So Bush is back on the lead by fear campaign. This should come as no shock to anyone but the details seem to have come to a shock for L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday he was blindsided by President Bush’s announcement of new details on a purported 2002 hijacking plot aimed at a downtown […]
Patrick Leahy asked if Gonzalez came to the conclusion that the authorization to use force gave the power to the President to authorize the taps before the authorization was passed by Congress. Gonzalez said he hadn’t come to the conclusion but would not answer if others had. The authorization for force was on September 14, […]
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 […]
Senate passed with a 90-9 vote an amendment to the defense bill which would limit torture of suspects in United States custody. This high rate of passage should send a shock to the White House, where Bush has already promised a veto. Only problem now is that Senate has enough votes to overturn Bush’s veto. […]
Tom Delay is blaming the prosecutor for his indictment today. This should come as no shock considering he has never accepted any responsibility for his actions and has continuously used his political clout to get out of trouble. Now that Mr. Delay is accusing prosecutors of being political henchmen, does that take the judges out […]
The finger pointing has begun and today Michael Brown pointed it right at the Louisiana officials. This should come as no shock as he is out to protect his new job as FEMA’s consultant into what went wrong. An interesting turn of events if being reported on Capital Buzz, which is reporting that Brown may […]
Saturday the National Hurricane Center was giving out information that Katrina would provide a devastating blow to the Gulf Coast. Sunday, the Mayor of New Orleans called for a total evacuation of the city, an extremely rare incident. Monday and hit and by Tuesday we were seeing the total devastation this storm has caused on […]
Last night on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Senator Joe Biden was the guest. Stewart asked Biden about his potential run for the White House in 2008. Biden said he is in the process of going out and seeing if he has the potential to win. This does not come as a shock since […]
Bill Frist broke away from the “good old boys†Republican Party today to say he supports stem-cell research. This turn of events have left people in shock, to say the least. This, needless to say, has become the dawn of attacks against the Senate Majority Leader. “I think a candidate that, that-umm-believes in the destruction […]
So now the standard has been lowered. Anyone breaking the law will be fired from the administration. This varies quite a bit from the comments the President made in 2003 stating that anyone involved would be fired. So why the change now? I don’t think it could be because the President found out Karl Rove […]