So Which Senators Didn't Want Credit Card Reform?
You've probably read that the both the House and Senate passed credit card reform legislation this week -- and by sweeping margins. The House vote was 361-64, which was impressive enough, until you compare it to the Senate, which voted 90-5.In fact the margin was so wide in the Senate, it had a lot of folks wondering who out there didn't think it was a good idea to eliminate double-cycle billing and predatory rate hikes on the most vulnerable Americans. Heck, even Sen. Tom Coburn (R-NRA) voted in favor of the bill-- albeit only after amending it to usher handguns into national parks.Well here ...
Will the Kennedy Streak in the Senate Continue?
We were getting worried there! For a while, it looked like the United State Senate might be left without a member of the vaunted Kennedy clan for the first time since 1953, when JFK was sworn in as the junior senator from Massachusetts. After all, although he is courageously battling brain cancer, it's hard to imagine that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) will be in office much longer. JFK's daughter Caroline Kennedy's bid to become a U.S. Senator from New York famously went down in flames, Ted's son Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) continues to pass up opportunities to run for the Upper Chamber, and we ...
Mitch McConnell Calls Obama "Flowery"
President Obama has been accused of being a secret Socialist, a secret Muslim, even a secret Republican. But now Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has thrown in a new charge: that Obama is a secret ... well, we'll let you decide. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday called President Obama's national security address "a big flowery campaign speech" that lacked specifics and put politics over security. OK, so McConnell was technically calling Obama's speech flowery, not the man himself. But still, words have meanings. How long will it be before we seeing leading ...
Jesus Retires From Department of Defense
Ever since George W. Bush left office, we've been noticing a dearth of tactical weapons experts at the Pentagon. For much of Bush's eight years, we were treated to war savants like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his "special" assistant Douglas Feith and Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz-- all of whom have presumably gone on to bigger and better things.But the greatest loss at Defense has to be Bush's personal favorite military tactician, Jesus Christ. Whether he was healing the sick, feeding the hungry or crafting the "shock and awe" strategy with Air Force Maj. Gen. Glen Shaffer, the Son ...
Joe Biden Deported to Bosnia
As we reported a couple of weeks ago, the White House apparently got so fed up with Vice President Joe Biden's constant verbal blunders that they decided to hustle him out of the country.Mission accomplished. Because early this morning, Biden arrived in an exotic locale where he can stay out of the limelight, relax, work on his tan ... fabulous Bosnia! Many diplomats and experts consider Bosnia the least stable part of the Balkans whose troubles could potentially slow the region's common desire to integrate into the Europe Union. U.S. officials hope Biden's Bosnia visit, ahead of trips to ...
Attempting to Rip Gays, Michael Steele Backs Into Endorsement of Single-Payer Healthcare
After a year of economists blathering that wage disparities, cheap foreign labor, and a worldwide recession were to blame for the demise of America's small businesses, RNC Chairman Michael Steele has finally cut through all the intellectual elitism and identified the real culprit:Gay marriage.Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday..."Now all of a sudden I've got someone who wasn't a spouse before, that I had no ...
SCOTUS Candidate Jennifer Granholm to Visit White House
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is going to be at the White House Tuesday, but don't get too excited!See, Granholm is just going to be there to talk auto emissions policy with President Obama. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that she is on the short list to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter.Really, the two probably won't even remember to discuss the whole Supreme Court thing, what with all the important emissions stuff they need to talk about.An administration official says the Democratic governor is coming to the White House for an unrelated event about ...
Socialists Furious At Being Compared to Democrats
The head of the leading Socialist party in the U.S. is hopping mad about the GOP's plan to rename the Democratic Party the "Democrat Socialist Party."It seems that although the Democrats have a lot of power and prestige right now, the Socialists still see them as a group to avoid at all costs. Frank Llewellyn, the national director of the Democratic Socialists of America, had this to say about the proposal:"It's objectionable because they're giving socialism a bad name by associating it with the Democrats, who are the second-most capitalist party in the world. The election of this president, ...
Michael Steele Predicts Obama Will Name Dr. Phil to the Supreme Court
Ever since David Souter announced his resignation, news reporters have been racing across Washington, trying to figure out whom President Obama will nominate to fill a soon-to-be-vacant Supreme Court seat.Apparently they should hang out at more NRA meetings. Or at least ones where RNC Chairman Michael Steele is the guest speaker... Addressing the National Rifle Association, Steele warned that "liberal Democrats could control every lever of every branch of government" if Obama picks a "young, activist, left-wing justice..."Sounds like instead of another Judge Roberts, the President is looking ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley Files His Own Twitter Entries, Thank You Very Much
Politicians have a complex relationship with the social networking fad-of-the-moment, Twitter.On the one hand you have the tech-savvy younger generation, who have used the microblogging service to do everything from launch a gubernatorial campaign (Gavin Newsom) to declare their heterosexuality (Charlie Crist).On the other hand, you have a bumbling older generation who either has no idea what Twitter is (Jim Bunning) or suddenly remembers that they invented the whole technology and enlists a staffer to "tweet" for them (John McCain).This week, Capitol Hill daily newspaper The Hill made an ...
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