The Whig (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
You would think for all the blathering from the Republicans about yesterday, you would think something had changed. But you would be wrong. Republicans talk one way, and then once the cameras are off, act in a contrary manner. Yesterday I heard bloviation about how the Republicans are the "party of freedom, of smaller government, of reform." Except they are not. Here's an example. Politico:...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
WASHINGTON -- Want to ask U.S. Rep. John Mica about the new House health care bill? Then reserve the phone lines for Nov. 3 when the Winter Park Republican fields questions about the bill in a telephone town hall that...
HIT THE BOBBY STURGELL "EJECT" BUTT (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Google News Alert for: Federal Aviation Administration FAA Says Airlines Are No Longer its ‘Customers’ AMTOnline.comFAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, who took over the agency in June, outlined a series of initiatives that address complaints by members of Congress and ... See all stories on this topic This as-it-happens Google Alert is brought to you by Google. Google News Alert for: Federal...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Representatives Ron Klein (FL-22) and John Mica (FL-7) today introduced in the House of Representatives a bill to preclude companies that conduct business in Iran from receiving U.S. government contracts. The Accountability for Business Choices in Iran Act will require companies that receive federal taxpayer funding such as stimulus spending, bailout support or contracts,...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Stoopidest congressional graphic du jour. Can you spot the GOP closet case? Only 20% of Americans now self-identify as Republicans. And those who do, are split between delusional extremists (teabaggers) and the old fashioned mainstream conservatives. What's happening in NY-23, where a deadly fight between teabagger Doug Hoffman and mainstream conservative Dede Scozzafava, is virtually guaranteeing...
Another Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Washington Fiddles as Infrastructure Crumbles | Autopia | Wired.com By Zach Rosenberg America’s infrastructure is crumbling. The Highway Trust Fund, which finances the maintenance of our congested highways, flirts with insolvency. Innovative transit plans languish. And what is the government doing about it? Not much. The 2005 transportation bill, which carries the cumbersome name Safe, Accountable,...
My Little Corner of the World (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
House Resolution 554 This bill would require Internet posting of all non-emergency bills for 72 hours before the final vote. Speaker Pelosi is blocking it from the House floor. The way to get around her block is what's called a "Discharge Petition". It discharges the bill or petition to the floor for an immediate vote. The names of members who have already signed the Discharge Petition are...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Indiana bigot Mike Pence blew the whistle on this one. A couple weeks ago we looked at how the Republican obsession with openly gay people and the Republican obsession with "czars" was degenerating into a jihad against Kevin Jennings, the Assistant Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. Bigot extraordinaire Steve King of Iowa wrote a...
MATTER MAGAZINE (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
By Michael Grabell Stimulus money for transportation projects is being spent far more slowly than expected. When the economic stimulus act passed in February, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the U.S. Department of Transportation would spend about $5 billion by the end of the fiscal year, which was Wednesday. But Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday that only...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
It’s not the Texas T-Bone, but it’s a start. Last December, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and Representative John Mica (R-FL) announced that the Federal Railroad Administration would begin accepting Expressions of Interest for the development of high-speed lines in the United States. By February, more than 80 groups, including a number of states, train operators, [...]
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Rooney is well to the right of Czar Nicholas II After Tim Mahoney, the corrupt Republican turned-quasi-Democrat who Rahm Emanuel had recruited 2 years earlier for Mark Foley's congressional seat was exposed as another sexual predator, reactionary Republican Tom Rooney took the seat (in 2008, an otherwise stellar year for Democrats). Since then Rooney has distinguished himself as the most extreme right-wing...
the transport politic (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
» French organization submits detailed proposals for 220 mph train operation. Last December, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and Representative John Mica (R-FL) announced that the Federal Railroad Administration would begin accepting Expressions of Interest for the development of high-speed lines in the United States. By February, more than 80 groups, including a number of states, [...]...
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
A Lobbying Free-for-All: Thousands of Special Interests Vie for Influence on New Transportation Bill Source: Center for Public Integrity Speaking from a lofty perch not unlike the one he occupies as ranking Republican on the House Transportation Committee, Florida Representative John Mica looked out upon a sea of familiar faces last month at a suburban Dallas [...]
FLA Politics - Front Page (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
After reading the hard copy of your hometown newspaper, should start your web-day with the Florida Progressive Coalition . Our digest and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. "Mysterious and troubling" The Tampa Tribune editorial board: "How state Republican Party insiders spend donors' dollars is generally nobody's business but the party's, but what has...
Taking Names the Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
U.S. Rep. John Mica hosted a tele-town-hall meeting last night, where he told the audience that he supported health care reform -- but not as proposed by the President. Mica said he instead favored tort reform and greater accountibility --...
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