Has to be. Probably near the clause that stipulates funding PBS as an enumerated power.
The Obama administration has begun serious talks about how it can change compensation practices across the financial-services industry, including at companies that did not receive federal bailout money, according to people familiar with the matter.
The initiative, which is in its early [...]
I submit without comment. I’m just not up to it today…
In Gov. Deval Patrick’s Massachusetts, if you’re on the dole, you may be eligible to get a free car. So much for the budget Armageddon they keep talking about at the State House.
Let the taxpayers worry about those billion-dollar deficits. If you’re on welfare, come [...]
Via Hot Air »House gets unusual raise.
The House wants to increase Members’ office budgets next fiscal year by almost 15 percent, partly because 2010 is an election year and lawmakers anticipate a surge in franked mail.
In a recently released budget request, the House Chief Administrative Officer asked appropriators to raise the Members’ Representational Allowances — [...]
The following draft Constitutional Amendment is making the rounds on the ‘net. While there are some areas that need work (Amendment IV bothers me), I believe this really could by our last, best hope at recovering the nation our Founders built for us. The new Tea Party movement would do well to adopt this as [...]
While I’m utterly disgusted with the way Bush is handling the war, I’m not giving up on the concept of engaging militant Islam aggressively. The lesson of Iraq, to me, is NOT to go into a 1970s post-Vietnam navel-gazing huddle.
I am still 100% behind the invasion of Iraq, even if it has been botched. I [...]
While I don’t agree with the premise, I have to admit this is a clever approach.
Under the initiative, marriage would be limited to men and women who are able to have children. Couples would be required to prove they can have children in order to get a marriage license, and if they did not have [...]
I’ve been losing my respect for Bush pretty quickly over the last six months or so. I’ve been mentally drafting post after post, slamming him for a litany of things, but frankly, I just haven’t had the energy to write them out. My blogging absence is primarily a result of utter disgust with [...]
Mrs. Clinton lets the mask slip for a moment.
Let’s see if she corrects her remarks and claims she mis-spoke.
I’m guessing she’s perfectly comfortable with the idea of government seizing profits on a whim.
‘Okinawa’ John fails in his bid to become the #2 Democrat in the House. While I regret losing years worth of blogging material, I still would like to thank the Democrats for being sane. Now can you work on that Alcee Hastings thing?
UPDATE – So, what does this mean for Pelosi? She [...]
Our favorite McGovernite nutball, Denis Kucinich (D – CLEVELAND) pipes up with some squishy idealism today.
“I want to say that there’s one solution here, and it’s not to engage in a debate with the President, who has taken us down a path of disaster in Iraq, but it’s for Congress to assume the full power [...]
The Democrats are holding their elections for House leadership positions tomorrow, and John Murtha seems to be the front-runner for the Majority Leader slot. I thought it would be a good time to post this little nugget from the past, from June of this year.
Okinawa is 4,900 miles from Baghdad, straight line…which means we [...]
There are forty-nine Republican Senators, and this is the best they can do?
Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election to the chamber’s No. 2 GOP post Wednesday.
Trent Lott?! The man who killed the amendment to introduce transparency [...]
Chafee, now that he has safely lost his seat and can speak truthfully, doesn’t want to be a Republican anymore.
“I haven’t made any decisions. I just haven’t even thought about where my place is,” Chafee said at a news conference. When pressed on whether his comments indicated he might leave the GOP, he replied: “That’s [...]
Fascinating to see what passes for news in Africa.
In typical “domestic abuse” fashion, President of the United States, George W. Bush, has already instilled fear in Nancy Pelosi, and she has promised not to impeach Bush.
What CIA facts he has on Pelosi will never be known, but this is the Ruling Right Mentality still [...]
Well, this looks like backwards thinking.
George McGovern, the former senator and Democratic presidential candidate, said Thursday that he will meet with more than 60 members of Congress next week to recommend a strategy to remove U.S. troops from Iraq by June.
If Democrats don’t take steps to end the war in Iraq soon, they won’t [...]
Lincoln Chafee, spineless to the end.
But Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who was defeated in this week’s election, said he would block Bolton’s nomination.
Chafee, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters that he did not believe Bolton’s nomination would move forward without his support.
“The American people have spoken out against the president’s agenda on [...]
We won’t know what Pelosi will do until she actually does it, but we’re starting to get an idea of how she’s going to move forward.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi plans to sideline colleagues who are hawkish on national security in the Democratic leadership in the House.
Democratic Party sources said as House Speaker, Ms. Pelosi plans to [...]
Disclaimer – This post is not a lame attempt to spin the loss as something it isn’t. The GOP deserved to get thumped. The key now is to learn why, and I think the reason is obvious. End disclaimer.
I’ve been spelunking through the voting data and am noting some interesting things.
First, let’s [...]
So, there we have it. Democrats now control the House, and as of this writing, it looks likely they’ll pick up enough seats to give them a 51-49 margin in the Senate. (Let’s pause right now an consider the power of Joe Lieberman – assaulted by his own party, chased out by the [...]
In this day and age, political debates are like World Class chess. Chess junkies are excited over the most marginal of advantages, while ordinary people don’t understand all the fuss since the combatants usually run out a string of draws before anything interesting happens.
Occasionally, you get something like this, where even the most casual of [...]
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