Republican Senator Sam Brownback is introducing a resolution protesting actions by China. He is also urging Bush to not attend the Olympic opening ceremonies in Beijing. Why? Because hotels in Beijing (including foreign-owned ones) are being forced to install Chinese government software to monitor Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the Olympic games, […]
© Ruben Bolling I was cracking up laughing when Bush first said that, since oil has always been so heavily subsidized in this country. No wonder Bush’s oil company lost money.
Columnist Robert Novak has been charged in an accident involving a pedestrian. Novak, who drives a black Corvette and is known as an “aggressive” driver, sped away from the scene. Novak claims he didn’t know he hit anyone, however, a witness says: “There was a pedestrian splayed on his windshield — I don’t think there […]
In Propaganda 101, you learn a technique called “the Big Lie“. It was defined by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf as a lie so “colossal” that people believe it, because no one would suspect that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. You can probably guess where this is […]
Republicans just can’t get a break. In April, the Nevada Republican party held their state convention, but then abruptly shut it down when Ron Paul supporters were about to elect their own delegates to the national convention. The Republicans promised to reconvene a new state convention this month, but have now cancelled those plans, claiming […]
ABC news has a story about super-rich American tax cheats who got caught avoiding taxes by setting up bogus shell companies in Liechtenstein. What’s interesting to me is that the the accounts were set up for the Americans by none other than the giant Swiss bank UBS. Hmmm. UBS, where have I heard that name […]
Who is Phil Gramm? You might have heard his recent statement that America is a “nation of whiners” about the economy. He is a co-chair of McCain’s presidential campaign and arguably his main economic advisor — McCain once called Gramm his “financial guru”. So let’s look at Gramm’s economics: Gramm was responsible for the “Commodity […]
On McCain’s website, they feature this quote from him about the Iranian missile tests: It’s my understanding that this missile test was conducted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. This is the same organization that I voted to condemn as a terrorist organization when an amendment was on the floor of the United States Senate. Senator […]
On Thursday, Ted Kennedy, who is suffering from a brain tumor that needs daily treatment, flew from Boston to DC in order to cast a vote on a Medicare bill. With this one vote — the only vote he has cast since he was diagnosed on May 20 — he now has voted more often […]
First, Carly Fiorina, a top advisor to the McCain campaign, told reporters this week that it was unfair that insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control, suggesting that a McCain presidency would offer these women “a choice”. Second, reporters and women’s organizations point out that Fiorina is misrepresenting McCain’s positions, since he voted against […]
After Obama’s capitulation on FISA and retroactive immunity for phone companies that illegally tapped your phone, we have a new campaign poster for his presidential campaign: Of course, McCain didn’t even bother to vote, as usual. And then he had the nerve to trash Obama for his vote, even though McCain supported the FISA bill. […]
McCain likes to boast about his “straight talk” brand, claiming that he will answer difficult questions with straight answers, but it looks like this claim is just PR. Candidates all hold conference calls with reporters, sometimes on a daily basis. Conference calls are like press conferences, but held on the phone. But it appears that […]
The town of Scottsdale, Virginia has your typical Fourth of July parade, but here’s an interesting juxtaposition. In the first photo is challenger Tom Perriello, the democratic nominee for Congress, riding on a float pulled by a bio-diesel fueled tractor: Two floats later came the incumbent, Republican Virgil Goode, being pulled by… a Hummer. Just […]
So far, the Republicans have staged 77 filibusters during the current Senate session, already beating the previous record of 58 filibusters held during the 1999-2002 Senate term by a significant amount. So the next time you wonder why Congress can’t get anything done, you know where to look.
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