Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Joe Biden, current chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and past Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has officially been chosen as the presumptive Vice Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party in 2008 as Barack Obama’s running mate. Joe Biden is known for many things. His foreign policy experience heads the list but it could [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I was very sad to read earlier today that Stephanie Tubbs Jones had passed away. Tubbs Jones died “after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by a burst aneurysm.” She was 58.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose presidential candidacy Tubbs Jones had embraced, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, recalled Tubbs Jones as “one of a kind” [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
House Republicans are looking rather absurd today after the White House rejected their call for a special session of Congress on energy:
Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) asked President Bush to convene the special session in an Aug. 1 letter. The same day, House Republicans launched an unusual protest [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Some of us think this is long overdue:
Democrats on both sides of the Capitol assailed the administration’s handling of the Justice Department yet again on Wednesday, and a House committee recommended contempt charges against Karl Rove, who was President Bush’s top political adviser.
The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines, 20 to 14, to cite [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Now that Barack Obama is back in the U.S., after his whirlwind trip to the Middle East and Europe, he’s ready to start focusing on the “top issue for American voters — the faltering U.S. economy.”
That’s welcome news, because every one I speak to from friends to business associates are all concerned with economic issues. As [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Chris Bowers makes a startling proposal about offshore oil drilling and the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, as part of a longer article published at Open Left and The Daou Report:
Let’s face it: the best political strategy Democrats have had over the past eight years is to make sure that there were always enough Democrats to capitulate [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
John McCain needs to get a grip. He’s either slipping a little or his mind is so filled with concern about his disorganized, constantly changing campaign that he can’t concentrate on the words coming out of his mouth.
Every day it seems, McCain drops out a comment that makes everyone stop for a moment in mid-stride, [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Al Gore gave an impassioned speech today in Washington, “laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming and instability from rising energy prices and declining supplies of fossil fuels.” Watch a clip from Al Gore’s speech here:
In his speech, Gore put forth a challenge to citzens and politicians in [...]
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Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s two weekend must reads on Jane Mayer’s new book, The Dark Side, The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
First check out the review by Andrew J. Bacevich, in the WaPo: Collateral Damage:
In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, documents [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The must read of the day today is this piece by Chris Hedges, in the L.A. Times: Stop the new FISA:
If the sweeping surveillance law signed by President Bush on Thursday — giving the U.S. government nearly unchecked authority to eavesdrop on the phone calls and e-mails of innocent Americans — is allowed to stand, we [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I think the most fitting thing to say following up on Stuart’s earlier piece about Nancy Pelosi on Dennis Kucinich presenting a single Article of Impeachment against George W. Bush, to the House of Representatives, is “bring it on.”
I’m one who thinks this is long overdue. Sign Kucinich’s petition here.
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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Dennis Kucinich must have jumped for joy when Nancy Pelosi commented today that she thought his impeachment resolution may see committee hearings:
Kucinich is expected to offer a “privileged resolution” this afternoon calling on the House to look at whether President Bush should be removed from office for lying to Congress and the American public when [...]
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