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Find it odd that throughout the entire BP/Gulf Oil fiasco, not one single time that I’m aware of Obama has NOT blamed it on Bush?  He’s blamed everything else on Bush, so why not this too?  Everyone KNOWS Bush sold out to big oil.  So why not state the obvious everyone is expecting to hear? [...]

Particularly, he’s concerned that Tea Party and right-wing rhetoric will fuel the flames for domestic terrorism attacks like the one in Oklahoma City fifteen years ago. First, a history lesson. Murrah was not a reaction to some right-wing media show. It was a reaction to the Waco, Texas massacre. It was a very direct reaction. [...]

This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone I’m sure: In his defense of supporting Obamacare, Congressman Phil Hare states very assuredly he doesn’t care about the Constitution on this issue. Mainly because we’re assured of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But none of that really matters because people are going bankrupt paying [...]

Got this from a well-respected person I know via another well-respected person I know via a probably less well-respected person they know, but who has a better humor: A U.S. Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist who was badly injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of [...]

OK, so some economist said a whole bunch of people might lose their jobs.  Then, the actual numbers came in less than what might have been. Harry Reid was thrilled.  You can see the excitement in his eyes.  You can hear it in his voice: Now, this is where it gets dicey.  The immediate assumption [...]

Nancy Pelosi bitched for a decade about how unethical the Republicans were.  The Democrats were all puritanical and could do no wrong.  On a weekly basis since Nancy was put in charge of ethics of Congress, we’ve had to deal with one flap after another.  William Jefferson got the ball rolling, and it’s rolled since.  [...]

A full year into Obama‘s four year term, he’s still passing the buck: “Today’s report from C.B.O. confirms that the recession inherited from the Bush Administration continues to erode the budget’s bottom line,” said Representative John M. Spratt Jr., the Democrat of South Carolina who is chairman of the House Budget Committee. From the start [...]

Transparency is a word that wasn’t used a whole lot up until a couple of years ago.  Convinced Bush and his cronies were making all the important decisions behind closed doors, Obama started preaching about the need for transparency.   A lot of people took it to mean that if elected, Obama would open his doors [...]

OK, so here’s the beef C-Span, and a few other people have: C SPAN Health Care Letter This stems from: President Barack Obama and congressional Democratic leaders agreed Tuesday to bypass a conference committee and keep negotiations to reconcile the Senate and House health care reform bills a closed-door affair. They concluded that the House [...]

Pelosi, who has warned of “serious unrest” among House Democrats about Afghanistan, said Wednesday that she intends to live up to that vow on the upcoming supplemental bill, which will require $30 billion to $40 billion for the additional 30,000 troops. “We have to do this for the new president,” Pelosi said Wednesday, recounting her [...]