Posts Tagged ‘joe-lieberman’

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 [...]

Muddling the party lines

September 3rd, 2008 | 2 Comments

In the past, and sometimes nowadays, I have pretty much tired of political parties.  We’re in the 21st century.  The tool necessary to get the word out in the 18th century just isn’t necessary anymore.  Never has party unity and loyalty been any more muddled than this year. Last night, longtime Democrat, and one-tome Democrat [...]

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 [...]

That anti-incumbency thing

August 17th, 2006 | No Comments

A lot has been made of the anti-incumbency “trend” gripping the US right now. IMO, this is just wishful thinking by hard-core Democrats that would justify the fact that their party really has no agenda other than whining about Bush. So far, the tally’s looking pretty ugly for that argument. The ultimate flame-out in my [...]

How close do you need to be to the border to feel you KNOW the border problems?

May 18th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Reading from Powerline, here’s the list of who voted AGAINST the border wall: Daniel Akaka Jeff Bingaman Maria Cantwell Chris Dodd Richard Durbin Russ Feingold Daniel Inouye Jim Jeffords Ted Kennedy Frank Lautenberg Robert Menendez Joe Lieberman Patty Murray Barak Obama Jack Reed Paul Sarbanes Let’s look at this another way, shall we? Hawaii – [...]