With news like this hitting the Washington Post, Bush must really be hiding something: A strong bipartisan majority of the public believes President Bush should release records of meetings between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and White House staffers despite administration claims that media requests for details about those contacts amount to a “fishing expedition,” according […]
Think Progress has some great details on the White House lying about Bush’s meetings with Abramoff. Head on over and check them out. AMERICABlog has done some great checking into Osama’s ties with Republicans in defense of the Chris Matthews smear campaign against the left. Crooks and Liars has the video clip up of John […]
With all the press on thedisastrous Medicare changes, isn’t it about time for Bush to go out and talk about his “great” plans he has for Social Security? Imagine the problems the nation would be facing if we let the Republicans get their hands on that government service? We would have seniors living in the […]
The following is the text of the letter Tom Delay sent to colleagues announcing his resignation as Majority Leader (via the Associated Press) Dear Colleague: Today, I have asked Speaker Hastert to convene our conference for the purpose of electing a new majority leader, the position I have been honored to fill these past three […]
It seems like every time we hear someone say the insurgency is fizzling out then they prove to us they are still alive and well. Last week we heard this claim: Washington — Insurgents in Iraq are showing little capacity to keep up numerous and persistent attacks, a senior U.S. general in Baghdad says. At […]
Rep Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is now threatening to block the Patriot Act because of the extension: Via Raw Story: Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Frank James Sensenbrenner (R – WI) has rejected a Patriot Act compromise reached by the Senate. The Senate had agreed to extend controversial provisions of the […]
Crooks and Liars has the video up of vice-President Cheney’s comments to the AEI today. He supported opposing views while still slamming Senators who feel the country was mislead into war. Mr. Cheney should realize that those Senators are in the company of a majority of this country. He continued to say that Saddam would […]
Fred Phelps and his godhatesfags.com website has some new competition in the cyber world. The internet can be a little more at ease with proper the proper preaching’s ofgodhatesrepublicans.org website. On the welcome page you are greeted with numerous versus from the bible that address lying, stealing, war mongering, etc. The site provides a more […]
This morning, Rep. Murtha was on Meet the Press and did an excellent job at keeping the support for his resolution up. Russert questioned him on what the other Republicans have said and he was good at steering clear of making it a political showdown. Even when Russert asked Murtha about Bush lying the country […]
The Republican’s plan to divide the Democrats over the issue of pulling troops out of Iraq backfired last night. With a final vote of 403-3 defeating Duncan Hunter’s resolution of immediate withdrawal. The debate over the issue was some of the most heated I have seen in years. The Republican’s tried to maintain that the […]