Moonage Political Webdream

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. ��Grilled Rice,�� the on-line magazine Slate described it, in summarizing the day’s papers. Fried [...]

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 [...]