Posted by Moonage on 03 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: National Security
Not too terribly long ago, we had a major todo over warrantless wiretaps. First there was a lot of rhetoric circling around this “abuse of the Constitution”. In March, 2006, Russ Feingold decided to make it political. He offered a bill to the Senate to censure the President over the use of [...]
Posted by Moonage on 02 May 2007 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Legislative Process, National Security, Political Correctness, Politics, Polls
Yesterday Bush vetoed the Iraqi pullout bill. In that bill, it had emergency spending for the military as well. That was both expected politically, and I expected it for bigger reasons. Spending will be done one way or another until a proper funding bill is presented. The war won’t stop [...]
Posted by Moonage on 13 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Legislative Process
Yesterday the Senate passed a bill expanding stem cell research. That could be a big deal. I’m not all that excited as a ton of this research is already being done in the private sector where the long arm of federal restrictions and red tape don’t apply. However, people like Michael J. [...]
Posted by Moonage on 15 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, The Media
Susan Estrich at Foxnews totally trashes Condi Rice. A couple of snippets:
The woman who went to Capitol Hill on Thursday to defend the president€™s proposed escalation of the Iraq war is not on anyone€™s short list for anything in 2008.
€śGrilled Rice,€ť the on-line magazine Slate described it, in summarizing the day’s papers. Fried Rice [...]
Posted by Moonage on 12 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Ethics
Condoleeza Rice appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday to give them an update on the Iraqi “surge”. Among the many attacks she had to endure was this one from Barbara Boxer:
“You’re not going to pay a particular price,” she told Rice, because the secretary has no “immediate family” at risk.
Foxnews gave Boxer [...]
Posted by Moonage on 23 May 2006 | Tagged as: Ethics
Milberg, Weiss, Bershad & Schulman has been indicted. I wrote an article on this August 17, 2005. There is nothing really new about what’s going on other than the indictment itself. As I noted previously, this firm donated millions to almost exclusively Democrats up until that point. Now, here are the [...]
Posted by Moonage on 25 Jan 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics
When I first saw this reference, I thought it was a parody. I honestly did. When I found out she was serious, I seriously laughed out loud at work. This is just precious:
Sen. Barbara Boxer says she is the real victim of last week’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, yet continued yesterday [...]
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