Pelosi takes on Colbert

"The Alice in Wonderland state of American politics has just reached a new level.

Nancy Pelosi, the stately, serious former House speaker released a video satire Thursday going after comedian Stephen Colbert for his super PAC.....

At the end of the video, Pelosi gets to her serious point. She is promoting the so-called DISCLOSE ( Read more... )

Crossroads GPS released an ad concerning Obama, unions, and health care reform waivers.

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It seems awfully convenient that the same groups who spent millions to get Obama into office, then spent millions more to push government-run health care were quick to apply for waivers exempting them from the very health care plan they supported ( Read more... )

Yes, I know that the whole "A Mosque kinda near Ground Zero!!!" controversy has been done to death but it has been a while since I harped on about Individual Rights and Civil Liberties so I thought I'd call attention to this...

There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have ( Read more... )

But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,

-Nancy Pelosi March 2010

It is often said that the new health care law will affect almost every American in some way. And, perhaps fittingly if unintentionally, no one may be more affected than members of Congress themselves.

In a new report, the Congressional Research Service says ( Read more... )

Tom Coburn Knocks Fox News, Says Nancy Pelosi is a "Nice Person"He's not my favorite because he said something bad about Fox News. He's my favorite because he has gone out on a limb with his party just to be a decent and respectful person. His political beliefs are 180 degrees away from mine, but I admire his decorum and his breaking away from ( Read more... )

"I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention-it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting."

"But we ( Read more... )

I think we all have to take responsibility for our actions and our words. We are a free country, and this balance between freedom and safety is one that we have to carefully balance. I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw -- I saw this myself in the late ‘70s in San Francisco, This kind of rhetoric is very ( Read more... )

Man, I thought you guys were up to this task, you know? Talking about every damn thing under the sun, the rocks, and even under my buns (of steel!) I didn't think anything could get past you. If Arlen Specter accidentally wrote an "R" where should have been a "D" in his Yahoo Instant Messanger chat with Steny Hoyer, I figured you would be all up on ( Read more... )