WaPo on Charlie Rangel’s having been found guilty by the House Ethics Committee: The conviction covers four areas of unethical behavior, the committee ruled. Rangel, 80, was found to have improperly used his congressional staff and official letterhead to solicit donations from corporate charities and chief executives for a college wing named in his honor, […]

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Ron Paul in his response to the TSA’s new protocol of sexual assault and molestation: My legislation is simple. It establishes that airport security screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another […]

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In a previous post I mentioned that the so-called “repeal amendment” was a good idea. It still is. The American Spectator: LAST YEAR, Randy Barnett, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, took to the Wall Street Journal to argue that the states should use their power under Article V to call a […]

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Though his rhetoric is the decisively pro-Republitard bullshit that keeps getting those fuckers elected, this dude kinda has a a point when discussing the Demotarded “blame it on Bush” meme it has hatched and nurtured over the past two years: So in that context, let’s just see what Bush and Republicans are to blame for… […]

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By the time Bushie turned in to a political liability1 for congressional Republicans during election season, he was fuckin’ hated by most voters. Methinks ’tis also so for Obama. _______________ 1. Political liability in the sense that active support is more harmful for a particular candidate than being uninvolved.

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I find this kind of shit insanely annoying. We banned online gambling For the Children™, but congresscritters can revive it again when government needs cash. It’s not okay for adults to gamble, but it’s okay for the government to make money from it when needs additional revenue streams. Fuck you, you hypocritical fuckers.

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Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) in his post-“doing something”about our financial institutions orgasm: It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here. No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring […]

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Joe Davidson of The Washington Post on the very late Government Efficiency, Effectiveness and Performance Improvement Act of 2009: In a display of what passes for government efficiency, the House didn’t manage to approve the Government Efficiency, Effectiveness and Performance Improvement Act of 2009 until 2010 was half over. Eager to jump on the efficiency […]

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Conservatards both in the military and in Congress predictably circle their wagons and prepare for a last stand defense against a bitter enemy.  “Remember the Alamo”, I can hear one whisper under his breath.

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Libertarian Party Vice Chairman Joshua Koch in an interview with The Washington Post: The reason why we would even consider running somebody in this race is because we’re not going to let Rand determine what a Libertarian stands for . . . I’m here to say Rand does not have the Libertarian ideology. Though Paul […]

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