Showing posts with label congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congress. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Friday, July 25, 2008

Richard Simmons Testifies Before Congress

And the Post's Dana Milbank has the, um, skinny.

(warning: this WashPo video is like a train wreck, you know you shouldn't watch but you can't help yourself. Video starts after a 13 second commercial).

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Ear (mark) Ache

Number of Congressional Earmarks (pronounced "pork") in 2004: 15,877 (Library of Congress).

Number of pork barrell projects earmarks in pending in 2007: 32,000 (Rep. David Obey, Chair, House Appropriations Committee, cited by the Assoc. Press.)

New boss. Same as the old boss. Or maybe worse.

Let's move beyond the silly notion of political parties. Let's just keep voting incumbents out until they get it right.