Senator Arlen Specter is the latest victim of the Republican earmarks/lobbying scandal: The Pennsylvania Republican lawmaker’s statement was in response to a USA Today report published Thursday which said Specter had succeeded 13 times...
Apparently, Dick Cheney thinks he can declassify government secrets. I’m not going to dispute that, because I don’t know the case law or the executive order he’s referring to. I have a different issue...
The term of office may be 2-3 years away, but Florida state Senators altered their leadership team for 2008. And get this, they also have a Senate President already locked up for 2011-2012. Apparently,...
So let’s see… Over the weekend, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman (sp?) called Senator Clinton an “angry” person with emotional control issues, in a bitter and personal attack on a presumptive 2008 nominee, in part...
In electing Congressman Boehner (R-OH) as Majority Leader, the House GOP may be seeking to shift attention away from Washington scandals (and the closeness of Rep. Blunt to those mired in those scandals) by...
While Bush was plathering on, Virginia Democrats stole a state Senate seat from the Republicans. Republicans still dominate the state Legislature, 57-40-3 in the House and 23-17 in the Senate. But it seems the...
Okay, so Survey USA has done a nationwide survey of approval ratings for Senators. And the results aren’t all that great for Lincoln Chafee (Rino-RI). I single him out, because his results are interesting,...
In a despicable display of selfish apathy towards a disease affecting millions of people worldwide, including whole generations of Africans, the right-wing has compared AIDS to a “flour disease”. Now, I won’t get on...