Tag: senate armed services committee

It’s about time. Now we really get to hear the fear mongering from the hate-filled right.

McCain talks about Obama missing stuff, well look here: It turns out that presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain has attended even fewer Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years than Obama’s one. Which is a nice way of saying, McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, has attended zero […]

This from one of the strongest supporters of the war: Sen. John Warner, the former GOP chairman and influential member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is set to introduce a second resolution Monday that expresses criticism of President Bush’s call for a troop increase in Iraq, a move Bush Administration officials have scrambled to […]

This is from today’s confirmation hearings for Gates: Robert Gates, U.S. President George W. Bush’s choice to take over the Pentagon, said on Tuesday America was not winning in Iraq and warned the Middle East could explode into violence. Appearing at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gates said Bush wanted him […]

I am really beginning to think that the Foley scandal is the GOPs campaign tactic. They want to keep the story out front. Here is my reasoning for this. 1. More top Republican aides keep coming forward and throwing new monkey wrenches in the story. Just today another top aide to Denny Hastert has come […]

The Republicans are working harder to save their own asses this November, and that includes eating their own: U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis has joined the growing chorus of those who believe Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be out of a job. “I told my husband that when (Sen.) Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) came out and […]

Earlier today during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hilary Clinton grilled Rumsfeld. Here is the exchange: (h/t crooks and liars) Now the post-morteum of that exchange has lead to Hilary calling for the resignation of Rumsfeld: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, hours after […]

Is it any wonder why each of these people face criticisms from their own parties? Two summers ago, on a Congressional trip to Estonia, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting that the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest. Delighted, the leader of the delegation, Senator […]

This is how the Bush administration thinks of America. They believe no American has the right to freedom anymore. U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill. A 32-page […]

You know it is bad for McCain when you got NewsMax going after him with this little piece: McCain’s Out-of-Control Anger: Does He Have the Temperament to Be President? Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is considered a front-runner for the 2008 race, but does McCain have the temperament to be president? As portrayed by the mainstream […]