Red State (Free subscription) | yesterday
Actually, in this context ’same as the old boss’ would be a comfort . To me, at least, if not the folks who made such a hullabaloo over the PATRIOT Act; I’m not worried about the government abusing its authority so much as I worry about it making an utter hash of its attempt to try to use it. But of course said ‘abuse’ was not the least common election-year theme - usually...
Red State (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
RedState Morning Briefing For November 11, 2009 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
? CA-Sen, CA-Gov : A new LA Times/USC poll (conducted by GQR and POS) finds a dead heat in the GOP Senate primary: conservative Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and vapid ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina are deadlocked at 27 each (despite the fact that DeVore is almost entirely unknown, with favorables of 6/4 -- the deal is that Fiorina is, other than Ahnold, the state's only political figure with negative favorables,...
BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Last Thursday, even as lone-wolf Nidal Malik Hassan was gunning down his fellow soldiers, Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee stripped a provision from the Patriot Act which would allow tracking lone-wolf terrorists. Panel OKs revised antiterrorism law : The bill went to the full House on a 16-10 vote along party lines; Republicans cast all the "no" votes. GOP lawmakers said the legislation...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The USA Patriot Act, rushed into law by a panicky US Congress in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, gave law enforcement sweeping new powers, including broad surveillance powers to spy on innocent Americans. But it also stipulated that three of its more controversial provisions should expire at the end of next month unless reapproved by lawmakers. read more
we move to canada (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The US House of Representatives manages to pass some type of health care reform bill, but women can go to hell. Please note that 64 Democrats think this is peachy. The Stupak Amendment means that no funds coming out of the health care reform bill can be used for abortion. Since 1976 - got that? 1976! - the Hyde Amendment has prohibited federal funds from being used to pay for abortion. Look how many...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The House of Representatives is debating HR 2962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act today. In a nice touch, Representative John Dingell (MI-15) is presiding over the chamber. He was one of the architects of the original Medicare bill. President Barack Obama went to the Capitol this morning to urge House Democrats to pass the bill. The final vote is expected this evening, and most observers...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Representative Steve King (IA-05) enjoyed Thursday's "House call" rally against health care reform so much that he organized another rally at the Capitol today to "kill the bill." Unfortunately for fellow Republicans, King and several other wingnuts blew off a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. In their absence, [...]
Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
With Senator Jim Bunning (R) retiring after this present term, the Republican primary and general election in Kentucky should be quite interesting. With the Secretary of State, Trey Grayson and the son of Congressman Ron Paul, Dr. Rand Paul going at it for the Republican nomination, not only will the Republican candidate be selected, but the Republican party could once again be defined. Republican...
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
On the one hand it seems funny that a bunch of GOP Reps. would blow off a vote to strengthen the Patriot Act so they could hang out and speak at Michele Bachmann's Capitol Hill tea party event. On the...
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Several Republican members, including our own Trent Franks, skipped out on a House Judiciary Committee meeting yesterday to attend the “Superbowl of Freedom!” This meant that several Republican amendments to strengthen the PATRIOT act failed. TPM has the details. Heck, I was not all that enthused about these amendments anyway, but these same guys have been [...]
VB Dems (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Rep. Randy Forbes missed key votes in the House Judiciary committee on Republican-sponsored amendments to the reauthorization of the Patriot Act so he could pander to the Tea Party rally against health care reform.
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Several GOP lawmakers seem to have blown off House Judiciary committee votes on the Patriot Act in favor of toasting Tea Partiers at Michelle Bachmann's rally against health care reform on Capitol Hill yesterday. Reps. Steve King of Iowa, Trent...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off close votes on the Patriot Act to attend Michele Bachmann's Tea Party rally against health-care reform.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The House Judiciary Committee has voted to remove an anti-terrorism tool from the USA Patriot Act.
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paisano1 | 02/10/2009
When the dust from the departing helicopter finally settled, America realized that the old “shrubs” of the last 8 years had been replaced with the seeds of new growth opportunities. Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner will most certainly review the current state of affairs and enact some significant new enhancements.
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