July 21, 2006
Romney prepares for battle
Comments:Surprised?
Congress is setting aside 750 million for grants/programs to promote marriage and better fathers.
How many of the applicants do think will have the word ‘ministries’ in it?
July 20, 2006
GOP: Protecting Families
By being sensitive to those who commit divorce, adultery, and child abuse.
Nope. The only threat to marriage and family is ‘the gays’. Once that is dealt with, it’s all easy...
Missed that day in civics
Rep. Steve King (R – Iowa) just said that we don’t have three equal and seperate powers of government, rather that the courts fall under congressional control – including the Supreme Court.
Update: As promised, here's the actual quote and link to the record.
In the end, it is the Congress that controls the courts. It is not three separate but equal branches. In the end, the congressional structure is set up for the Congress to determine the final authority over the judicial branch of government through the pursestrings. For all of our judicial courts and all of our appellate courts, everything is a creature of Congress, except the Supreme Court, which is also a creature of Congress, but established by the directive and the mandate of the Constitution.
Here’s the link to the record.
dolphin said (at July 19, 2006 10:58 AM):
I've no doubt that he said it, I was just curious if you could provide the exact quote just to satisfy my curiosity.
The Constitution is just an inconvience to much of the modern GOP.
Henry said (at July 19, 2006 11:47 AM):
I was watching it on C-Span, but it should be in the record published tomorrow. I'll post it when it's put up.
Gays: Is there anything they can’t do?
Apparently, we’re to blame for the Hezbollah attacks on Israel, and general violence in the region.
You can’t make this crap up.
Comments:July 19, 2006
Dem Candidate turns back on gays
Says they can’t be good parents.
Snow Job
Tony snow keeps pointing out how Bush has spent more money on Stem Cells than any other president in history.
Nice line, but there’s obviously an asterisk to that statement. The first stem cell line for research wasn’t created until 1997. Up until that point, there wasn’t a significant amount of research into Stem cells, nor was there a big need for funding.
It would be like claiming that Bush has spent more money on Homeland Security than any other president. Well, yea, because it didn’t exist before Bush took office.
A moment of Silence
For Ralph Reed, who lost his bid for Lt. Governor. He apparently forgot the biblical adage: Live by the Abramoff, die by the Abramoff.
Here’s hoping he will climb back under a rock, and remain hidden for the rest of his non-political life.
Busy House
Yesterday it was gay marriage. Today it’s stripping the federal courts from hearing any case involving the pledge of allegiance.
I’m waiting for the ‘School children must wear brown armbands’ debate...
July 18, 2006
I can’t imagine
With all that’s going on in Lebanon, someone in this administration could only think about charging people for rescue.
Just FYI
Tony Snow just said Bush considers Stem Cell research murder. Since IVF also involves the destruction of embryos, it stands to reason he thinks families who utilize the process must be murderers.
Update:
MR. SNOW: The President -- I don't think that's the choice that the President has presented. What the President has said is that he doesn't want human life destroyed. Now, you may consider that insignificant, but the President has said -- and you have had in a number of cases the Snowflake babies, where some of those fetuses have, in fact, been brought to term and have become human beings. The President believes strongly that for the purpose of research it's inappropriate for the federal government to finance something that many people consider murder; he's one of them.
GOP: Protecting Family
Luckily for us, there’s nothing more important in the House of Representatives than the debate on gay marriage, especially since it can not actually accomplish anything.
GOP: Protecting Family
By going after Domestic Partner benefits.
But really, it’s about protecting marriage.
Surprise
Bush personally blocked NSA Spy program probe.
Someone’s owed a toaster
We got another one.
That Voodoo economics that they do
Conservatives are flush with news that Bush’s tax cuts have actually raised revenue, providing a rationale for their existence.
Of course, it’s all smoke and mirrors, but who’s counting.
The Least Offensive
You know what I found far more disturbing than Bush’s expletive. His whole demeanor and posture when talking to Blair
Listen to some of his conversation before the ‘S’ word, and watch his demeanor during the discussion. He says to Putin: ‘Russia’s Big. And so Is China.’ When Tony Blair approaches, he calls him simply ‘Blair’. Then, as Tony Blair lays out his views on Israel/ Lebanon, Bush sits there (slouching), stuffing bread and butter into his mouth. He couldn’t even be bothered to turn and face the man he was having a conversation with until he (Bush) had something to say. Which boiled down to 'Someone should tell them to knock the shit off'.
The fact that Bush swears is not news. The fact that the President deals with other world leaders like he was still president of a fraternity is.
