Will FISA fizzle?

The clock is running… time is ticking… Evil flourishes when good people do nothing.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Speaker Nancy Pelosi
issued the following statement today on the House vote this afternoon that
rejected a 21-day extension of the Protect America Act:
“All Members of Congress fully understand and support our
responsibility to protect the American people [...]

More lip service from Congress

Fiscal responsibility? Moratorium on earmarks huh??? The Presidential candidates promise change? What makes them think they can do anything about. Seems like a pipe dream to me. More hypocrisy from Washington…
Democratic leaders have sent tens of millions of dollars to freshman lawmakers’ districts in hope of protecting the party’s newfound majority [...]

Let’s get together and support the Semper Fi Act of 2008

I was waiting on yesterday’s events before I wrote this… the City of Berkeley is not apologizing…
After a marathon session that stretched into early Wednesday, the council decided not to send the letter, saying they recognize recruiters’ right to be in Berkeley. The council said they still strongly oppose the war and the recruitment of [...]

No wonder Congress approval ratings match all time low

Let’s see… the economy is going down the johnny-flusher, foreclosures are skyrocketing, the stock market is hurting, there are problems with health care and I have a headache.  It is no wonder that the Republican President Bush and Democratic controlled Congress match all time low rankings.
However our illustrious Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. has a plan [...]

My kind of guy

McCain is taking a lot of heat and the pressure is going to be turned up even more… but who would not want a guy who does this…
McCain’s battles with colleagues have often gone beyond the ins and outs of policy, taking on a fierce personal tone that other senators do not often engage in, [...]

Congress still has not got a clue about immigration

Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the sponsor of the DREAM Act, has been quoted as saying when the immigration debate starts up in Congress “the switchboards light up and the hate starts spewing.”
This is ignorance gone to seed.  Congress cannot get it through their thick skulls that American’s do not want amnesty for illegals.  And [...]

Some in Congress have lost it

You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.
This guys brain must be misaligned with the moon. [...]

Pelosi is trying to recover from foot-in-mouth disease

From an article in today’s TheHill:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Congress cannot end the war in Iraq without President Bush’s approval.
Voters, she told Fox News Sunday, “want it to end and they had expectations that Congress could end it.”
But, she added, “You know we can’t without a presidential signature.”
That is a difference [...]

Another mixed victory for our troops

The Webb amendment to allow more home time for the troops before being redeployed was defeated yesterday. While on the one side this amendment would guarantee National Guard or Reserve troops three years at home before being redeployed it was also semi-invasive
on military control of the troops and encroachment by Congress into the President’s [...]

Bush is sinking lower and lower

This is nothing really new… Bush’s approval poll numbers sinking further and further down the drain.
President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress registered record-low approval ratings in a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday, and a new monthly index measuring the mood of Americans dipped slightly on deepening worries about the economy. Only 29 percent [...]