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 [...]
April 25, 2007 – 02:20 pm
From Article 1 of House Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s Resoluton to Impeach the Vice-President: “In his conduct while Vice President of the UnitedStates, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice Presi-dent of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the [...]
From Democrats Reach Critical Stage: “In the space of 100 days of Democratic control, the House has challenged President Bush over the Iraq war, sent dozens of bills to an uncertain fate in the Senate, imposed tougher ethics rules and started reshaping the federal budget. A fractious leadership team pulled together, with each leader’s skills [...]
March 27, 2007 – 12:47 pm
From E. J. An Antiwar Tide on The Rise: “Within three weeks, the United States could face a constitutional crisis over President Bush’s war policy in Iraq. The president and his allies seem to want this fight. Yet insisting upon a confrontation will be another mistake in a long line of bad judgments about a [...]
From the NY Times’ The Must-Do List: “Today we’re offering a list — which, sadly, is hardly exhaustive — of things that need to be done to reverse the unwise and lawless policies of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.”
February 6, 2007 – 12:07 pm
From Where Congress Can Draw the Line: “War with Iran would be a catastrophe that would make us look back fondly on the minor inconvenience of being bogged down in Iraq. While the Congress flounders about what, exactly, it can do about Iraq, it can do something useful, while it still matters, in making clear [...]
February 5, 2007 – 02:01 pm
From Bush Sends $2.9 Trillion Budget to Hill: “Senator Kent Conrad, the North Dakota Democrat who heads the Senate Budget Committee, [said,] ‘The president’s budget is filled with debt and deception, disconnected from reality and continues to move America in the wrong direction.’”
January 31, 2007 – 03:49 pm
From Congress, the Constitution and War: The Limits on Presidential Power: “In giving Congress the power to declare war, the Constitution gives it authority to make decisions about a war’s scope and duration. The Founders, including James Madison, who is often called “the father of the Constitution,†fully expected Congress to use these powers to [...]
January 22, 2007 – 01:15 pm
From Confidence in Bush Leadership at All-Time Low, Poll Finds: Iraq dominates the national agenda, with 48 percent of Americans calling the war the single most important issue they want Bush and the Congress to deal with this year. No other issue rises out of single digits. The poll also finds that the public trusts [...]
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