… And he’s not a Republican. Well, at least not anymore.
Arlen Specter, who shares my rare first name, was until earlier today an R-PA, but now is a D-PA, after announcing he has jumped ship and switched to the Democratic Party.
The move will give Dems a 60 seat filibuster-proof majority once Al Franken (D-MN) is […]
Another epic GOP fail:
Famously, Maine Senator Collins, the supposedly moderate Republican who demanded cuts in health care spending in exchange for her support of a watered-down version of the stimulus, fumed about the pandemic funding: “Does it belong in this bill? Should we have $870 million in this bill No, we […]
You know what they say… those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it. Case in point, brought to us by the Bush Administration:
In a series of high-level meetings in 2002, without a single dissent from cabinet members or lawmakers, the United States for the first time officially embraced the brutal methods of […]
This is an embarrassing day for the country, but obviously it’s better this information is out rather than kept secret like the CIA wanted:
C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously […]
Since when do I get press releases from the Venezuelan embassy sent to my email? Since this, I guess:
Historic greeting between Presidents Obama and Chávez in Trinidad and Tobago
April 18, 2009
Before the inaugural session of the 5th Summit of the Americas, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, walked up to the President of […]
… So seat him already.
The Obama administration stated its support on Tuesday for a three-judge panel ruling that Al Franken had received the most votes in the Senate election in Minnesota. But spokesman Robert Gibbs wouldn’t go so far as to call for Franken’s seating.
“I haven’t talked to the President about that action,” Gibbs said […]
I don’t have a video, but this morning on the Today Show on NBC, whatever ‘expert’ Matt Lauer was interviewing said that the American captain held hostage by Somalian pirates is a “major test” for president Obama. What?! How is a routine hostage situation that came out of a bungled robbery a major test at […]
The state legislature of Vermont just overrode their governor’s veto of a same sex marriage veto. I grew up in neighboring New Hampshire, and would occasionally see bumper stickers on cars with VT license plates that read “Take Vermont Back,” an allusion to efforts to overturn the state’s supreme court ruling in 1999 that instated […]
Sorry it’s been tough to post lately, the International Olympics Committee is in town this week and early next week, for their evaluation of Chicago for the 2016 summer games… Which means I’ve been running around (sometimes literally) to get footage of all the events that are going on for this documentary I’m working on […]
Epic fail:
The Justice Department will drop all charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, NPR has learned.
A jury convicted Stevens last fall of seven counts of lying on his Senate disclosure form in order to conceal $250,000 in gifts from an oil industry executive and other friends. Stevens was the longest-serving Republican in the […]
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