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Pelosi caves yet again

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:28 PM
Once again, Nancy Pelosi has demonstrated her utter lack of leadership skills by caving to the GOP; this time, it's on offshore oil drilling : House Republican Leader John Boehner on Tuesday urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call lawmakers back into
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The phantom promise of offshore drilling

Monday, July 14, 2008 10:17 PM
Today, President Bush rescinded an executive order signed by his father which affirmed the ban on offshore oil drilling (with the exception of a small area off Southern California and a specific region of the Gulf of Mexico). The move was almost entirely
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Taking the FISA fight to the next level

Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:50 PM
I've often thought that President Bush probably read " The Trial " and " 1984 " at some point and mistook them for how-to manuals. Today's signing of the FISA bill tends to support that theory. On the heels of yesterday's capitulation by the Senate on
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A silver lining?

Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:15 PM
The Senate predictably caved today and passed the FISA reform bill, which included immunity for the telecommunications companies that had conspired with intelligence agencies to spy on Americans without warrant. Bruce Afran, an attorney representing plaintiffs
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Feingold speaks on the FISA travesty

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:50 PM
In this interview with Amy Goodman , Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) promises to filibuster the horrid FISA amnesty bill when it reaches the Senate. First, he outlines the most potent objections to the bill: Sen. Russ Feingold : Well, this is a great blow
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If a general calls them war crimes ...

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:38 PM
Major General Antonio Taguba, who conducted an extensive inquiry into the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, has spoken out again on the Bush regime's lawlessness. In his preface to a new report from Physicians for Human Rights, he says this: In order for [detainees]
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GOP obstructionism and collapsing ice shelves

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 7:32 PM
Today, GOP obstructionists in the Senate filibustered a bill which would have provided tax incentives to build out renewable energy sources and which would have extended tax credits for individuals to purchase plug-in hybrid automobiles. The bill would
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Chalk one up for the Constitution

Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:10 PM
This morning, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Boumediene v. Bush , holding that Guantanamo detainees have the right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. As SCOTUSblog said: The Court, dividing 5-4, ruled that Congress had
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Bush negotiating in secret for permanent bases in Iraq

Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:40 PM
Contrary to the will of the American people, the US Congress, the Iraqi parliament , the Iraqi president, and the Iraqi people, George Bush is engaged in secret negotiations with Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki to establish fifty permanent US military
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Marsha Blackburn and other wingnuts sign off on theocracy

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:50 PM
Thirty-one members of the US House of Representatives seem to think the establishment of an American theocracy is a more urgent matter than any of the economic, military, or environmental problems we face. Those 31, including Tennessee's own resident
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The slow implosion of the GOP

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:34 PM
The Republican Party seems to be ensnared in a slow-motion downward spiral of late. Party unity on Capitol Hill has all but evaporated, the rank and file are disassociating themselves from the White House like rats from a sinking ship, and the prospects
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Veto bait

Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:27 PM
The pending House appropriations bill that would provide "emergency" funding for the continued occupation of Iraq is certain to draw a veto from the White House (and how much longer is this five-year-old occupation going to be falsely labeled an "emergency"
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Bush spins ethanol, lies about ANWR

Saturday, May 03, 2008 11:20 PM
Following a speech in Missouri yesterday, President Bush engaged in an exceedingly rare question-and-answer session with employees of the company where he was speaking. Among other topics, he repeated his threadbare spin of ethanol as a viable fuel source
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Bizarre story of FBI abusing its power

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:04 PM
The FBI has always had the ability to obtain evidence through subpoenas issued by judges. In a case tangentially related to the 2005 London bombings, an FBI agent lawfully obtained a subpoena for the seizure of certain records from a suspect at North
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GOP obstructionists block Senate action on housing crisis

Friday, February 29, 2008 10:37 AM
The professional obstructionists who constitute the GOP minority in the Senate have blocked a bill aimed at addressing part of the sub-prime mortgage crisis: The housing proposal includes billions of dollars for local communities to buy up subprime mortgages
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Some clarity on GOP scare tactics

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:20 PM
Senators Jay Rockefeller and Patrick Leahy and Congressmen Silvestre Reyes and John Conyers have an op-ed piece in tomorrow's Christian Science Monitor that calls out the White House on its fear-mongering tactics regarding warrantless surveillance : Our
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Bush's hypocrisy on earmarks

Saturday, February 09, 2008 7:29 PM
It took George Bush seven years in the White House to notice that the federal budget contains pork-barrel spending. Purely by coincidence I'm sure, it was not until after the Democrats had gained control of Congress that the president decided to focus
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Congressional Dems find more streamlined way to cave to Bush

Saturday, February 02, 2008 8:45 PM
Concerned that they cannot cave to the Bush administration fast enough, Congressional Democrats are coming up with a way to streamline the process of giving Bush whatever he wants : Speaking to reporters here Thursday, both House Majority Leader Steny
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Congressional Dems cave to Bush twice in one day

Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:30 PM
The spineless Democratic leadership of Congress has outdone itself; Pelosi and Reid caved to the Bush White House twice in one day. On the proposed emergency stimulus package, House Dems caved to the White House and struck provisions which would have
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CIA covering up more of its crimes

Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:28 PM
This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone: Former members and staffers of the 9/11 Commission have concluded that the CIA withheld videotapes of harsh interrogation sessions even after specific and "very detailed" requests about the two prisoners
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