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Democrats Unable to Bring Troops Home
WASHINGTON -- Nearly a year after anti-war voters put them in power, congressional Democrats remain unable to pass legislation ordering troops home from Iraq. Frustrated by Republican roadblocks, Democrats now plan to sit on President Bush's $196 billion request for war spending until next year -- pushing the Pentagon toward an accounting nightmare and deepening their conflict with the White House on the war. We're going to continue to do the right thing for the...
Nov 17, 2007, 4:42 am - LOTTOMIKE

Defying Bush, Senate Approves Stem Cell Bill
WASHINGTON (April 12) - A stubborn Senate voted Wednesday to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, ignoring President Bush 's threat of a second veto on legislation designed to lead to new medical treatments. The 63-34 vote was shy of the marg...
Apr 12, 2007, 2:25 am - LOTTOMIKE

Lawmakers Consider Less Crack Cocaine Penalties
March 12) - Momentum is building in Congress to ease crack cocaine sentencing guidelines, which the American Civil Liberties Union and other critics say have filled prisons with low-level drug dealers and addicts whose punishments were much worse than their crimes. Federal prison sentences for possessing or selling crack have far exceeded those for powder cocaine for two decad...
Mar 13, 2007, 7:56 am - LOTTOMIKE

two years till election day and the race is on
WASHINGTON The 2006 midterms are finally over (almost). Let the 2008 games begin. A handful of congressional races aren't quite over yet, but the jockeying for the 2008 presidential contest - going on for months, if not years - has burst fully into the open. For the Republicans, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York, have registered committees and signal...
Nov 15, 2006, 8:49 pm - LOTTOMIKE

"Turning Point
Interesting .... Boortz has been advocating allowing Dems to take the House this election to hopefully pound some sense in Republicans for allowing RINOS (Repub in name only) to overspend, expand government, etc. However it seems the Poodle did it for him along with many blogs I cruised last night. Kerry now calls his remarks a joke and aimed at the Bush Administr...
Nov 1, 2006, 9:02 am - konane

"Liberals Gone Wild!
Liberals Gone Wild! By...
Oct 19, 2006, 5:26 pm - konane

This guy's cool!
Costs nothing and doesn't even require that you believe in it before you give it a try, if you are of a mind to: Willard Fuller website (link) Doctor Willard Fuller September 25, 2006 In America, over one thousand people a year si...
Sep 26, 2006, 9:49 pm - Rip Snorter

Clinton Crazy? Yes, Crazy Like A Fox!!
This was in response to Todd's Blog today, but I wrote so much that I decided to post it as a separate entry. Assuming we're talking about the same Bill Clinton, what I saw (and also read word for word) was an eloquent, well educated man who had total control of the English language trying to answer a question while a rude television personality interrupted him each time he continued to speak. This was the old &quot...
Sep 24, 2006, 7:50 pm - justxploring

"Chavez Wants to Reboot UN
Found a pic of Chavez in his new car. Venezuela was the fourth-largest crude oil supplier to the U.S. last June , . .... ... and we owe a debt of gratitude to the greens for hamstringing domestic drilling, refinery expansion thereby s...
Sep 21, 2006, 1:53 pm - konane

"Hail to the Chief
From Powerlineblog.com ..... if you remember I've never thought Pres. Bush was dumb. Hail to the Chief I had the opportunity this afternoon to be part of a relatively small group who heard President Bush talk, extemporaneously, for around forty...
Aug 26, 2006, 8:02 pm - konane