Category: politics
Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Maybe - just maaayyybeee - the federal government is less than the fairest judge of Toyota, considering that it is a majority shareholder in one of Toyota's biggest competitors. Just sayin'....
I told my friends in the Libertarian Party that the tea parties would be hijacked by neocons the minute a neocon started pushing them on MSNBC. Now, the tea parties have produced three neocons to run against Ron Paul in the primaries.
I tried to tell you.
Got this one from Radley, too. He's right, more noise should have been made six months ago, when this happened. Read this language that was added by Democrats to a piece of legislation, after some anti-tax groups succeeded in having it put up to a referendum, then see if you can find what is so terribly, terribly wrong with it:
Oscar Goodman, the mayor of Las Vegas and a former defense attorney for the mob, is known for saying outrageous things. In a visit to an elementary school in 2005, for example, he told a group of fourth-graders that he would take a showgirl and a bottle of Sapphire Bombay Gin if he was stranded on a desert island.
He's also weighing a run for governor -- and is doing well in the polls.
Here are the top five Demcare bribes. Keep an eye out on bribes/offers for Democrat Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska; Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas; and Evan Bayh of Indiana. Leave comments or e-mail any new info to add to the list.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission began to lay the groundwork for a bigger federal role in the broadband business Wednesday, offering a glimpse of the hurdles the U.S. needs to overcome to improve the availability of high-speed Internet access.
Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts. And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.