This is disgusting. “No one wants to call [Gen. David Petraeus] a liar on national TV,” noted one Democratic senator, who spoke on the condition on anonymity. “The expectation is that the outside groups will do this for us.” Seeing as how I'm in the tarring-and-feathering mood. This anonymous senator should have the guts to […]
We're getting to the point where "congressman" and "crook" will be listed as synonyms in Roget's Thesaurus. This corruption spans both chambers of Congress and crosses the aisle. However there does appear to be a common thread running through all of them -- the more seniority, and more power politicians gain, the more likely they […]
James Hsu was captured in Colorado -- riding on an Amtrak train?! Does anyone know the current betting line on how much of this is ChiCom money that's being funneled into another Clinton campaign?
Social Security is a government-run Ponzi scheme. It depends on an ever-increasing number of workers to pay the retirement benefits of an ever-increasing number retirees. Like a Ponzi scheme, it works at first, but then the math starts to work against it. We'll reach that point in 2017 or thereabouts, when the amount of money […]
You'd think they would've learned it in high school civics, but the people who are sent to the Senate for confirmation to staff the executive branch are people who are expected to follow the directives of the President, not the priorities of Senators of an opposing party. Today, former Rep. Jim Nussle was confirmed 69-24 […]
Congressional Quarterly has done a service to those interested in keeping our elected officials accountable and pointing out the corrupting nature of earmarks. The House’s most outspoken critics of what they say is unnecessary military spending would secure nearly half a billion dollars in the defense appropriations bill for programs in their districts the Pentagon […]
For most of their first eight months in charge on Capitol Hill, the Democrats passed bill after resolution after bill demanding something close to an immediate retreat from Iraq. They did this knowing that President Bush would veto the bills and that he had enough Republican support to sustain those vetoes. The maneuvers were empty, […]
It takes an enormous amount of gall to be Democrat presidential hopeful John Edwards. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles. The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake […]
San Diego-area Rep. Bob "I'm a congressman, I can do whatever I want" Filner addressed the annual convention of the American Legion today. Filner, I think, stuck his foot in his mouth, but I think most are too kind to point it out. Filner advocated more mental health care for members of the military returning […]
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is getting a lot of money from a very unlikely source. One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport. Six members of […]