Archive for February 8th, 2009
All they have ever had is fear
Jesus’ General has a GREAT post on it: It all comes down to another Fear Factor
Comment Rescue: Complete Nonsense
Liz says… Coryan just announced it on cspan this morning…and yes he said, “we have republican in the house who is going to run for the Senate, that is Mike Castle of Delaware”. Now you tell me where you get your stamp it, book it, file it? Here is how the wishful thinking went down: […]
Access Congress’ Brain
Wikileaks is a site that gets original documents and makes them available for public consumption. They are the place that Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email was published. Now they have made 6,780 Congressional Research Service (CRS) documents available for you and me to review. I had done a few links in the past to a site […]
Now this is rich.
The New York Daily News is reporting that vile evil bitch Ann Coulter is under investigation by the Connecticut Elections Enforcement Commission for allegedly voting in that state while registered to vote in New York City. Yes, she is under investigation for voter fraud. Pardon me a moment.
He’s the Ass.
I missed this earlier this week. At tonight’s Congressional Correspondents Dinner, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., didn’t get the laughs he was looking for with a poke at Vice President Joe Biden. According to attendees, McCarthy joked that President Barack Obama’s selection of Biden as a veep was confirmation that Obama is, in fact, the Messiah […]
$589 a night?
What room did she stay in at Caesars? The Roman Orgy Room? Oh wow. I must apologize for giving you all that mental image of our former beloved Governor. Here is the image of the bill, courtesy of the News Journal. This bill is from a trip to Atlantic City for the Council of State […]
Gulf States Taking Lead on Clean Energy Investments
The NYT did an article almost a month ago showing how the Gulf States are looking beyond their carbon riches to thoughts of becoming a clean energy exporter: So even as President-elect Barack Obama talks about promoting green jobs as America’s route out of recession, gulf states, including the emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, are […]
On Boosting Congressional Financial Literacy
Steven Pearlstein, a business columnist for the Washington Post writes a scathing column asking for a Personal Financial Trainer for every Representative and Senator in Congress. Pearlstein isn’t concerned about overheated rhetoric — he is pointing out the real deficiencies in knowledge here, deficiencies (no matter the policy differences) are actually pretty scary. He finds […]
On How Pete Sessions Finds His Party’s Fatal Flaw
…or finds one of them, at least. Last night, the state GOP had their annual pep rally, with keynote speaker Representative Pete Sessions from Texas. According the the NJ reports, there wasn’t much remarkable about the meeting, which included the usual calls for party unity, the usual fawning over Mike Castle (with nudge nudge wink […]
Campaign Finance Issues — Michael Steele Edition
…or How The So-Called “Good News” for Republicans became the same old story. The Washington Post reports that new RNC Chair Michael Steele has a number of unresolved campaign money issues: The recent allegations outlined four specific transactions. In addition to the payment to Steele’s sister, Fabian said that the candidate used money from his […]
Day 11: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
From a LTE in the NJ: …His constituents voted nearly 2-1 for President Obama. And does anyone really believe that “significant problems in the bill” – as reported in the article – actually account for him joining his Republican colleagues in the House in a unanimous party vote? If you do, then why is Congressman […]
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