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No Sir, Not The Party of No
The Republican Party must be quite tired of being ridiculed as The Party of No. Especially when that isn’t even true at all, since they have always been The Party of “Yes, boss!” All through the time of Bush, and now in the time of whoever-the-heck-it-is-who-should-be-regarded-as-the-leader-of-the-Republican-Party, the one thing they have never wavered on is [...]
The Wall Street Reform Bill’s Prospects
It looks like the recently-watered-down version of the Wall Street reform bill now stands a good chance of passing in the Senate, when it reconvenes next week after the July 4th recess. The bill was watered down last week at the behest of Republicans Scott Brown, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, who simply couldn’t abide [...]
Gingrey Has A Dynamite Idea
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R) is a member of the House Energy Committee. As such, it behooves him to look for solutions to the ongoing BP oil spill disaster. (Especially since the Republican Party is practically in cahoots with BP.) So he’s been putting on his thinking cap. And he’s come up with a dynamite idea. [...]
Mass Media Delusion
The media seems to have pledged their allegiance to the proposition that Arlen Specter lost to Joe Sestak yesterday because of a strong voter backlash. But it wasn’t a backlash against self-admitted turncoat opportunists — who made no bones about the fact that “My change in party will enable me to be reelected” — it [...]
Rhetoric Gone Wild
Senators Jeff Merkley and Carl Levin have a post at The Huffington Post, titled “It’s Time to End Risky Gambling on Wall Street“. As best as I can make out, though: • They do not propose a system of riskless gambling to replace what we have now. • Nor have they invented the risky sure [...]
Reuters Predicts Easy Passage for Wall Street Reform Bill
To hear Reuters tell it, it’s a foregone conclusion that the Wall Street reform bill will be passed into law. The only question at this point, according to them, is whether amendments to the Senate bill will require 50 votes or 60 votes to pass: Democratic leaders had not yet determined as of late Monday [...]
Curing Bipartisanality
Just early last week, the Wall Street reform bill was innocently going about its business, perfectly secure in its bipartisanality. It wasn’t just bipartisan-curious, it was actually practicing a bipartisan lifestyle. It didn’t just include Republican ideas, Republican senators had actively participated in drafting the bill. And then along came Mitch McConnell last Tuesday — [...]
Usual Republican Lie From McConnell Elicits Unusual Reactions
In today’s Republican Party, it’s the rule more than the exception for a party leader (or what passes for one in today’s Republican Party) to make totally false public statements. This is true not just when appearing on TV, or speaking to reporters, but also when making speeches on the floor of the House or [...]
Environmental Disasters In The Time Of Bush (And Their Legacy)
Steve Benen relates a little story from Massey Energy’s murky past that could stand as the dictionary definition of the word “impunity”: Ten years ago, the Big Branch Refuse Impoundment, a giant coal-waste reservoir owned by Massey in Inez, Kentucky, sprung a leak that flooded nearby waterways with so much sludge that it was declared [...]
God Bless You All To Death!
Here’s a high-quality message from President former president George W. Bush, talking on you about Rep. Alan Grayson: Giving credit where credit is due, the video is written and performed by James Adomian. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend