We have heard for months the chest beating of Darrell Issa, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Now it’s gone from chest beating to down right slander: The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight calledPresident Obama‘s administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and […]
TBogg makes a very interesting and accurate point that Nancy Pelosi has become the next Lynndie England: Due to “process” reporting we have learned that the Torture Years were not the responsibility of the Administration who demanded them, the legal counsel who found legal justification for them, the medical personnel who stood by and watched, […]
I bet old Mitch McConnell is having a shit fit now: Eight men say they either had sex with Sen. Larry Craig or were targets of sexual advances by the Idaho Republican at various times during his political career, a newspaper reported Sunday. One of the men is the former escort whose allegations disgraced the […]
Erica Werner from the AP reports this: Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did not break Senate rules in accepting free ringside seats at boxing matches from the Nevada Athletic Commission, the Ethics Committee has concluded. The committee disclosed the determination in a Dec. 7 letter to Las Vegas resident Robert Rose, who had filed […]
Bush’s biggest problem is he lives in the past. He doesn’t realize this great new thing out there called the “internets” and exactly how powerful it is. Take for example when Bush tries to change his story and then lie about what he previously said: Oops. Well I am sure that hasn’t happened before. Oh […]
This time he raises the question no other journalist has had the balls to – what did Bush do to prevent 9/11? A vital question if there is any. We have the full transcript up at Crooks and Liars. The most interesting part (and there were plenty) was when Olbermann finally calls bullshit on the […]
The Bush Administration is still working hard to get rid of leakers. The latest is their subpoena of Russell Tice, a former NSA employee who has testified to Congress about the NSA wiretapping. NSA WHISTLEBLOWER IS SUBPOENAED TO TESTIFY BEFORE FEDERAL GRAND JURY Government Begins its Witch Hunt Targeting Whistleblowers On Wednesday, July 26, Russell […]
After key members of the lunatic right’s internet force took to the binary world this weekend to launch their attack on the New York Times Travel Section for publishing an article talking about St. Michaels, Md. last week, things have gotten ugly. Glenn Greenwald has been all over this story. From their original claims that […]
I remember the night that this happened and Drudge saying she was going to be arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer. Guess they will have to look harder to find someone else now: WASHINGTON (AP) A grand jury has declined to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney in a March incident in which she admitted […]
Last night I read through Ann Coulter’s latest piece as my eyes bled. Instead of forcing the same agony upon all of you, I figured I would highlight a couple things that really got my attention: It’s pretty pathetic when a Kennedy is too drunk to drive into the Potomac. After the visibly intoxicated Rep. […]