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Monthly Archives: November 2007

What a difference a few days makes

Friday, November 16, 2007

On the 13th, Harry Reid said that Democrats won’t approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home. Today, they took a vote, and the bill lost, 53 in favor and 47 against, because of course Harry Reid would never think of forcing the Republicans to […]

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No telecom immunity for the moment

Friday, November 16, 2007

The Democrats in the Judiciary Committee have sent a FISA bill to the floor without telecom immunity. Details are a little unclear. It looks like after a series of machinations, which included a vote in which the Democrats failed to strip the provision from the bill, it somehow got sent to the floor without the […]

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One more reason why Congress is held in contempt

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Time to confess to error. A while back I reported that the Congress had filed contempt charges against Harriet Meiers and Joshua Bolton. I erred. In fact, the Judiciary Committee had merely filed the charge with the full House. I was wrong about something else: A criminal contempt charge must be enforced by a U.S. […]

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Presidential politics summarized

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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Heard this before

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that Democrats won’t approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home. By the end of the week, the House and Senate planned to vote on a $50 billion measure for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill would […]

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Remind me again. Who won the election?

Monday, November 12, 2007

Just think. A year ago a new day was dawning. Who would have thought then that we had elected a Congress that would give us two more years of Republican governance? Last Thursday, Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid said that they would jettison the renewable energy provisions in both the House and Senate […]

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Ben Stein: subprime borrowers profited from the mortgage mess

Sunday, November 11, 2007

If memory serves, Ben Stein, who appears to be a semi-Renaissance man, in that he is mediocre in a number of professions, opined that the credit crisis was no crisis at all. (I can’t find a link, as I write this the Times search server tells me that it is temporarily unavailable. In today’s Times […]

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Money for nothing

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Some observations in the last couple of days started me thinking about the many hidden taxes we pay-not to the state or federal government, but to the corporations. After court in Willimantic yesterday, I went to the co-op, and, while I paid for my purchase with a credit (actually debit) card noticed a sign that […]

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The truth on television

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Don’t be surprised if Keith Olbermann should disappear mysteriously. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=arWJ358tZgU[/youtube]

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Joe votes against trade pact

Friday, November 9, 2007

Congratulations to Joe Courtney for voting against the trade pact with Peru. Joe made a mistake on the Moveon thing, but he’s been pretty solid on almost everything else. It’s pretty safe to conclude that you should be against anything the National Association of Manufacturers is for. Shouldn’t that be the National Association of Corporations […]

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