Julie Myers is the head of ICE, and Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security. She is also woefully underqualified -- even Michelle Malkin said so. (No doubt the facts that she's the niece of the former Chairman of the Joint … [Read more...]
JudComm Chairman Leahy will oppose Mukasey, but Feinstein and Schumer will support
This just in from Patrick Leahy:Some issues are so critical, so fundamental to who and what we are as a nation, that we must act on our convictions -- and this is one of them. America does not torture. We do not inflict cruel, inhuman, and … [Read more...]
Kerry [update] and Kennedy will vote “no” on Mukasey
Three cheers!"Judge Mukasey's refusal to classify the barbaric practice of waterboarding as torture waves a red flag about his nomination to serve an Administration that has adhered to the Cheney doctrine on executive power and … [Read more...]
House’s SCHIP override attempt fails
Just watched it on C-Span. The vote was 273-156. A few votes switched (the vote to pass the bill was 265-159), but the House was still about a dozen votes short.Disappointing, but not unexpected. Look for a revised bill to … [Read more...]
SCHIP bill *does* require proof of eligibility as a citizen or legal resident
First, a word of warning: federal statutes in general, and statutes about programs like SCHIP in particular, are notoriously impenetrable. Much legalese ahead.OK, so what's really going on here? The part of the SCHIP bill … [Read more...]
SCHIP: it’s on
As expected, President Bush has vetoed the bipartisan SCHIP bill. The Senate has enough votes to override the veto; the House does not.At least, not yet. Word on the street is that the House leadership will wait a while before … [Read more...]
Republicans trashing Bush over SCHIP
Herewith a roundup of what some prominent conservative and moderate Republicans are saying about President Bush's position on, and threatened veto of, the SCHIP bill that Congress passed yesterday. Before we get started, let's be … [Read more...]
Bush expected to name ex-Judge Michael Mukasey as Attorney General
NYT says:President Bush has decided to nominate Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge from New York who has presided over several high-profile terrorism trials, as his next attorney general, and is expected to announce the selection … [Read more...]
Kanye West was right about Geroge W. Bush – he doesn’t care about Black people
Bill Maher hosted Bush biographer Robert Draper, author of the recently released Dead Certain, on Real Time Friday night. In this clip* Maher points out this item from Draper's book :After Bush won the Texas governorship, he said to an aide … [Read more...]
Unassailable generals
John Kerry said: I don’t like any kind of characterizations in our politics that call into question any active duty, distinguished general, ... who I think under any circumstances serves with the best interests of our country. … [Read more...]
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