Posted by Moonage on 25 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Idiot of the day
According to Congressional Quarterly, the House is on its way to passing an Alternative Minimum Tax patch to keep things the way they are right now. Apparently the Republicans, who initially raised the limits, support it, the Democrats want those exemptions gone. That’s good news to me. According to the Democrats over the last few [...]
Posted by Moonage on 12 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Legislative Process, National Politics, National Security
Here’s the news:
House Democrats on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush’s veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects.
Good.
First of all, I don’t like the idea of locally politically motivated people determining national defense issues. War is not a feel-good endeavor. It’s [...]
Posted by Moonage on 28 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Ethics
I’m not really a member of the porkbusters’ club. I don’t agree with a lot of what some people define as pork. Using a very narrowly defined criteria that automatically defines something as waste doesn’t work. I’ve pointed that out here several times. However, every now and then, some things just scream pork. Take this [...]
Posted by Moonage on 13 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Fed Policy
David Bernstein over at Volokh talks of an anecdote regarding earmarks. Basically a guy working for a defense contractor is hired to do nothing but spend money regardless of whether the product works or not. I have heard several stories like this over the years. Quite frankly, have done it to some degree with other [...]
Posted by Moonage on 12 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Ethics, Fed Policy, Government
Got this from Citizens Against Government Waste:
Dear Representative,
The new House leadership promised to bring to Washington, the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. The recent announcement by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wisc.) that earmarks will only appear in conference reports, and not in committee bills where they would be [...]
Posted by Moonage on 04 May 2007 | Tagged as: Energy Policy, Fed Policy, Government, Idiot of the day, National Debt, National Politics, National Security, Politics
Here’s their message:
Letter to House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture
Dear Member,
Tomorrow you will have a hearing on the nations current rural broadband programs. The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is responsible for the Rural Broadband Loan Program, which subsidizes broadband service in rural areas. RUS has spent more [...]
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