Cogito Ergo Geek (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... so listen up, troops! By now you have to be a troglodyte to be unaware of the Fort Hood Massacre. A freaked-out Psychiatrist, whose job seemed to involve helping soldiers from The Sand Box deal with their PTSS (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) found his own resolution to the dichotomy of "I am a U.S. Soldier" and I Am A Muslim"; he got a couple of guns and went out to shoot soldiers...
Objective Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
City Council Members Bought and Paid for On Fahey Street Vote. A Conflict of Interest? – Patrick McPherson Could it be possible that the vote on renaming Weber Street to Fahey Street between 10th Street and 17th Street is about more than just honoring former Mayor Mike Fahey only 150 days after he left office? Could it be possible that it is about more than just the mere suggestion of Creighton’s...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Timothy McNulty | November 9, 2009 Here's two more examples of how Republican challengers are trying to use health care votes to hammer Democratic incumbents. First up is Erie businessman Paul Huber , who plans on taking on Kathy Dahlkemper next year: "I'm deeply troubled by Rep. Dahlkemper's vote in support of Speaker Pelosi's health care bill. As a lifelong businessman who knows how to create...
2 Political Junkies (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Does "stupak" mean: "A medical condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe - unnecessarily so - back alley abortions as a result of the "Stupak Amendment" to the 2009 Health Care Reform Bill." Or is it: adj: imposing religious beliefs of one group on another, especially through legislation or financial pressure. How about: To do something ridiculous, silly, moronic,...
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In case you're wondering which Pennsylvania members of Congress supported the Pelosi Health Care Bill, which will raise taxes and put your family's current health care coverage at risk, see the list below. If you see any of the names on a ballot next May or November, vote for the other person: Robert Brady (D-PA-1) Chaka Fattah (D-PA-2) Kathy Dahlkemper (D-PA-3) Joe Sestak (D-PA-7) Patrick Murphy (D-PA-8)...
Pine River World News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Rising Military Expenditure: The Coming U.S. Budget Attack © Global Research By Shamus Cooke November 8, 2009 The United States is moving backwards...fast. State budget cuts are decimating essential health and social services; public education is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. To make matters worse,...
The Ethical Werewolf (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I'm trying to keep politics on the other blog , but occasionally big awesome things happen. And I am just in awe of this woman. She beat Social Security privatization in 2005 by refusing to concede anything to Bush. She used the John Murtha resolution to turn the Democrats into a wholeheartedly anti-Iraq-War party in 2006, over the objections of Rahm Emanuel and Steny Hoyer . This year she's gotten...
PAWaterCooler.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I realize that whole “flip-flop as a slur” hilarity has kind of waned… but it is politics, and it will continue to happen. … and these Pennsylvanians have gone against their own words: Chris Carney, Kathy Dahlkemper, Paul Kanjorski, John Murtha Says Andrew Moylan: Be sure to read through all of the quotes on the link above to see [...]
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A Courtesy to our Friends at KOS DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SLAP WOMEN BACK TO THE STONE AGE ( HR # Bill: H R 3962 ) KOS diarist LaFeminista reflects the animus the Soros-left have after the passsage of the Stupak Amendment which, nominally, will keep Obamacare from funding abortion. In truth, a Medicare type supplement insurance will be available. Anyway, to help them out, and make retribution easier,...
Government Bytes (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I wrote earlier about the list of 69 Democrats who had expressed opposition to the health care bill at some point. Well, digging through the roll call vote records, I've compiled a list of people who appear to have gone back on their earlier statements. They are... Marion Berry (AR) Leonard Boswell (IA) Dennis Cardoza (CA) Chris Carney (PA) Gerry Connolly (VA) Jim Cooper (TN) Jim Costa (CA) Jerry Costello...
Red State (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Don’t wait for orders from HQ, you know what to do. WHIPPING LIST 1. John Adler (D-NJ) 2. Jason Altmire (D-PA) 3. John Barrow (D-GA) 4. Marion Berry (D-AR) 5. John Boccieri (D-OH) 6. Dan Boren (D-OK) 7. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) 8. Allen Boyd (D-FL) 9. Bobby Bright (D-AL) 10. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) 11. Chris Carney (D-NJ) 12. Ben Chandler (D-KY) 13. Travis Childers (D-MS) 14. Gerry Connolly (D-VA)...
konagod (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This little snippet below, highlighted in red, caught my notice this morning in the New York Times. Representative John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who is chairman of the House appropriations defense subcommittee, cited $40 billion last week as a hypothetical amount for the supplemental financing request. The number represented a standard calculation of $1 billion for every 1,000 troops deployed...
Murtha Must Go!! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Murtha leads the way : While it would be wrong to tar all of those who earn their living in and around government from the Congress to the White House, Will Rogers' crack way back in the 1930s that the United States has the best legislature money can buy continues to be validated by a monotonous repetition of scandals year after year. The latest inadvertently leaked score card from the House Ethics...
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Senate approved Tara O’Toole’s nomination as Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security via voice vote last night. As we pointed out the day before, this should be of concern to anyone...
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Mike Mullen, expects the Pentagon to request emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Bush-league move that uses supplemental funding—a.k.a. outside the Pentagon’s budget—to fund the conflicts. The New York Times: The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next...
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