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Tony Perkins said Frist?s stem cell position “reflects an unwise and unnecessary choice both for public policy and for respecting the dignity of human life,” and withheld a second invite. So who did they find instead? None other than Tom DeLay. He?s ?a natural fit? for the rally, said Perkins. Maybe he hasn?t heard about DeLay?s little ethics problem.
Read moreAccording to two former Air Force prosecutors, Maj. John Carr and Maj. Robert Preston those tribunals are rigged both resigned rather than take part. As Maj. Preston wrote in an e-mail to his superiors, “I consider the insistence on pressing ahead with cases that would be marginal even if properly prepared to be a severe threat to the reputation of the military justice system and even a fraud on the American people.”
Read moreThis morning I listened, as I always do, to NPR’s Morning Edition. They interviewed Sen Rick Santorum about his book, It Takes a Family. Clearly, the book’s title is a slam against Hillary Clinton’s book, It Takes a Village. I haven’t read his book, but according to what he said this morning, instead of slamming Hillary, it sounds as if he actually agrees.
Read moreThis is bad, seriously. Paul Hackett is running as the first Iraq war vet to run for Congress, and now his GOP opponent, Jean Schmidt, just said that being an American vet from the Iraq war is the wrong kind of experience for a member of Congress.
Read moreSenate Majority Leader Bill Frist yesterday “derailed a bipartisan effort to set rules for the treatment of enemy prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other military detention camps by abruptly stopping debate on a $491 billion defense bill,” Knight-Ridder reports.
Read moreMajority Leader Tom DeLay may have faded from the front pages, but he’s still up to his dirty tricks. Yesterday, Rep. Henry Waxman revealed that DeLay slipped ?a $1.5 billion giveaway to the oil industry, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas? into the energy bill. But it gets worse. The provision was “mysteriously inserted” into the text of the energy bill “after the conference was closed, so members of the conference committee had no opportunity to consider or reject this measure.”
Read moreBush is my shepherd; I dwell in want.
Read moreSenator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, announced that his commitee will be “reviewing” the criminal probe by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald of the White House leak of the identities of covert CIA agents. My guess is that Sen. Roberts is looking to throw the White House a lifeline on this one.
Read moreEric Minamyer, an advisor to Jean Schmidt (R), running for Congress in Southern Ohio, sees fit to question Paul Hackett’s service to this country in Iraq. How dare he. Hackett is a Democrat running against Ms. Schmidt, and, if elected, would be the only Iraq War veteran in Congress.
Read moreLast week Robert Traynham, the chief of staff and communications director to ultra-conservative Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), was outed by the gay press. Many conservatives were angry about what they considered to be a betrayal of the man?s privacy.
Read moreJoe Wilson came forward with his op-ed and appearances on Sunday talk shows to say the President lied to the American people in his State of the Union address. Bush made flat claims that he KNEW he didn’t have the evidence to back up.
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