For almost eight years, Cheney took the high road and maintained an honorable silence on the subject. This man couldn’t maintain a dignified, honorable silence for even six months on the policies of the Obama administration. Imagine what it must have taken for him to sustain a dignified, honorable silence for almost eight [...]
More evidence is trickling out to suggest that preventing another terrorist attack may never have been the prime motivation behind the torture the Bush-Cheney regime practiced on high-value al Qaeda detainees. That the prime motivation may have been to produce (as opposed to, for example, discover) evidence to support one of their main justifications [...]
Four years ago, the guy who currently makes the office of Senate Minority Leader a subject of widespread ridicule, Mitch McConnell, was holding forth passionately against filibusters of “any President’s judicial nominees”:
Because of the unprecedented obstruction of our Democratic colleagues, the Republican conference intends to restore the principle that, regardless of party, any President’s judicial [...]
It looks like the ticking time bomb scenario is in need of a little revision.
One Monday, Liz Cheney claimed that this is “exactly the situation my daddy these folks were in”:
So, if you knew that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had information about an imminent threat on the United States. Information that would result in the [...]
House Republicans propose to roll up their sleeves and really go to work stalling “Henry Waxman’s ambitious climate change bill” in committee. Working in their favor is the fact that the Energy and Commerce Committee has 59 members, and many Democrats on the committee are “worried about the impact of energy proposals on hometown [...]
The notion of conflict of interest seems to be going out of style. For starters, neither the New York Times nor former Attorney General John Ashcroft care very much about the concept:
You can say one thing for John Ashcroft: he’s not short on chutzpah.
In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, the former [...]
Matt already blogged last night about Senate Democrats signaling to Arlen Specter that he can vote against key Democratic positions as early and as often as he likes, but he can’t expect to usurp their privileges.
Here’s a tidbit from Politico that adds the perfect footnote to Matt’s post:
A Democratic aide said Tuesday night [...]
Last week I linked to an article about Senior Senate Democrats getting their panties in a twist over Arlen Specter being allowed to keep his Senate seniority:
Several Democrats are furious with Sen. Reid (D-Nev.) for agreeing to let Specter (Pa.) keep his seniority, accrued over more than 28 years as a GOP senator. That agreement [...]
On First Day as Democrat, Specter (Again) Bucks His Party – WaPo (4/29/09)
Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) began his first full day as a Democrat since the early 1960s at a party-switching celebration hosted by President Obama and Vice President Biden. He ended it by casting another vote against Obama, opposing his budget as too authoritarian [...]
It’s not surprising to look through my feed reader and see that 90% of the politics posts are about Arlen Specter switching parties to avoid an impossible primary. And I don’t begrudge the people their right to talk about it because it’s certainly news. It’s also entertaining to watch Republicans have to defend [...]
