Bloggers with short-term memories and no sense of their own irony… If it weren’t so sad, I might actually find it entertaining:
Captain’s Quarters:
Only Senators completely ignorant of the Constitution would consider impeachment a viable option for dealing with policy differences between the executive and the legislature. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 4, makes very […]
Archive for March, 2007
Seems like we discussed this not three weeks ago… yet, here we are again:
Sen. Chuck Hagel said Sunday that President Bush’s go-it-alone approach on Iraq could so anger lawmakers that some may consider impeachment to stop his war policy.
The Nebraska Republican, a frequent critic of the war, did not call for Bush’s impeachment. But in […]
If we didn’t already have enough evidence of Lee Terry’s hypocrisy on the subject of earmarks, there comes this excellent story from the Sunday Omaha World-Herald detailing one particular federal earmark for an I-80 bypass in southern Sarpy County - leading to a gravel road on an area of land owned by a single developer. […]
We’re going to spend quite a bit of virtual ink on this bill, because it is monumentally important. It is by far the most important piece of legislation this Congress has considered to date, and it demonstrates clearly that Congress will take steps to end this war.
I want to start by stating that there’s virtually […]
BREAKING: Lee Terry’s Iraq War Vote ‘We Should Never Leave Iraq’
Published by March 23rd, 2007 3 CommentsLee Terry just emailed this message out to his constituents about the U.S. House Iraq War Supplemental Funding Bill H.R. 1591. As Dave wrote, this is a bill that recently passed the House, but which Terry voted against. Also voting against the Iraq Bill were Nebraska’s Adrian Smith and Jeff Fortenberry.
Dear […]
Interesting speculation from The Right’s Field:
A source that I trust recently had a long conversation with a staffer for Chuck Hagel and passed details of it along to me. Hagel is preparing to set up a campaign headquarters in Nebraska, but is in a holding pattern because former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson is entertaining thoughts […]
Just in:
The House of Representatives voted today, by the narrowest possible margin and after an unusually emotional debate, to set a timetable for bringing American troops home from Iraq.
A few Democratic defections actually came from liberals who felt the bill didn’t go far enough. Only two Republicans voted in favor of the bill.
Bush is […]
