Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Post-Thanksgiving food coma = digest on a diet. ? FL-Sen : The 99th-most senior senator in the United States, George LeMieux, has been working his new colleagues on behalf of Charlie Crist. After James Inhofe endorsed Marco Rubio, LeMieux began trying to play the role of gatekeeper, urging other fellow senators to see him first before picking sides. Supposedly, LeMieux has told some of these people...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The New York Times’s November 5 “ Political Points ” podcast recited a full 30-second excerpt from Gail Collins’s Wednesday column blaming not Obama, but bad Democratic candidates, for the party’s huge losses in governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey. The paper’s chief political reporter Adam Nagourney agreed that New Jersey and Virginia weren’t...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In 2006, Rush Limbaugh accused Democrats of "redefin[ing] victory" by claiming a "moral victory" in elections they lost by small margins. However, reacting to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman's loss in New York's 23rd Congressional District, Limbaugh touted Hoffmann's "good showing" and applauded conservatives for having "kept a horrible Republican from...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
You may not think it's the big a deal to go from being the guy who's being bribed (a congressman) to the briber (a lobbyist) but it's quite a blow to the ego to be defeated and publicly displayed as a whore skirting lax laws you may have voted on yourself. When scurrilous California Republican Congressman Bill Lowery (a notorious check bouncer and bribe taker) was scared off by the less dishonest Duke...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Earlier this afternoon we looked at some of the obstacles to passage of meaningful health care reform , primarily obstacles from Big Business in the form of an entrenched culture of corruption between many members of the Senate and with the Executive Branch. But not all the opposition is about dollars and cents. The Insurance lobbyists and their Republican cronies are counting on the Blue Dogs, of...
The Humane-Rights-Agenda Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
http://tinyurl.com/yzzxu9c Immigrant Rights Groups Blast Census Plan Activists say it's unconstitutional, but some say it's needed By JACQUES SPITZER Updated 8:45 AM PDT, Sat, Oct 24, 2009 Print Email Share Buzz up! TWITTER ) no-repeat scroll 0 0; display:block; float:left; height:14px; padding-right:5px; width:70px; text-align:right; } .postToFBArticlePage span { padding-top:0px; margin-top:3px; display:block;...
Car News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Following months of debate, Congress has approved a bill that will pave the way for three-wheeled vehicle manufacturers like Aptera to qualify for funding from the Department of Energy. Next step: President Obama's desk, and the Commander-in-Chief is reportedly expected to sign the bill into law in short order. Rep. Brian Bilbray, a Republican from California who co-sponsored the bill, says: This is...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Filed under: Government/Legal Aptera 2e final design rendering - Click above to enlarge Following months of debate , Congress has approved a bill that will pave the way for three-wheeled vehicle manufacturers like Aptera to qualify for funding from the Department of Energy. Next step: President Obama's desk, and the Commander-in-Chief is reportedly expected to sign the bill into law in short order....
The Blog (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
The names of Reps. John Salazar (CO-03) and Ed Towns (NY-10) have been scrubbed from the list of congressmen serving on the host committee for J Street's inaugural conference. That brings to ten the number of congressmen, Republicans and Democrats, senators and representatives, who have bailed on J Street after learning that, contrary to their promotional materials, they are not a pro-Israel group....
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
A San Diego-based project to develop fuel from algae is expected to get $750,000 in federal funds thanks to an earmark from Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Carlsbad.
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Filed under: Legislation and Policy , Green Daily , Aptera , USA Aptera 2e final design rendering - Click above to enlarge Following months of debate , Congress has approved a bill that will pave the way for three-wheeled vehicle manufacturers like Aptera to qualify for funding from the Department of Energy. Next step: President Obama's desk, and the Commander-in-Chief is reportedly expected to sign...
www.radioleft.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
' Birther' Lawyer Gary Kreep Has Been Draining U.S. Courts Since 1990 --Posted below for convenience is the quick list of federal cases in which 'Birther' ultra-sponsor and lawyer Gary G. Kreep, of California and the "United States Justice Foundation," has either repped the (hysterical or misled) parties or filed an amicus brief. For the record, Kreep began with defensive actions, when in...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
DOBBS: Congressman Joe Wilson causing an uproar when he yelled "you lie" to President Obama in front of the joint session of Congress last week. But will the president's health care plan cover millions of illegal immigrants or not? That's the subject of tonight's "Face Off" debate. And joining me now, Congressman Anthony Weiner, Democrat of New York, who says no illegal immigrants...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
More Dispatches From Mars by digby From Foser: The Washington Independent 's David Weigel catches Politico 's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen calling Republican Rep. Brian Bilbray "a centrist Republican." Weigel explains : Bilbray was a member of the class of 1994 who lost his old House seat in 2000, then stayed in Washington as a lobbyist for the Federation for American Immigration Reform ,...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
The Editors Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) was chastised for accusing President Obama of lying when Obama told a joing session of Congress that there was no provision in the health care bill that would allow illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded health benefits. But was Wilson correct? The following letter from Reps. Brian Bilbray and Dean Heller to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader...
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