Posts Tagged ‘patty-murray’

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 [...]

The health care shakedown

August 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Bernie Sanders had this to offer to the health care debate: There’s a back story to the town meeting protests. The health care industry in America is doing everything it can tostop reform. Incredibly, it has spent $130 million just in the last quarter trying to influence Congress. The Washington Post has reported that $1.4 [...]

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 [...]

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 – [...]