Comments on: Happy Hour Roundup: Palin, Torture, Cheney, Schmoozing Reporters

By: BigBob

BigBob — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:17:28 +0000

Signing statements are ok now, but last year they were a horrible end-run around congress – that then-candidate Obama denounced, saying he taught constitutional law and would not use them…

Oh – but that was just campaign rhetoric… ans six signing statements later.. you know, they’re a useful too.

Hope & Hypocrisy!

By: kgb999

kgb999 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:52:37 +0000

Interesting post on TheHill … apparently the House isn’t too stoked on Obama’s signing statement!

“House members approved an amendment by a 429-2 vote to have the Obama administration pressure the World Bank to strengthen labor and environmental standards and require a Treasury Department report on World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) activities.”

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-overwhelming-rebukes-obama-signing-statement-2009-07-09.html

Wonder if it will make a difference?

By: jzap

jzap — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:24:03 +0000

31: What exactly will these firefighters testify to?

They know hot. They're gonna testify that Soto is really hot.

By: lamh31

lamh31 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:52:36 +0000

What the heck is up with this Ensign “affair”? Sanford has a scapegoat in his Lt Gov, but Ensign doesn’t, so why the hell is he still in office?

Also, over at TPM Muckracker they have a number of post discussing conflicting statements from Sen Coburn on the whole Ensign affair.

My question is why is Coburn making all the statements and not Ensign?

Does anyones else smell a weekend or Friday night newsdump resignation from Ensign?

By: lamh31

lamh31 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:59:41 +0000

Um…are the Senate GOP this oblivious, or just stupid.

“Senate Republicans Calling New Haven Firefighters As Witnesses For Sotomayor Hearings”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/senate-republicans-calling-new-haven-firefighters-as-witnesses-for-sotomayor-hearings.php#comments
What exactly will these firefighters testify to? How can they give testimony on Judge Sotomayor’s JUDICIAL JUDGEMENT. If Karma is truly a *****, then this will so backfire on GOP.

I have never watched a confirmation hearing…EVER!!! Not even the Clarence Thomas “pubes on a coke can” hearing. But I damn sure thinking about watching this one.

By: Bernie Latham

Bernie Latham — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:53:14 +0000

It’s adventurous to argue with Sullivan but I think he’s got this one wrong. I think a better thesis is that Rove simply used (though surely strengthening) a particular demographic that had been fostered before he arrived on the national scene (up from Texas) with any real significant levers of influence. Had fate turned a different corner, say if a very young Rove had been struck by a meteorite or had he been run over by a Republican Senator driving home after humping someone not is own christian wife, this demographic we are speaking of wouldn’t be, I think, much different in appearance than we see it now.

By: Tena

Tena — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:23:07 +0000

Congratulations, Greg – Keith Olbermann just credited you with the Palin lyin about the lawyers costin the tax payers so much money.

Woo Hoo!

By: jzap

jzap — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:37:02 +0000

Opponents of moral permissiveness.

By: sgwhiteinfla

sgwhiteinfla — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:20:13 +0000

I really don’t understand what is so controversial about needle exchanges that the Obama administration is going back on that promise. That really is not a good look by them. Hell who would even oppose it?