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Despite a much hyped bipartisan agreement being reached on Sunday apparently it was still too much for some Republicans to stomach and enough of them voted no that they managed to kill the bill: A four-hour debate included impassioned pleas for and against the measure from Democrats and Republicans alike. Even some of those . . . → Read More: Republicans bail on the $700 billion bailout bill. Dow drops another 700 points. How’s the economy doing? On the rebound already? And the war in Iraq? All wrapped up and done with? High gas prices? Glad that’s all settled then. Just in time for Congress to get pissy about American flags: The American flag has many labels: Stars and stripes. Old Glory. And sometimes, made in China. Congress . . . → Read More: Having solved all other problems Congress takes on Chinese-made American flags. Remember last month when the Democrats took their pussification to new heights by passing the new FISA law that would grant the Telecoms immunity from prosecution as a compromise? As it turns out giving the Telecoms immunity is the least of the problems that bill creates: The new FISA compromise: it’s worse than you think . . . → Read More: ArsTechnica.com reports that the new FISA law is worse than you think. Someone explain to me what we accomplished in giving the Democrats control of both halves of Congress back in 2006? Because so far I’m not seeing them do much of jack shit with it. Not only have they not brought the troops home, but the House just passed a bill giving the telephone companies immunity . . . → Read More: Pussification of House Democrats hits all time high. U.S. Democrats to back down on Iraq war conditions | Reuters WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding bill of his presidency without any of the conditions . . . → Read More: This just in: The Congressional Democrats are still a bunch of pussies. It’s a slow day at work today so I’m getting caught up on my current events. Events such as the recent passage of an anti-torture bill by Congress which Bush promptly vetoed. Congress was unable to get the two-thirds majority needed for an override ensuring that while Bush likes to keep claiming that his administration . . . → Read More: President Bush: The Torture President. So Congress went ahead and gave the phone companies that cooperated with the Bush Administration’s illegal warrantless wiretap program retroactive immunity. This pretty much means you can expect this sort of thing to happen again in the future. The folks over at TPM Muckraker have the list of pussy Democrats who jumped ship to . . . → Read More: Congress tells Telcos it’s OK to break the law. Remember back when President Bush first starting asking Congress to pass his various so-called anti-terrorism programs and Congress balked because of the privacy and civil liberties issues that would be impacted? Remember when Bush said, “Not a problem! We’ll set up a Privacy and Civil Liberty Oversight Board to make sure we’re not stepping on . . . → Read More: Bush Administration doesn’t give a shit about your civil liberties. I was going to write a long rant about House Resolution 888, but vjack over at Atheist Revolution has done such a good job I’m just going to repost his entry here and hope he doesn’t mind: House Resolution 888, sponsored by Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA-4th District), seeks to rewrite American history to include a . . . → Read More: H.R. 888 rewrites history to support “Christian Nation” myth. Remember how back before the 2006 elections all the Conservative pundits were making dire predictions about how the world as we know it would end if Nanci Pelosi became speaker of the house? How they suggested that she would single handedly bring about the ruin of this great country? Remember the sense of relief many . . . → Read More: The Democrats in Congress are a bunch of pussies. |
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