is a silver lining to what happened today. Congress is in recess until Thursday, meaning they could pass something on Thursday, but that is not very likely. That means we got a debate Thursday night with Sarah Palin and Joe Biden and the economy will be brought up. Considering Palin’s dismal responses to Couric’s […]
Because he doesn’t get what he wants: President Bush said Friday that Congress must stay in session until it approves legislation modernizing a U.S. law governing eavesdropping on foreigners. “So far the Democrats in Congress have not drafted a bill I can sign,” Bush said at FBI headquarters, where he was meeting with counterterror and […]
Petraeus’ report is on September 15. We got the interim report this week stating that they are only “satisfactorily” on track to meet 8 of 18 benchmarks. Now check out this news: The White House said Friday that Iraq’s parliament may take the month of August off but downplayed the impact on political reconciliation efforts […]
From the White House that is. They are spinning as hard as they can on the Walter Reed fiasco. Tony Snow showed this spin during the first part of today’s presser: The problem is that this spin isn’t going to work. Basically Snow is saying they don’t want to talk about it. They are trying […]
Since Bob Ney pleaded guilty Friday, we now have a felon sitting on the United States House of Representatives. Now he has said he will resign in the future and the Republicans have vowed to vote him out, but that will not happen until after their recess, which means Ney will continue to draw a […]
So much of this week was focused on the leaked NIE and the Democrats considered it a major trump on the Republicans in the home stretch of the election season. With all of that, who could have ever imagined the tri-fecta that was given to the Democrats today? Mark Foley has been the hot story […]