A very big "miss"
The Justice Department has admitted that Eric Holder failed to tell Congress during his confirmation process that he had contributed to a legal brief which argued that the President lacks authority to hold Jose Padilla, a U.S citizen declared an “enemy combatant,” indefinitely without charge. The Justice Department has also acknowledged what is [...]
Obsession
Matt Drudge is trumpeting the fact that Senate staffers have been warned to stay away from the Drudge Report on the theory that it may be spreading computer viruses. (If the old rules apply, that is libel per se, isn’t it?) What I thought was even more entertaining was the Drudge Report’s traffic [...]
Democrats Lose $378,000 in Tainted Rangel Cash
Mark Hemingway reports:
At least 27 Democratic members of the House of Representatives have sent to charities $378,000 in campaign donations from scandal-plagued Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., since Feb. 28.
Starting last November, The Examiner’s “Dirty Money Watch” has highlighted 39 senators and representatives and asked whether they planned to keep campaign donations from Rangel.
The Examiner has [...]
Jim Bunning’s Finest Hour
Sen. Jim Bunning cut a deal with Democrats to release the
hold he had blocking a 30-day extension of unemployment benefits
and subsidized COBRA health insurance. But the impact of his
stand against more deficit spending will hang over Washington for
some time. When he said on the floor Tuesday night [...]
Obama to GOP: It’s My Way on Health Care Because I’m the F***ing President
So much for bipartisanship. When I heard our Narcissist-in-Chief say this, my first reaction was to feel embarrassed for him, my second reaction was absolute disgust both for the president himself and the Chicago politics that he’s brought to the White House.
Via Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama closed the bipartisan nationalized health care summit with a [...]
From Graham Road Elementary School to a less mature place
I suppose it’s still possible for a president to give a boffo State of the Union address and thereby boost his popularity, but much conspires against experiencing such success. The biggest headwind is the fact that, these days, Congress isn’t just the audience, it is an active participant.
The problem begins before the [...]
