Posts filed under “Congressional Man Date”
The Disappearance of the Filibuster
I chose this false statement as the title of my post because, while the usage of the Filibuster in Congress has reached historic levels never seen before, the reporting of its usage by the media has dramatically dwindled. To give you an example from today, James Fallows at the Atlantic explains how even “leading” political publications have [...]
Perhaps they should leave office
Politico (10/26/2011): Sen. Lindsey Graham is so embarrassed about the 9 percent approval rating — released Tuesday night in a New York Times/CBS poll — that he’s going incognito. “It’s so bad sometimes I tell people I’m a lawyer,” the South Carolina Republican told POLITICO on Wednesday. “I don’t want to be associated with a [...]
The Sky Will Fall On Our Heads. Guaranteed.
We know that all manner of dire things are going to happen in the next Congress if Republicans wrest control of the House. But what if they fail? How different would things really be? Humor me. I realize that nobody actually expects the Democrats to hold on to a majority in the House. But consider [...]
The Party Of Super-sized Sleaze
(1) The Republican Party is not only head-over-heels in bed with lobbyists that it is not legally married to, but it no longer even cares to draw a veil over who is doing what and to whom. They’ve long since figured out that there is no political downside to flaunting their unnatural relations with lobbyists. [...]
Who Says There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question?
(1) There’s stupid, and then there’s stupid. Mike Crapo, Republican senator from Idaho, has now left no doubt whatsoever how crushingly stupid he is. He wrote to the Congressional Budget Office with a question that must have perplexed him no end. Passing certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act was estimated to reduce the deficit [...]
Videotape And Lies (No Sex)
Well, well, well, well, well! The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh. Discovered in a box under a desk at the CIA, the tapes could reveal how foreign governments aided the United States in holding and interrogating suspects. And they could complicate U.S. [...]
Did Someone Accuse Ensign Of Telling The Truth?
Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston gives Nevada Senator John Ensign the treatment he so richly deserves: he jumps all over him with hobnailed boots. In a column that appeared late Saturday night, Jon skewered John over the letter John sent out last week soliciting contributions to his legal defense fund. (In a move that [...]
Constitutional Amendment? I’ve Got Your Constitutional Amendment Right Here!
If the lunatic fringe of the Republican party — and all its Republican leaders followers in Congress — can propose (and shamelessly promote for political purposes) constitutional amendments that have no hope whatsoever of actually passing into law, I don’t see why I can’t advocate one of my own. Especially when mine makes a lot [...]
Newt Gingrich’s Second Wife Tells All
Did you know that that a plausible case can be made that, as of last night, Newt Gingrich was the front-runner in the Republican 2012 presidential race? As 2012 approaches, he has raised as much money as all of his potential rivals combined and sits atop the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. If Gingrich, [...]
Pure Distilled Republican Gobbledygook!
When Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl recently declared that “you should never have to offset” the cost of a tax cut, he wasn’t quite done embarrassing himself on the subject of tax cuts and the budget deficit. Yesterday, he offered this timeless piece of helpful clarification: The second highest ranking Republican in the Senate doubled [...]