Great List! 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress from The Progress Report Issue 11/07/2006, by Judd Legum, Faiz Shakir, Nico Pitney, Amanda Terkel and Payson Schwin We need a new Congress — here’s why: 1. Congress set a record for the fewest number of days worked — 218 between the House and Senate combined. [Link] 2. The Senate voted down a measure that urged the administration to start a phased redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq by the…
When I first saw the headline “Midnight Rider Terminates Iraq Reconstruction Watchdog,” I had no idea what it meant. Sheesh. The things that make you click. Midnight Rider? On a horse, a motorcycle? Does he have wings? A cape? Terminates? Kills, you mean? Or is this something to do with robots? Iraq Reconstruction Watchdog? What breed is that? Is it allowed in the green zone? See what I mean? I had to click just to see what it was. (Did…
What will it take for blue-collar, middle-to-lower suburbia, struggling rural, and working poor to understand that they do not benefit from the policies and aims of this administration? I do not understand how this administration has been able to mislead demographics like NASCAR fans and Southern Baptists into the ranks of the supporters. As interest rates and prices rise, recognition is growing. Here’s another piece of sneaky legislation: Frist has proposed holding a vote to see if estate tax cuts…
Bush finally decided to veto something after six years: Stem cell research – a bill that even this Congress passed in both Houses. “Now that’s something to save yer virgin veto for! All the people who might benefit from the research – well, they don’t matter so much. Those are future people – they don’t hardly count, not like those itty bitty blobs of cells so dear to the heart of that God-guy who’s gonna kill all you damn Liberals…
Republican Pete Hoekstra, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, has criticized Bush for hiding more surveillance programs from Congressional oversight. The NY Times has published his criticism of Bush on this matter. On Fox News Sunday, Hoekstra said that a whistleblower came to him with several more spying operations that were in danger of being abused without oversight. Wait… several more?? Hoekstra: …this is actually a case where the whistleblower process was working appropriately. Some people within the intelligence community…
We are an optimistic nation, a hopeful nation. Whatever our politics, we hope that our political and corporate leaders value our lives. This is a wonderful thing about America. But it does leave us somewhat open to manipulation, deceit, and betrayal. I think this Administration is disastrous to us in ways that are have been sufficiently transparent for some time but that many people don’t want to see or believe. Fellow Americans, I do believe that more of us are…