Representative Wilson Falsely Claims Obama Lied… Will You Stand With Joe?

Representative Joe Wilson from South Carolina sure did cause a stink Wednesday evening.
Wilson was the guy who famously hollered, “You lie!” in the middle of the President’s speech about health care reform to the Joint Sessions of Congress Wednesday night. Obama was in the process of addressing a pesky falsehood about the health care bill, one stating that should the legislation [...]

Rep. Cynthia Davis, Hungry Kids and Marie Antoinette

Generally speaking, I don’t follow local politics too closely.
This little nugget, however, has made national news, shaming the state of Missouri, and helping to further cultivate the image of the backwards state so many people already perceive it to be.
Unfortunately, these people are not altogether wrong in their assessment, thanks in part to the recent contributions [...]

Two Cents, Nancy Pelosi and Torture

I was going to hold off a li’l while before posting my opinion on Nancy Pelosi, and whether or not she was briefed by the CIA on the Bush Administration’s use of torture.
Most people seem to have already made up their minds on the matter- even as the majority of the facts remain unknown- and [...]

Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi and Torture

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi engaged in a ”despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort” when claiming to know little about the use of waterboarding and other CIA-sanctioned “enhanced” interrogation methods.
She lied to the House of Representatives and to the American public.
That’s what Newt Gingrich says, anyway, while trying to justify his belief that the House should [...]

Pete Sessions, Socialism and Barack Obama

As big a political junkie as I am, one would think I’d be past the point of being shocked when a politician says something stupid.
I’m not.
Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX) believes Obama is both driving the stock market down and unemployment up on purpose.
He’s quoted in today’s NY Times as saying that Obama “intended to inflict damage [...]

Sessions, Specter and the Supreme Court

Things are getting really exciting on Capitol Hill.
Supreme Court Justice David Souter has recently announced his retirement, paving the way for Obama’s first Supreme Court nomination.
In a coincidental turn of events- a side plot, perhaps- Representative Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) will be taking Arlen Specter’s place as the top Republican in the Senate Judiciary committee.
All of [...]

Specter, Spectacles and Death Scenes

People really are buzzin’ about representative Arlen Specter’s switch from the GOP to the Democratic Party.
I find the whole thing exciting… though hardly surprising.
I do wonder if this most recent blow to the fledgling Republic Party will be the much needed wake-up call for hardcore Conservatives, or if they will continue to bury their heads [...]

Barack Obama, Executive Pay and a Whole Lot of B.S.

President Obama said in his recent weekly radio address that he will be presenting a new bailout spending plan soon.
Sounds good to me, though I was never really one to support these ridiculous bailouts to begin with.
What I am shocked- and quite frankly, a little pissed- to hear is that this new spending plan contains [...]

Rahm Emanuel, Ballet and a 4-to-1 Ratio

In one of his first big decisions as President-Elect, Barack Obama has asked Rahm Emanuel to be his Chief of Staff.
I’d heard of Emanuel- one can’t be as entrenched in politics as I am, and not know of him- but realized as Obama’s announcement came, that I actually know very little about the guy.
So I did a some [...]

Bailouts, Pigs, Fat Cats and the Economy

It’s official.
The bumbling b.s. bailout of the century has passed, and George Bush has signed it into law.
Members of Congress have been saying for two weeks now that the passage of this thing was imperative to saving our economy… yet they were unable to get sufficient support for it until they loaded the damn thing up [...]