Posts Tagged ‘barbara-boxer’

Prejudice in the name of human rights

June 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Every week opensecrets.org highlights some group.  This week, in honor of President Obama declaring this month “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month”, opensecrets targeted the Human Rights Campaign: Among them. the Human Rights Campaign, which was founded in 1980 and boasts more than 1 million grassroots supporters, has some of the deepest pockets. During [...]

Global warming, what global warming?

November 30th, 2009 | No Comments

A few years back, we had a problem with global warming.  When it became evident the planet wasn’t warming as much as desired, the phrase became “climate change“.  The beauty of that is no matter what happens, they’ve got it covered.  If you question any change at all not being global warming, you’re in denial. [...]

Dueling climate control bills

September 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Waxman-Markey is the creme of every liberal’s crop of life control legislations.  This thing affects every single aspect of life as you know it.  Surprisingly, it’s not gotten anywhere.  “Cap and trade” has sort of become synonoums with “taxing”.  Now, I a cynic.  I think Waxman-Markey is loonie.  I have yet to have one single [...]

Fannie Mae is now an entitlement program

May 11th, 2009 | No Comments

A lot has been made over the collapse of Fannie Mae.  For a while, peeps kept insisting it was apparently a short term blip and that a huge infusion of cash would apparently make everything good.    Other peeps, like me and a few others, have argued that unless they change the rules and allow [...]

Aliens running our country ( and Google’s not too kind to Boxer )

March 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment

OK, I got this email.  I thought it was kinda funny: 1947   Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is [...]

The politics of warrantless wiretaps

August 3rd, 2007 | No Comments

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 warrantless wiretaps. Only [...]

Bush vetoes the Iraqi pullout bill ( and restores the Constitution )

May 2nd, 2007 | 4 Comments

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 just because a few loonies [...]

Expanding Stem Cell Research

April 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment

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. Fox felt differently [...]

Condi for President?

January 15th, 2007 | No Comments

Susan Estrich at Foxnews totally trashes Condi Rice. A couple of snippets: The woman who went to Capitol Hill on Thursday to defend the presidents proposed escalation of the Iraq war is not on anyones short list for anything in 2008. Grilled Rice, the on-line magazine Slate described it, in summarizing the day’s papers. Fried [...]

Pelosi’s kindler, gentler leadership – Boxer style

January 12th, 2007 | 4 Comments

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 [...]