Even Conservative bloggers are finding their collective hair on fire over this McCain story.
McCain Backs Plan To Pay Illegal Immigrant’s Hospital Bills
It is painfully obvious to ANYONE who has a clue and doesn’t drink the Republican party kool aid where John McCain is concerned, that the 3 candidates remaining running for President can only be described as Bad, Badder and Baddest. In John McCain’s latest poke in the eye of the base, [...]
Categories: Health Care · Illegal Immigration · McCain
Hmmm. Talk about a circle of thought…
Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants everyone to know that Guantanamo is no longer his fault. Or Bush’s fault. They’re just innocently trying to do something about a problem not of their own making. Seriously. As reported by the BBC: [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · National Security · Terrorism · Torture
It’s not just a friendly request for a conversation anymore. They’re getting tough with Mr. Rove..
KARL ROVE SUBPOENAED BY HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IN SIEGELMAN CASE
Just sent to The BRAD BLOG by John Conyers’ office… For Immediate Release: May 22, 2008 Conyers Subpoenas Karl Rove (Washington, DC)-Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) issued a subpoena to former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for testimony about the politicization of the Department of [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Politics
If you enjoy shaking your head over things in Washington, we have a truly spectacular collection of items, via TPMmuckraker. It’s really difficult to comprehend how all of this could be happening in one place.
An unnamed FBI agent has come forth to report the exhaustive interrogation tactics used against Australian detainee Mamdouh Habib at Guantanamo Bay. The agent told investigators Habib was probed in two 15-hour sessions with little reprieve in between. Besides vomiting [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
This is an interesting little bit of compassion in the Senate. Bipartisan support for helping our veterans. But, it’s not going to make a certain someone very happy…
Bush/McCain suffer major defeat in the Senate on GI Bill and domestic spending
Big loss for the Bush/McCain team today in the Senate. McCain didn’t even bother to vote. He’s apparently too busy raising money for himself: “Senate Republicans have broken with President Bush to help Democrats add help for veterans and [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Military
McCain just doesn’t know when to quit with the endorsement deals!
Another day, another crazy white pastor. Yesterday it was an anti-Semitic rant from John Hagee (John McCain’s view: I’m “glad to have his endorsement”); today it’s an anti-Islamic rant from Rod Parsley (John McCain’s view: Parsley is “a moral [...]
UPDATE: Well, he finally came around on Hagee!
McCain rejects Hagee’s endorsement.
CNN reports that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has finally rejected the support of radical pastor John Hagee. McCain’s repudiation comes as recent attention has turned to a sermon in which Hagee said that Hitler was fulfilling God’s will: “McCAIN: Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible and I repudiate them. I did [...]
Unbelievable!
Torture Loophole: ‘Water Treatment’ Versus Waterboarding
In February, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that his agency used waterboarding on three al Qaeda suspects. But revelations from a former detainee in a hearing yesterday raise questions as to whether the administration has been playing word games with its definition of “waterboarding.” [...]
Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
Following up on earlier posts on gas prices, (just scroll down. You’ll stumble upon them) who IS responsible? Big Oil? The industry is certainly profitable, but they say the federal government won’t let them drill for new oil supplies. OPEC? Certainly some responsibility lies there. Consumers? We really haven’t backed off on consumption. But, Nancy Pelosi? Come on guys…get real!
Boehner And Buddies Hope The Public Forgets Whose Energy Policy This Is
In one of the most laughable stunts ever to come out of the House Republican leadership, Minority Leader John Boehner and his minions are labeling the recent stratospheric rise in gasoline prices “the Pelosi premium.” The fumes from their oil company friends have finally gotten to them. There is no credible case to be made that Democrats in general, and House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi in particular, is responsible for the perfect [...]
If you had any doubts that the Republican National Committee was willing to go to any lengths to win the Presidential election, this should set you straight. Remember Tim Gilbert?
RNC Hiring Rove Protege To Dig Oppo Research On Obama
The Republican National Committee is hiring one of the party’s toughest oppo-researchers — former Karl Rove protege Tim Griffin, who was also at the center of the U.S. Attorney scandal — to dig into Barack Obama’s past and unearth info [...]
Categories: Obama · Politics · Republicans
Full disclosure…I’m Methodist.
Earlier this month, at the United Methodist Church’s (UMC) Quadrennial General Conference, the UMC’s governing body, voted overwhelmingly — 844 to 20 — to refer a petition to its South Central Jurisdiction. The petition urges the rejection of President Bush’s presidential library which is set to be housed at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The library [...]
Categories: George W. Bush
Perhaps, at times, it is TOO powerful.
Viral Email Threatens Obama’s Message
An “unprecedented, subterranean e-mail campaign” seeks to portray Sen. Barack Obama “as un-American, claiming that he is dangerous to mainstream America,” according to The Politico. “What began as a demonstrably false attempt to cast Obama as a Muslim has now metastasized into something far [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Now, THIS speaks of incompetence and stupidity. Another stockpile of cash that may have been misspent and wasted.
Questions are raised about levee repairs
Even after more than 22 million dollars in repairs, a levee along the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans still leaks. The repairs included driving interlocking sheets of steel 60 feet into the ground, more than three times the depth that they were before [...]
Categories: Hurricanes · Weather
You may have missed it – but it was quite the face off in the Senate Wednesday. The top dawgs of Big Oil were there, trying to explain why we’re in the mess we’re in.
Oil Execs Defend Huge Profits Before Senate
Oil executives testified before the Senate on Wednesday, defending their huge profits and high salaries, while “regular people are scrimping to pay for gasoline to go to work.” Senator Pat Leahy decided he “wanted to make it personal for the men of Big Oil.” How much money did you make last year? the Vermont Democrat asked [...]
It’s a game. John McCain knows the rules and he’s playing by them. Pay attention now. There may be something of interest here. As long as you don’t miss it in the crush of a holiday weekend.
It does make you wonder. McCain has to release his medical records. The timing is telling. John McCain has learned much from his mentor, George Bush. Release bad or ugly news on the Friday before a holiday weekend: “Senator John McCain is set to release 400 pages of medical records, including [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
It’s really becoming discouraging. Every day I wake up and there’s another bit of ugly news about the economy and life in general. Today it was another drop in home values and another jump in oil prices. Something has to “give”. Somewhere.
It was expected, but this fast? When people say oil trading is one of the most unregulated markets out there, they’re not kidding. It’s the Wild West out there and anything goes right now. Then again, McCain believes that [...]
Why have oil prices doubled, doubled again, and then nearly doubled yet again over the past six years? Hedge fund speculation? A “risk premium” due to the Iraq war? Or genuine supply restrictions caused by the declining output [...]
Categories: Economy
It’s been quite the 24 hours around here! Adleigh is now one day old. I think we’re going to like being grandparents, but it still makes me feel old! It’s going to be a challenge for them to raise her in today’s world. I hate to sound like the old guy who remembers “the good old days”, but things sure were simpler when our kids were growing up. I never thought I find myself saying that, but it’s true. Welcome to the world, little one!
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