I personally went to two of these tea parties in the Houston area and must say while most of the people were embarrassingly uninformed and ill-informed, I was treated with great respect and I became fond of a lot of these folks. That said, I have seen one event in Houston with the hateful racial […]
Archives for January 2010
GOP Oppose Independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency #p2 #politics
If the Democrats do not use this to illustrate that the GOP is categorically opposed to anything that favors the average American over corporations, they deserve to lose Congress. Senate Republicans are determined to prevent the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency because they consider it as threatening as their current arch-nemesis regulator: […]
EXCLUSIVE: Dems ‘Almost Certain’ To Bypass Conference | The New Republic #p1 #hcr #politics
Now that both the House and Senate have passed health care reform bills, all Democrats have to do is work out a compromise between the two versions. And it appears they’re not about to let the Republicans gum up the works again. According to a pair of senior Capitol Hill staffers, one from each […]
Soft on terror? Not this president #p2 #politics
Some sense from the other side. THERE IS, it seems evident, more than enough blame to go around in the botched handling of the botched Christmas bombing. Not for some Republicans. With former vice president Richard B. Cheney in the lead, they have embarked on an ugly course to use the incident to inflict maximum […]
Brit Hume To Tiger Woods: Convert To Christianity To Recover From Scandal #p2 #politics #tigerwoods
Is Hume presumptuous or what? Fox News’ Brit Hume gave Tiger Woods some personal advice Sunday morning, telling the scandal-plagued (and Buddhist) golfer to ‘turn to Christianity’ to make a full recovery. On "Fox News Sunday," Hume — the former leader of Fox News’ political reporting and host of "Special Report" who now serves as […]
Low favorables: Dems rip Rasmussen – #p1 #politics
The problem is polling can create a self fulfilling prophecy. A bad poll can become real after good policy is modified to bad policy which leads to a bad outcome. Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues […]
Dick #Cheney wrong on Barack Obama slam #p2 #politics
Vice President Cheney has been excoriating President Obama’s foreign policy approach of late, and Republican partisans reportedly sense an opportunity to portray yet another Democratic president as supposedly weak on national security in the coming months. The last week of 2009, with an attempted plane bombing in Detroit and tragic attack against CIA operatives […]
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