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Democrats said that the outing of a CIA agent, personnel, whatever, was bad, and said that someone's head in the Bush Administration had to roll. Democrats wanted Cheney, but didn't get him. When the New York Times outs Karzai's brother as supposedly being paid by the CIA to do who knows what, Democrats act as if it is no big deal. What gives?

Castor's attempt to screen questions. Let's flood the lines with complaints about the ObamaCare disaster.

“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, “ Michelle Obama Michelle Obama’s 22 hand servants. Let the underlings of this nation eat cake….

Has Chris Dodd ever heard of the Bill of Attainder? Evidently not. Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) wants to tax AIG employees on their exhorbitant bonus payments.

The Kennedy Center was awash with celebs, the Obamas and assorted elected officials to celebrate Teddy Kennedy’s Birthday on Sunday evening March 8.

Some Hollywood Obama followers have formed a children’s chorus for their Dear Leader.

Robert Wexler the non-Floridian who represents the South Florida district that includes Delray Beach has decided to lease an apartment in the congressional district that he claims to represent rather than declaring residency at the home of his in-laws. Wexler actually lives in in Potomac, Md where his children attend school.

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh at lunch today, and he mentioned that Ms. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) was castigating the President for failing to release any of the "700 million barrels" of oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (our emergency supply). Guess what? Nancy has been preventing the production of a lot more than 700 million barrels of our oil, and she has been doing it for years. Take a look here: http://www.mms.gov/omm/pacific/offshore/oil-gaspdfs/2000-063.pdf"Unproved reserves are estimated to be 1,316 million barrels of oil and 922 billion cubic feet of gas, in 25 fields."That's ONE BILLION, THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN...

Mark Foley's Oprah defense -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 6, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern Like all such scandals, the matter of Mark Foley and his lurid valentines to congressional pages is instructive for what it reveals, and not just about Foley, but about his party, its leaders and us. Having checked in to "rehab," after it was revealed that he had written salacious e-mails and instant messages to pages, Foley shoved his lawyer out front to say he was an alcoholic, gay and had been abused by a clergyman as a boy. What is Foley up to? Rather than speak directly to...

"If you own a DVR, read this. Your cable or satellite company (DirecTV, Dish Network) is reporting to ABC (and the other networks) what programs you have on a "timer." If your DVR, for instance, is set to record "Desperate Housewives" or "Grey's Anatomy," ABC likely knows it. And those ratings projections will go up, along with ad rates, and finally, the profit in Mickey's pocket. Last night, I deleted all my ABC timers. There's a fairly good chance that I'll still watch "Desperate Housewives" when it debuts on the 24th, but I won't give ABC the benefit of knowing...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Russ Feingold's campaign said Friday it was returning campaign contributions from political action committees and individuals associated with the law firm of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Feingold campaign aide George Aldrich said in a statement that the campaign is returning $1,600 worth of donations from a PAC and two individuals associated with Greenberg Traurig, where Abramoff worked. "We are not aware that any donation to our campaign committee is tied to Mr. Abramoff, but because he worked at the law firm during the time we received contributions from others at Greenberg Traurig, we have decided to...

Nancy Pelosi's "Republican terror alert facelift level" is at condition burnt orange, or "very tight". The debate on the "Iraqus Interruptus", immediate troop withdrawal proposal in the House of Representatives dangerously approached WWF territory at times, and there were some in dire need of a metal folding chair across the back. The Republican grapplers picked up some chairs, but by the time they turned around, Dems had scattered like vampires at sunup. Last night, the House of Representatives voted 403-3 against a non-binding proposal for immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq. It's hunting season here in Michigan, so to use that...

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff paid at least a portion of the expenses for two Democratic members of Congress and two staff members to then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) during a pair of trips in the mid-1990s to the Northern Mariana Islands, according to a former Abramoff secretary and travel records published on the Internet yesterday. The payments represent two new instances in which lawmakers and staff members on overseas trips had their expenses initially covered by a registered lobbyist despite a blanket ban in congressional ethics rules on direct payments by lobbyists for travel-related expenses.

