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| Will Democrats Move On FISA Changes? |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 9:42 am |
| Tags: National Politics |
| Democrats have decided that they have to support changes requested by the White House to the FISA law in order to protect vital national-security programs, the New York Times reports. They fear leaving themselves open to charges of being weak... |
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| Erasing History At The House |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 9:53 am |
| Tags: National Politics |
| The bitter partisanship in Congress will apparently get a lot worse after some shenanigans by Democratic leadership in the House last night. According to the Politico, the Democrats have not only attempted a revote after an embarrassing loss on an... |
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| Appellate Court Upholds Congressional Privilege In Reasonable Ruling |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: National Politics |
| The DC federal appellate circuit has ruled a part of the FBI's raid on William Jefferson's Congressional offices unconstitutional. The three-judge panel ordered the FBI to return certain seized documents to Jefferson without accessing them. The Department of Justice warned... |
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| House To Investigate Itself |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 11:23 am |
| Tags: National Politics |
| Faced with a clear example of vote fraud, the House has agreed to investigate .. itself. The day after Democratic leadership in the House attempted to nullify a completed floor vote, the Majority Leader had to issue an apology and... |
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| Senate Agrees To White House FISA Changes |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 10:51 am |
| Tags: National Politics |
| The Senate voted to approve the White House-backed changes to the FISA law after failing to muster any significant support for the Democratic alternative. Sixteen Democrats joined all of the Republicans and Joe Lieberman in passing the legislation, giving the... |
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| Blue Dogs Pass FISA Changes While The YKos Plays On |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 10:14 am |
| Tags: National Politics |
| The big story this week for the blogosphere has been the YearlyKos convention, a highly visible amplification of the reach of a blog community into a political force. Presidential and Congressional candidates have spoken to the attendees, and at least... |
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| Immigration frustration |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 12:10 pm |
| Tags: Legislative Issues, National Politics, Immigration |
| immigrants to find jobs. The National Conference of State Legislatures is holding its annual meeting this week in Boston. |
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| RNC: News from National Convention |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 3:34 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, National Politics, Foolishness |
| the 168-member Republican National Committee passed a resolution urging securing America's borders against foreign nationals seeking illegal access to the U.S., the RNC defeated efforts of conservatives to withdraw support of One Vote 08. The Washington Times reporter Ralph Z. Hallow, covers the One Campaign, a project of Irish rocker, |
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| Conservatives calling on Ted Stevens to be removed |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:40 am |
| Tags: National Politics, Republicans |
| them blogs like NWR and even National Review Online's Corner who said on Tuesday that The GOP should not defend him if he is guilty. Just clean house, and you have a building conservative clarion call against Ted give me money like Murtha Stevens.Yet the calls from the left for folks like Murtha and Betsy Johnson to resign? |
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| More Caucus Of Corruption |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:26 am |
| Tags: National Politics, Democrats |
| Powerful Democrat Congressman, and poster boy for the moonbat left, Jack Murtha seems to have a new found energy with his blatant abuse of earmarks. One website says:Murtha has almost - but not quite - single-handedly created a new economy in his district, with start-up companies getting Murtha earmarks, getting contracts from other |
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| Sen. Ted Stevens; Just Go |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 8:50 am |
| Tags: National Politics |
| Funny, I had the following post ready to put up back on July 17th and just got to busy to do it. Considering republican dinosaur and Neil Goldschmidt wannabe Sen. Ted Stevens' troubles are building, I thought I would post it the way I was going to a couple of weeks ago. Seems apropos.-------- Something you will not see on any Democrat blogs, the |
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| Ethics Bill Short On Enforcement |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 10:34 am |
| Tags: National Politics |
| The Washington Post finally realizes that the new ethics bill passed by Congress has little chance of actually enforcing better standards of ethics. Their somewhat belated observation comes on page A11 of today's paper, where they note that the Democratic... |
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| The left: abetting America’s enemies with intemperate attacks on President Bush during time of war |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 11:20 am |
| Tags: National Politics |
| and I learned that international respect for America is directly proportional to America’s own respect for its president. |
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| A Split On The Left? |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 10:36 am |
| Tags: National Politics |
| The Democratic failures to end the war in Iraq and to move against the Bush administration has opened a split on the Left, according to The Hill. Calling the leftist group MoveOn a shill for the Democratic Party, antiwar and... |
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| Why Condoleezza Is More Electable Than Hillary Or Barack [Thus Spake Zuska] |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 4:15 pm |
| Tags: The Occasional Post On National Politics |
| a woman!" No, they think "national security is really important to me" and they somehow convince themselves that the other candidate, that one who just happens to be male, is better able to look after the nation's security interests. Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this |
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