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Senator Who?
Metzenbaum dead; nickname in question.
And like that - he’s gone
For those of you keeping score at home: that’s two “I will resigns” and one “I won’t resign” from Idaho’s soon-to-be-ex senator, Larry “Wide Stance” Craig. Barring yet another reversal, looks like he’s out. Guess whatever support that he thought he had turned out to be illusory.
I have to say, I’m a little disappointed. I [...]
Larry Craig just won’t go away
For many years, once-senator and erstwhile presidential hopeful Gary Hart has been - in my view, at least - the exemplar of thoroughly unsound personal judgment by a politician. Yes, Hart has a lot of notable competition for the position, but can anything really compare with a public challenge to a hostile and suspicious press [...]
You saw this episode already
I’ve had nothing to say about Larry Craig and his Minnesota restroom stall travails; it seems to me that most everything that can be said already has been. However, the transcript of Craig’s interrogation by investigator Dave Karsnial fairly demands some comment or other. This is fascinating reading, not just for its obvious prurience or [...]
Quick! Let’s be seen to be doing something!
There’s nothing like voting on hard-to-enforce punishments for ill-defined offenses to show you’re serious about something or other. (CNN link defunct.)
Worried about the political heat from high gasoline prices, the House is preparing to vote as early as Wednesday on a bill that would impose criminal and civil penalties on any energy company caught price [...]
Gas rebate idea dying a slow and deserved death
Frist backs off…not on that proposed $100 gas rebate check, but on having oil companies pay for it.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, under pressure from business leaders, retreated Monday from a plan that would have used a tax increase on oil companies and other businesses to pay for a $100 gasoline rebate for millions of [...]
Durbin Agonistes
Manufactured right-wing outrage and a Chicago mayor’s backstabbing made Dick Durbin cry. His apology was a mistake, but here we are, all the same.
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