At a townhall in Cincinnati, Republican Congressman Steve Chabot decided that people should not be allowed to videotape the event and had a police officer seize the camera of citizens recording the public event of a public figure inside of a public building: What is even worse is the excuse given by Chabot’s spokesman: Schwartz […]
Larisa has uncovered some very disturbing posts by the right wing crazies: I was going to add this as an update to my earlier post, but thought it deserved its own post. Apparently, some glue-sniffing types are hoping that our own military will be inspired by the Honduras coup to overthrow our own president in […]
Bush on King last night: KING: So there’s nothing you’ve done in the area of treatment of prisoners that causes you any kind of pause? G. BUSH: No. No. Everything we did was — you know, it had legal — legal opinions behind it. Look, you’re sitting there, you’ve captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He’s the […]
John McCain: My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression. McCain last month: McCAIN: The fact is we had four years of failed policy. We were losing. We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of […]
And Gordon Brown isn’t too happy about it: The fact that US “extraordinary rendition” flights refuelled on a British overseas territory is “a very serious issue,” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday [SNIP] “We have just been informed by the United States of America about what actually happened. The United States has expressed regeet […]
John McCain trying to talk his way out of his “Christian President” comment: Later, McCain said, “I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the candidate best able to lead the country and defend our political values.” He added that “the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.” […]
During the House debate on the Iraq Resolution, Heather Wilson (R-NM) started following the old GOP meme that the Democrats are cutting funding to the troops. She even said that the resolution will prevent the troops from getting the necessary body armor. Steny Hoyer has had enough. Following Wilson’s remarks he came to the floor […]
Homeland Security and FEMA’s failures in Katrina are now getting another round of attention from the President. Actually he is using the failures to support his long time plan of getting “faith based” and “community initiative” programs to take a larger roll in disaster relief. He did this by executive order today: By the authority […]