How’s that hope and Change working for ya, Mr. President?
A teacher at a failing Rhode Island school where he and all his colleagues were fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama’s support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools.
Former federal judge Michael McConnell, of Stanford University, considers the constitutionality of the so-called “Slaughter Solution” — a proposal to allow the House to pass both the Senate health care bill and proposed reconciliation amendments in a single vote.
From CATO
White House senior advisor David Axelrod continued the administration’s campaign against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision on ABC’s This Week:
It was late in the campaign in 2006. The TV news ran an EXCLUSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!! all about Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL), who seemed to have hang-ups that made him a righteously sick puppy.
Now it's early 2010. Eric Massa (D-NY) seems to have a little more going on than just some disgusting text messages. Politico dishes the dirt below.
From Yahoo News
Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are urging Congress not to restrict the executive branch from prosecuting terrorism defendants in federal courts or in reformed military commissions in the United States.
The request Thursday in a joint letter to House leaders ratchets up the debate between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans on how best to proceed legally against accused terrorists.
From USAToday
The Associated Press, citing an unnamed source, is reporting that a House panel has found that Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) violated ethics rules.The investigative-journalism site ProPublica has background on the various ethics charges against Rangel.
You wanna' stop the Tea parties for good? That's easy! make the gaseous form of Dihydrogen-Monoxide a regulated pollutant. Shtuff I wish I was making up follows below...
Princella Smith will run for Congress in AR-1. She will run as a GOP candidate in a district the GOP has not won since 1872. She is 26 years old and would be the first Female African-American Republican in Congress evah if she won. Details follow below.
“I think I’m the person to do this,” Smith said. “I’m going to tell people to come on board with me, listen to these ideas, and that we can get people excited again about the Republican Party.”
Democratic Rep. Marion Berry, a Blue Dog, has held the seat since 1997. Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln previously represented the mostly rural district. In January, Berry announced that he would not seek re-election. (HT: The DC)
Godspeed!
US banks are not lending money. They really are not lending money. The UK Telegraph tells us what the US Government won't.
From The Vail Spot
I've just heard from an impeccable source that Barbara Mikulski, the Democratic Senator who is up for reelection this November, will choose to retire. Mrs. Mikulski is expected to make her formal announcement in the next few days.
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