Milaukee radio talk show host Charles Sykes updated listeners this morning on the organized attacks from the left to silence Mark Belling, a Milwaukee conservative talk radio host and competitor of Sykes. Belling has been suspended for the last two days from doing his popular talk show in Milwaukee, The Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show. The suspension stems from Belling's use of the term "wetbacks" to describe illegal alien voters. The wetback slur prompted liberal groups from all over Milwaukee to demand that Belling be fired. The SILENCE BELLING MOVEMENT is being led by all the usual left wing suspects,...

On 11/9/04, Victor Huyke, editor of El Conquistador Latino News, a Hispanic newspaper located in Milwaukee, called the Charlie Sykes show to further pile on criticism of Milwaukee talk show host Mark Belling. In the course of his criticism of Belling, Mr. Huyke, who is leading the charge to have Belling fired, off-handedly remarked that the Milwaukee Latino community was not going to allow itself to be treated like a "retarded stepchild who sits in the corner." Sykes immediately called Huyke on this, pointing out that many people are offended by the use of the term "retarded." Huyke did apologize....

Kerry’s Nonsense Why did the Massachusetts senator authorize a war of whim? A big question in determining whether the Democrats can take back the White House next year is: Can the party think straight on matters of war and peace? Judging from Sen. John Kerry's performance Tuesday, the answer is "no." Let's try to follow Kerry's argument. First, he says his vote "to threaten the use of force" against Iraq last year was "right." O.K., but why? Presumably because Saddam represented a threat to the region and to U.S. interests severe enough to justify war. Otherwise, Kerry should have voted...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut has asked the Justice Department (news - web sites) and FBI (news - web sites) to investigate whether an accused spy may have illegally funneled Chinese government money into Republican coffers in the 1990s, The Washington Post said on Sunday. The Post report cited a letter that Lieberman, a leading Democratic candidate for president, sent on Friday to the Justice Department about Katrina M. Leung, recently arrested on charges she was a double agent who passed classified information to China. Leung was a well-known fund-raiser for Republicans in Southern California and...

Hypocrisy on Parade Democrat after democrat has come out against President Bush and his Iraq policy. Most notably Tom Daschle. One Monday, Sen. Minority Leader Daschle says he’s "…saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we’re now forced to go to war." Source That is quite the flip flop from his position in 1998. Then Sen. Daschle had the following to say. "Look, we have exhausted virtually our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that, what other option is there but to force them to do...

In February of 1998, while president bill clinton was facing impeachment proceedings as a result of his perjury and obstruction of justice in a sexual harassment lawsuit, several prominent democrats in the U.S. Senate cosponsored a resolution authorizing clinton to take military action against Saddam Hussein and Iraq for its repeated violations of the UN sanctions on its chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons programs.  Now, four years later and after terrorists (who conducted some of the meetings and got some of their financing in Iraq) attacked the U.S. and are no doubt planning further more deadly strikes, these same...

THERE'S a distinct whiff of hypocrisy about the Democratic bid - with Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle heading the charge - to paint Bush & Co. as too "cozy" with big business to really crack down on crooked CEOs. It smells of hypocrisy because Daschle is pretty cozy with big business himself, since it's a major source of his family income. His wife, Linda, is one of Washington's premier lobbyists. But you can fuhgeddaboutit if you want to know how much money the Daschles rake in from her lobbying as a co-chair of the "public policy group" at the law/lobbying...

July 09, 2002, all the major networks -- The sight of Barney Frank grilling a corporate executive about why he didn't know every detail of what was going on in one of the largest companies in the world? Ludicrous. Barney Frank didn't know his boyfriend was running a homosexual house of prostitution in Frank's own basement!...(snip)For complete article, click here.

When Ross Byrd left the Jasper County trial of the man who masterminded his father's 1998 dragging death, he told the press, "One down, two to go." Minutes earlier, John W. "Bill" King became the first of two white men sentenced to death for the racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr., a black man. A third man was sentenced to life in prison. Throughout King's trial, Byrd told reporters he wanted his father's killers to receive the death penalty for the gruesome killing. His father was chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged to his death....