Yesterday’s big sell off wasn’t due to the recent down-grading of the U.S. credit rating. Sure it played a very minor part in it, but if you look at the markets yesterday there is something very interesting the sticks out. Investors still rushed to buy treasury bonds, which drove the 10 year interest rate below […]
Last week I posted about how minority leader John Boehner wasn’t holding any town halls. Well it appears he has now decided to change course. And just check out where: House Minority Leader John Boehner has agreed to answer questions in a town hall setting at the Voice of America Freedom Rally on Sept. 5 […]
Now that phrase has real meaning: US House Representative Wally Herger, of California’s 2nd congressional district, expressed “enthusiastic approval” of a town-hall attendee who described himself as a “proud right-wing terrorist,” newspapers in northern California report. Now if only the Democrats had the spine to exploit Herger’s sick support for a self described terrorist. Of […]
The U.K. is pissed. They are tired of U.S. lawmakers and pundits insulting them to gain political points in the health care battle, and now the U.K. is fighting back: The fractious British political classes have united in defence of the UK’s healthcare system after it has become a byword for the failings of universal, […]
This is getting very dangerous: Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) will not be hosting any town hall events this August — instead, he’s making himself available to constituents for one-on-one meetings about health care reform — and at least part of the reason is this: His offices have received threatening phone calls, including at least one […]
And we have a new definition of dumb ass – Oscar Goodman: Sin City’s mayor wants President Barack Obama to apologize for saying companies shouldn’t visit Las Vegas on the taxpayer’s dime. Oscar Goodman spoke after a regular scheduled meeting with tourism officials where he expressed concern that federal lawmakers might be discouraging travel to […]
Last night this clip showed on Countdown. It’s of a 60 year old librarian who was charged with trespassing because she carried a sign that read “McCain=Bush” to a McCain town hall meeting: She asks the question the media has been afraid to – why do the Republicans hide from the McCain=Bush analogy so much? […]
John McCain is talking about bringing back the old “Just Say No” program: John McCain went back to the future last night suggesting that an old anti-drug program should be revived to stem demand for illegal drugs. “We’re creating a demand here in the United States. We all know that,” McCain said at a town […]
Interesting argument and mostly true, but wasn’t it McCain’s party that was responsible for most of that spending? John McCain blamed overspending by the federal government in part for the nation’s economic troubles as South Carolina voters Friday received the sobering news that the state unemployment rate had hit 6.6 percent, the largest one-month increase […]
Well this is a shocker to read on a Saturday afternoon: ROVE MUST GO A national survey by pollster Mark Penn shows two-to-one sentiment that not only Rep. Tom DeLay but also top presidential adviser Karl Rove should resign from office. Interviews of 1,003 voters last Nov. 5-16, conducted for the Democratic Leadership Council, showed […]