Justice for Scooter

Now that Scooter’s jail sentence has been commuted, we can all see the deep respect this Administration has for our system of justice. It doesn’t take a great deal of political acumen to understand what happened here. My mother, about the least guileful or politically cynical person you could imagine, told me that it was … Read more

Gabrielle Giffords at Drinking Liberally on 7/5/7

I gotta say I was somewhat surprised when Gabbi’s office contacted us for a date at Drinking Liberally. I had just tore into her over her vote on the Iraq supplementals that kept the troops in Iraq until at least September. I sent her a letter which I published here outlining my objection and visited … Read more

The Lastest GOP Hypocrisy

Link: Sign the Petition to Expose The Obstructionists. Remember, not so long ago, when the GOP would bellyache regularly about "obstructionist" Democrats who used "cowardly" procedural maneuvers to prevent an "up or down vote" on their legislation and nominees? Remember how they railed against "thwarting the will of majority" with such "anti-democratic" tricks? Remember how … Read more

Send John Shadegg Packing

It’s time for John Shadegg to go. Arizona’s CD 3 has been targeted as one of the 40 districts of interest for a turn over by the DCCC in 2008. A loss by Shadegg would be a major blow the national GOP, not to mention giving Democrats a majority in our House delegation. Shadegg ran … Read more