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I can’t think of truer words. But oh what a difference 10 years can make. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is facing a major ethics investigation into his past lavish, lobbyist-paid trips. DeLay has so far refused to offer any details into his activities. Maybe DeLay should take his own advice from 1995 and follow his own standards in 2005:
Read moreAs the U.S. government’s budget deficit tops $2.2 TRILLION, Bush made the following statement at the signing ceremony for the credit industry relief bill (known in Congress at the Bankruptcy Reform Bill): “Bankruptcy should always be a last resort in our legal system. If someone does not pay his or her debts, the rest of society ends up paying them.”
Read moreSeems the Governor of California has a good excuse when he screws up. According to a story on MSNBC: Blaming
Read moreOK, so we know that Tom DeLay isn’t all that fond of crazy activist judges like, say, the seven Republican appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court who went along with the “murder” of Terri Schiavo.
Read moreRatzinger was essentially the right hand man to John Paul, who appointed most of the College of Cardinals. I thought this guy was the heir-apparent all along. Like Bush, John Paul wasn’t ready to go.
Read moreAccording to Josh Marshall, the Rev. James Dobson, DD (Doctor of Divinity, or Daffy Duck, or both) claims to smell the odor of a burning cross drifting from our nation’s highest court. James Dobson compares the “men in white robes, the Ku Klux Klan” to the “black-robed men” on the Supreme Court.
Read morePersonally, I’m getting a little tired of all this making fun of conservatives. When you think about it, they deserve a lot of respect.
Read moreSixty years after his death we should be raising a toast to F.D.R. and his progressive ideas. And we should take that opportunity to ask: How in the world did we allow ourselves to get from there to here?
Read moreThere is no comment I can make that can serve as an appropriate repsonse to what DeLay said in this interview. Tom DeLay is, once again, deficient in both scholarship and intent.
Read moreGreetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one God, with two abstentions. Brother Flaming Sword of Moderation noted the possibility of there being no God at all, and his objection was noted with love by the secretary.
Read moreJames Dobson, the religious figure who all but dictates Republican social policy, just referred to Supreme Court justices as the modern equivalent of the KKK.
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