Sleaze edition. Unable to agree on major lobbying and ethics legislation, Senate and House leaders have made plans to adopt vastly scaled-back versions of the measures as part of their rules so that lawmakers can claim that they responded to recent congressional scandals. Congress promised fast action on lobbying reforms in January, but the two …
Archives for July 2006
Oedipus Tex
This morning I spent a few wistful minutes musing about George H.W. Bush and the way that brains don’t always pass from father to kid. Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in “mission creep,” and would …
Comedy Gold
This was unintentionally funny: Down with divisiveness was the message Wednesday delivered by Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean as he told a group of Florida business leaders that Republican policies of deceit and finger-pointing are tearing American apart. Dean called President Bush “the most divisive president probably in our history.” “He’s always talking about those …
Say It Ain’t So
Michael at The Moderate Voice reports that an earthquake may be underway at the Tour de France. NOS teletekst now reports (page 668) that the Phonak team has announced that the one who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs was the winner, American Floyd Landis. He tested positive for testosteron. He tested positive for this …
Schadenfreude
Michael Stickings admits that he is taking inappropriate pleasure in the physics-defying, self-sustaining implosion that is the Katherine Harris campaign. Bad Michael. Bad me too. We should all feel very, very ashamed of ourselves.
Local Vocals
Who are the bloggers in your neighborhood? A friend just tipped me off to a great resource listing the active bloggers based in and around my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, pghbloggers.org. It has been a little bit embarrassing as a blogger to know so little about the state of Melissa Hart’s (R-PA) re-election bid or …
Irresponsible Actions, Irresponsible Rhetoric
Sometimes I wake upand hear things on the news and think I am just imagining them, but this one is true- Kofi Anna actually did accuse Israel of deliberately bombing the UN: United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan was at the centre of a diplomatic storm today after accusing Israel of deliberately bombing a UN …
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