Posted on July 30th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The battle over SCHIP was in the news on Monday with Paul Krugman noting that “denying basic health care to children whose parents lack the means to pay for it, simply because you’re afraid that success in insuring children might put big government in a good light, is just morally wrong.” And the public understands [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Democrats, In The News, John Kerry, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans, Senate
Posted on July 28th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The N.Y. Times editorial board is calling for the impeachment of Alberto Gonzales. It sounds like a damn fine idea to me… President Bush often insists he has to be the decider — ignoring Congress and the public when it comes to the tough matters on war, terrorism and torture, even deciding whether an ordinary [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Congress, In The News, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans
Posted on July 27th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The Clinton campaign sent out a fundraising email today that focused on WaPo fashion writer, Robin Givhan’s piece on Hillary Clinton’s cleavage last week. The fundraising email is causing a stir and Howard Kurtz and Anne E. Kornblut have come to Givhan’s defense in a post on the WaPo’s The Trail blog. I didn’t comment [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, In The News, OP/ED's, Politics
Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The WaPo’s editorial board today that it time for Alberto Gonzales to go. In their editorial today citing yesterday’s tragic testimony of Gonzales before Congress, the WaPo said, “SOMETHING IS terribly, terribly wrong when the attorney general of the United States is called to testify under oath before Congress and much of the hearing revolves [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, In The News, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans
Posted on July 15th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Vacation? What’s that? Here in America, we’re in the “land of the overworked and tired,” and sadly, as Ezra Klein reports in an OP/ED in the Sunday L.A. Times: THE MOST astonishing revelations in Michael Moore’s “Sicko” have nothing to do with healthcare. They’re about vacation time. French vacation time, to be precise. Yes, it’s [...]
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Filed under: Economy, In The News, OP/ED's
Posted on July 15th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Any one who got the point that Hart was making here with his piece on Ted Nugent that was largely misinterpretated and taken out of context by first World Net Daily and then Hannity, got that the hate speak from the right wing is driving many to distraction and frustration and we must do something [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, In The News, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans
Posted on July 14th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Yesterday’s Bill Moyers Journal was on the subject of Impeachment. It’s a hot topic these days, as Moyers notes,one that more and more people are talking about: “It’s in the air and on your computer screen, a growing clamor aimed at both President Bush and Vice-President Cheney.” Impeachment is also “…the word feared and loathed [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Democrats, In The News, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans
Posted on July 9th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
With the White House in “Panic Mode” over the GOP revolt on Bush’s Iraq War, Senator John Kerry gave them a little more cause earlier today when he announced that he will co-sponsor legislation aimed at preventing the President from writing so-called “signing statements” when he signs bills – a little known measure that allows [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Democrats, In The News, John Kerry, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans, Senate
