Posts filed under “Democrats”
Our Sometimes Non-Existent Nuclear Weapons Capability
Hugh Shelton was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Bill Clinton‘s second term. In his just published memoir, Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior he tells a strange little story about how the top-secret codes needed by the president to launch a nuclear strike went missing for months towards the end [...]
On Deficit-Financed Wars
This part of President Obama‘s Oval Office address was clearly aimed at Bush: Unfortunately, over the last decade, we’ve not done what’s necessary to shore up the foundations of our own prosperity. We spent a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people, [...]
Harry Reid and Howard Dean
Reid and Howard Dean sitting in a tree, S-M-O-K-I-N-G? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Literally Unprecedented Obstructionism
The Huffington Post headline reads: “Unemployment: Congress Has Never Before Dropped Extended Benefits With Jobless Rate So High“. Though the jobs crisis shows few signs of abating and the unemployment rate continues to hover near 10 percent, Congress allowed extended unemployment benefits to expire at the beginning of June, causing so far more than 1.2 [...]
Calling Maria Cantwell
On Friday June 25, we learned that the conference committee had finished hammering out the consensus version of the Wall Street reform bill: Nearly two years after the American financial system teetered on the verge of collapse, Congressional negotiators reached agreement early Friday morning to reconcile competing versions of the biggest overhaul of financial regulations [...]
Every Which Way They Can
Here’s the latest Republican obscenity: Senate GOP blocks jobless aid extension Senate Republicans on Thursday once again blocked legislation to reinstate long-term unemployment benefits for people who have exhausted their aid, prolonging a stalemate that has left more than a million people without federal help. With the Senate apparently paralyzed by partisan gridlock, the fate [...]
Pardon My French
Last week, the American Energy Innovation Council tried to highlight the urgency of the need to act on a radically new energy policy: On June 10, a group of technology-focused business leaders — including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, and the current or former chief executives of General Electric, [...]
Bet You Didn’t Know This
Shaun Mullen at Kiko’s House: Specter … changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat in 1965 to challenge the incumbent Democratic district attorney in Philadelphia for his first electoral victory before changing back to Republican in his Senate bids… How long will he stay a Democrat this time? Is he more likely to change [...]
Spinefullness
What is the world coming to? Now political blackmail doesn’t work the way it used to just a few months ago, when the healthcare reform bill turned into a multi-ring circus. And it doesn’t work even on Democrats, who practically had it written into their party constitution: “Thou shalt capitulate to any and all blackmail [...]
Stupakery?
At some point last night, after a Healthcare Reform celebration dinner that spanned three different establishments of fine dining, I got to reflecting on the Stupak charade. Boiled down to its essentials, here’s what Stupak did. He fabricated an issue entirely without merit, recruited a gang that couldn’t think straight, licked his pencil and wrote [...]