Cut Medicare payments and tweak Social Security. Cut defense spending by directly reducing spending and getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Raise income, corporate, and payroll taxes. These issues essentially define what […]
Shootout at the DC Corral
The independently minded political animal always wrestles with times of transition, and the changeover from the Bush to Obama regimes has been worse than most. During the Dubya years it was easy […]
Health care: filibuster the minority, keep Congress in session through the holidays if need be
by Kevin Marley This year the in the United States Senate the majority party risks long-term annihilation if it does not do everything in its power to pass health care reform complete […]
Nota Bene #94: Bear Vs. Ninja
“Overture, curtain, lights
Nota Bene #88: Pigeon Power
♫♪ If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed
An open letter to my government representatives: Don't let us down on health care reform
by Aengus Cargo Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, Senator Bennet, Senator Udall, Representative DeGette: As we all know, the nation has been alive with discourse of all […]
Oliver Willis goes apeshit on #harryreid
Quick, point your twitterers to @owillis right now. Oliver Willis has apparently had enough of Harry Reid’s cluelessness and is just going nuts on him. This is the most fun anybody has […]
Reid pulls FISA bill from Congress, backs down from Dodd and the grassroots
By Martin Bosworth The headline says it all…threatened with a filibuster and after eight hours of angry, eloquent debate on the vileness of supporting warrantless wiretapping and amnesty for lawbreaking telecom companies, […]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hates America and freedom
By Martin Bosworth Hyperbolic? Perhaps. But that’s the only conclusion I could come to after reading this morning that Reid is planning an end-run around Chris Dodd’s threat to filibuster any FISA […]
Clinton statement on NIE report is an exercise in double-dealing misdirection
As noted yesterday, a new national intelligence report has caught the Bush White House in yet another round of warmongering lies. No real surprise there. The revelation elicited a range of replies […]
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