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Bolton & Yoo, comedians

Monday, January 05, 2009 8:55 PM
A while ago , a conversation arose on Twitter about this op-ed in today's New York Times by John Bolton and John Yoo (yes, that Bolton and that Yoo), in which two of the biggest perpetrators of the " unitary executive " mythology now advocate that the
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GOP obstruction may lead to Big Three collapse

Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:55 PM
The proposed bailout of GM, Chrysler, and Ford failed in the Senate tonight. Since the Republicans would have filibustered a straight bailout of the Big Three, the Senate needed 60 votes to pass a bill. The only compromise from the GOP was offered by
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Little hope of justice on torture

Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:07 PM
Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a bipartisan report that explicitly names Donald Rumsfeld, his minions, George W. Bush, and others in his administration as the parties responsible for the use of torture as official tools of the US
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The situational ethics of Sen. Jon Kyl

Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:41 PM
Think back to the spring of 2005, just three and a half years ago, before this presidential campaign started. The Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. The Democrats in the Senate were more or less powerless to stop the GOP
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GOP Congressman speaks out against his own party

Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:35 PM
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) is finishing his final term in Congress, after losing his primary earlier this year. He's become disillusioned with his own party, and he has some less-than-charitable things to say about the GOP : We're in this bad place as
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Dance with the one that brung ya

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:50 PM
Although I'm convinced some kind of large-scale federal intervention is necessary to correct the current economic crisis, the bill that was voted down yesterday was, in my opinion, fatally flawed. It did little to address the fundamental problem of escalating
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Why Pelosi and Reid need to go

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:51 PM
Here's why Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid need to be replaced as Congressional leaders, encapsulated in a single sentence : Congressional Democrats bowed to political pressure yesterday and agreed to let the ban on offshore oil drilling expire, a decision
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Pelosi caves yet again

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:28 PM
Once again, Nancy Pelosi has demonstrated her utter lack of leadership skills by caving to the GOP; this time, it's on offshore oil drilling : House Republican Leader John Boehner on Tuesday urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call lawmakers back into
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The phantom promise of offshore drilling

Monday, July 14, 2008 10:17 PM
Today, President Bush rescinded an executive order signed by his father which affirmed the ban on offshore oil drilling (with the exception of a small area off Southern California and a specific region of the Gulf of Mexico). The move was almost entirely
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Taking the FISA fight to the next level

Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:50 PM
I've often thought that President Bush probably read " The Trial " and " 1984 " at some point and mistook them for how-to manuals. Today's signing of the FISA bill tends to support that theory. On the heels of yesterday's capitulation by the Senate on
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