Local congressman Darrell Issa (R-Vista) and Tom Davis (R) raised a ruckus last week over the possibility that the Interior Department may have covered-up some incompetence (or something more serious?) that resulted in billions of dollars in profits for oil companies. Here's the AP article. A Bloomberg version is here. From the Bloomberg version: The […]
A federal appeals court yesterday refused GOP requests to put someone other than former Rep. Tom DeLay on the ballot. The GOP lawyer: "This is completely incomparable with a viable two-party system," Bopp said. "This makes a mockery of our democratic system and denies voters a meaningful choice." Rewind 4 years and fly on over […]
The New York Times had an interesting article in its Sunday paper on Rev. Gregory A. Boyd in Minnesota. The headline: "Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock." There's a lot to the article, but as you're reading, you also have to try to sift and sort through the Times' "cosmopolitan" viewpoint -- sometimes you […]
The Supreme Court yesterday let stand the vast majority of the Tom DeLay-engineered gerrymander of Texas. The GOP gerrymander had undone a Democrat gerrymander that resulted in Texas sending a Democrat majority to the House of Representatives in a state where nearly 60 percent of voters voted Republican and every statewide office was held by […]
Yesterday a constitutional amendment that would give the Congress the power to ban flag desecration failed by a single vote. Good. Why? Because I'm lazy and it's a heck of a lot easier to spot the idiots by watching them burning the flag than it is to listen to what they're saying. Frankly, if Congress […]
Yes, the Republicans trot out the constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage out ever couple of years in order to rally their base. And if the Democrats had control of either house, you can bet your knickers that there would've been some vote on raising the minimum wage. In other words, it's politics and […]
You'll have to forgive me for not being really enthusiastic about the marriage protection amendment that's not going to make it out of the House or Senate. Yes, it's blatant politics and an effort to get the GOP based riled up. And for those of you with short memories, the Democrats did the same thing […]
As of this writing, 90.2 percent of the precincts have been counted and liberal Republican Brian Bilbray holds a 4,800 vote lead and garnered just less half of the votes cast. Republicans spent a lot of money to keep Randy "Dirty Duke" Cunningham's seat and they were successful. Exit polling isn't typically done on races […]
It looks like that may be what an endorsement from Hoystory.com can do to a candidate in a neck-and-neck race. Last month, in a fit of righteous anger at the complete and total idiocy of the Republicans in Washington, I suggested people cast their votes for Democrat Francine Busby in tomorrow's special election to serve […]
If you missed Andrew McCarthy's piece yesterday at National Review Online and reporter Byron York's piece today, then you really ought to check them out. The picture painted by the two articles is one of the House as an institution believing it is above the law. McCarthy points out that the House can either Impeach […]