IS THERE anything more ironic than Senator James Inhofe, after having declared Sandy victims shouldn’t get financial help in a bill that included climate change provisions, now demanding that Oklahomans in the path of the giant tornado that ripped through his state get federal help? Parsing who is deserving at a time of tragedy is [...]
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In Not Shocking News From “Sequestered” DC Electeds
Where to put the emphasis? On Republican efforts to “avoid a showdown”? Obama’s efforts to “resolve fiscal fights” by calling the “opposition”? Or Dems abandoning “strong opposition” to the “GOP spending bill”? Can anyone even pretend to be surprised at any of this? Obama being Obama. Republicans being Republicans. Democrats being Democrats. We the People [...]
Ted Cruz and Other Senate McCarthyites Ask Obama to Withdraw Hagel Nomination
“Absolutely not,” Carney told reporters at Thursday’s daily briefing when asked whether there’s any chance the Hagel nomination will be withdrawn. “Any suggestion to the contrary might have been found in the minutes of the meetings of the Friends of Hamas.” [Washington Post] FROM THE “Friends of Hamas” joke that had Republicans and other extremists [...]
Progressive Notes: Pelosi Heckled by Betrayed Liberals, DeFazio Sounds the Alarm on’12, Ending Corporate Personhood, and Other Doings
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. BREAKING NEWS: JANE HAMSHER AND DOZENS MORE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED OUTSIDE THE WHITEHOUSE PROTESTING A PROPOSED OIL PIPELINE. More here. Clip of Minority Leader Pelosi getting heckled over her debt deal vote : Minority Leader Pelosi, Rep. Barbara Lee and Rep. Raul Grijalva held a townhall [...]
John Ensign Stars in a Capitol Dome Production of ‘Stalked By A Senator’
Sen. John Ensign just wanted to keep the whole affair quiet. He gave thousands of dollars to his mistress to book hotels for their clandestine encounters. He bought cheap cellphones to communicate with her. He considered buying her Las Vegas home and tried to help her aggrieved husband’s lobbying career to make the whole matter [...]
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