Leave it to Fox Nation to come up with the most idiotic arguments one can ever think of. Just check out this headline: Fact: Bush Had 2 Times More Coalition Partners in Iraq Than Obama Has in Libya Oh my – Bush must have been far more loved by the world than Obama! I mean […]
Colin Powell is wanting answers: Ex-secretary of state Colin Powell called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain how he was given unreliable information which proved key to the US case for invading Iraq, the Guardian reported Wednesday. Powell’s landmark speech to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, cited intelligence about Iraq leader Saddam […]
Last night’s State of the Union address by President Obama received some of the highest marks ever. One poll has 91% of the viewers approving of what the President said, while another had the approval at 84%. A vast majority of this country likes the plans the President laid out and that’s a number you […]
Rob Diamond, a Navy veteran and Fellow with the Truman National Security Project, noticed something interesting with the Republican response to the State of the Union address: Notice who is sitting directly behind McDonnell on his right side? You have an Army Staff Sergeant in full dress uniform. As Rob points out: Slight problem, you […]
This really seems like a game of politics to me: resident Barack Obama will call in his State of the Union address for a three-year freeze on spending for many domestic programs as part of his strategy to rein in the deficit, administration officials said. The proposal, which wouldn’t affect spending on national security, would […]
A grim assessment about the future of health care reform: Another senior House Democrat familiar with negotiations on the bill said no progress has been made this week on any of the key sticking points in the House and Senate bills, despite steady meetings with union leaders and the White House. “There’s no agreement. No […]
It’s looking like the health care bill may not hit the President’s desk until after the State of the Union address: The White House privately anticipates health care talks to slip into February — past President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address — and then plans to make a “very hard pivot” to […]
Image via Wikipedia It’s been over a week now since some hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit surfaced showing that researches sexed up some data; something the right is calling “climategate” and proof that global warming is a hoax. Since then the right has complained nonstop about the lack of media coverage on this […]
Ok I am impressed: Melody Barnes, Domestic Policy Council served as chief counsel to Senator Ted Kennedy on the Judiciary Committee from 1985 to 1993. Want to get an idea of how progressive she is? Read this: In January of 2007, prior to President Bush’s state of the union address, Barnes wrote this essay for […]