November 11, 2007 – 02:06 pm
From Frank Rich’s column, The Coup at Home: “So what if America’s chief law enforcement official won’t say that waterboarding is illegal? A state of emergency is a state of emergency. You’re either willing to sacrifice principles to head off the next ticking bomb, or you’re with the terrorists. Constitutional corners were cut in Washington [...]
November 8, 2007 – 03:59 pm
From The Brad Blog’s post, Game of Chicken: Republicans Vote AGAINST Tabling Resolution to Impeach Dick Cheney: “Still trying to unravel what specifically happened today on the floor of the U.S. House, where Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) used a “privileged resolution” to try and force a vote on his measure to begin Impeachment proceedings of [...]
September 27, 2007 – 10:03 am
From Think Progress’ BREAKING: Lieberman-Kyl’s Iran amendment passes: “By a vote of 76-22, the Senate passed the Lieberman-Kyl amendment, which threatens to ‘combat, contain and [stop]‘ Iran via ‘military instruments.’ Sen. Jim Webb D-VA called the amendment ‘Cheney’s fondest pipe dream’ and said it could ‘read as a backdoor method of gaining Congressional validation for [...]
September 24, 2007 – 12:25 pm
From Slate’s Why isn’t Congress asking tough questions about Pentagon spending?: “The [proposed] military budget—not including any money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—totals $500 billion. This is roughly equal to the military budgets of all the rest of the world’s nations combined. Adjusting for inflation, it is larger than the U.S. military budget [...]
September 4, 2007 – 02:16 pm
From the NY Tmes Op-Ed, America’s Toe-Tapping Menace: “What is shocking about Senator Larry Craig’s bathroom arrest is not what he may have been doing tapping his shoe in that stall, but that Minnesotans are still paying policemen to tap back.” [A take on the Craig scandal that didn't even occur to me, which is [...]
From Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War: “Members of Congress should not be intimidated into thinking that they are overstepping their constitutional bounds. If the founders were looking on now, it is not Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who would strike them as out of line, but George W. Bush, [...]
The video edition!
Greg Pallast and Robert F. Kennedy Explain The Attorney Scandal: It’s not about the attorneys. It’s about the elections (see this interview with Pallast as well).
Bird Poops On Bush During Press-Conference: No comment.
Olberman’s ‘Special Comment’ on the Democrats’ Iraq Compromise: “The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in [...]
Why Bush Hasn’t Been Impeached: “There’s a deeper reason why the popular impeachment movement has never taken off — and it has to do not with Bush but with the American people. Bush’s warmongering spoke to something deep in our national psyche. The emotional force behind America’s support for the Iraq war, the molten core [...]
Bloomberg Proposes Energy Efficient Taxi Fleet: “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced today a plan to replace [New York City's] entire yellow cab fleet with environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles in the next five years. ‘There’s an awful lot of taxicabs on the streets of New York City obviously, so it makes a real big difference,†Mayor [...]
From the “Fluid Imagination Approves This Message” Department: Edwards Ads Take Aim At Veto: “Former senator John Edwards is launching the first television ads for his presidential campaign to coincide with President Bush’s veto of the Iraq funding bill. The ad, which will run in the D.C. media market, is aimed at sending a message [...]
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