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The Battle Over The Employee Free Choice Act Brings Out The Antilabor Extremists

If anything, like any other labor issue, the same familiar group of anti-labor union extremists always pops up no matter if the issue is maternity leave, fair wages or The Employee Free Choice Act meant to put more teeth into the laws meant to prevent illegal wiretapping, interception of employee emails, or threats to employees who are merely considering forming a labor union.

Posted on August 1, 2008 3:45 PM

Republican Congressional Candidate Voices Support For Obama

In Oregon's 1st Congressional District, the Republican candidate who won his party's nomination with 70% of the vote in the May primary has voiced support for Senator Barack Obama for president. And the latest Rasmussen poll finds that as high...

Posted on July 30, 2008 8:00 AM

The GOP's Best Hopes for Washington Gridlock

In the Oregon primary yesterday, Republican Mike Erickson did very narrowly manage to win the GOP nomination over perennial candidate for public office, Kevin Mannix. However, Erickson is certainly damaged goods in any general election run because of the serious...

Posted on May 21, 2008 4:43 PM

Another Abortion Hypocrite?

Wealthy Republican businessman Mike Erickson has had great success as a college football player, holding the record for field goals at 32 for Portland State University, and in business has also proven very successful. But a new bombshell may once...

Posted on May 14, 2008 1:51 PM

Manufacturers Find New Ways To Market Unsafe Sleepwear For Children

Product liability lawyers and the federal government have helped to establish strict safety standards for children's sleepwear that is fire resistant, however many large retailers are finding new ways to market cheaply made imported potentially unsafe children's sleepwear and circumvent...

Posted on February 2, 2008 9:00 AM

110th Congress in Review

The Washington Post has conducted a year end, session-end review of the 110th Congress. Here are their conclusions. Democratic lawmakers steadily challenged President Bush but failed to budge policy on Iraq. Their impact on other foreign policy issues was...

Posted on December 26, 2007 8:00 AM

Fighting the Bush S-Chip Veto - TV Ad

Americans for Change are rolling out this ad with a $1 million dollar campaign on cable networks. There are definite signs that Bush's support from Republicans in Congress is eroding overall, and this issue promises to accelerate that trend. Bush...

Posted on October 9, 2007 12:09 AM

Petraeus' PR Push and Crocker's Crap

McClatchy: "What Crocker and Petraeus didn't say" The Bush administration's top two officials in Iraq answered questions from Congress for more than six hours on Monday, but their testimony may have been as important for what they didn't say as...

Posted on September 11, 2007 9:28 AM

Rove was Right

from Townhall: Karl Rove, President Bush's political lieutenant, told a closed-door meeting of 2008 Republican House candidates and their aides Tuesday that it was less the war in Iraq than corruption in Congress that caused their party's defeat in the...

Posted on July 30, 2007 12:00 PM

The Impeachment Drumbeat: Bill Moyers

Another in a series on the growing drumbeat for impeachment, here Bill Moyers takes up the question in this (5:08) clip from his program which aired on PBS Friday, July 13, 2007 at 9 p.m.: Click on the 'play' button...

Posted on July 15, 2007 1:50 PM

Iraq Endgame Shaping Up

from Andrew Sullivan: The parameters of the September decision on Iraq are beginning to come into sharper focus. The posturing begins with quiet feelers from the White House for some kind of face-saver from the Congress: White House officials have...

Posted on June 26, 2007 2:00 PM

Anti-Pelosi Amendment Smacked Down

TPM Cafe story: Yesterday we brought you the news that hapless GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa -- fresh from his efforts to build on our southern border the sort of electric fence used for livestock -- was planning to...

Posted on June 22, 2007 2:00 PM

The Dumpling-crat Congress is a Bad Joke

Huffington Post commentary: There were a couple of Disney comedies from the mid-Seventies -- The Apple Dumpling Gang and its largely uncalled for sequel The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again -- that starred Don Knotts and Tim Conway and elicited...

Posted on June 20, 2007 2:00 PM

Bush Plans Flood of Vetoes

Real Clear Politics commentary: Addressing a Republican fund-raising dinner at the Washington Convention Center last Wednesday night, President Bush declared: "If the Democrats want to test us, that's why they give the president the veto. I'm looking forward to vetoing...

Posted on June 18, 2007 8:00 PM

House Dems Propose "Surtax" on the Wealthy

Washington Post story: House Democrats looking to spare millions of middle-class families from the expensive bite of the alternative minimum tax are considering adding a surcharge of 4 percent or more to the tax bills of the nation's wealthiest households....

Posted on June 8, 2007 6:00 PM

Read the Constitution, George...

Item on TPM Cafe: Richardson Blasts Dem Leadership. Bill Richardson has slammed the Democratic leadership for giving in to the White House on the timetable issue, saying simply that "It is wrong for the Congress to abandon a withdrawal timetable."...

Posted on May 25, 2007 4:00 PM

Congressmen Learn You Can't Live on Food Stamps

Washington Post story: A pork chop and a bag of peanuts proved too tempting for Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), one of four members of Congress who has struggled for the past week to subsist on $21 worth of food --...

Posted on May 22, 2007 6:00 PM

Reid Has Plan to Block Recess Appointments

TPM Cafe story: Reid Will Repeatedly Call The Senate Into Session, To Block Recess Appointments U.S. News reports that Harry Reid has a plan to block President Bush from making recess appointments during the upcoming August vacation: Reid will call...

Posted on May 21, 2007 6:00 PM

Democrats Utterly Cave on Iraq

Benton Crier story: In grudging concessions to President Bush , Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of billions of dollars in spending on domestic programs, officials said...

Posted on May 21, 2007 5:47 PM

Congressional Democrats Find It's GOOD to be the King

Political Wire story: "Democrats are wielding a heavy hand on the House Rules Committee, committing many of the procedural sins for which they condemned Republicans during their 12 years in power," reports The Politico. "So far this year, Democrats have...

Posted on May 17, 2007 7:00 PM

Rove Clashes with Maverick House Republicans

The Hill story: Sources said that Dan Meyer, Bush's liaison to the House, confronted LaHood while White House political strategist Karl Rove rebuked Kirk. It is unclear if LaHood or Kirk were the originial sources for the stories, but LaHood...

Posted on May 11, 2007 2:02 PM

Republican Congressional Support for Bush is Shaky

Yahoo News story: The House Republican leader said Sunday that GOP support could waver if President Bush's Iraq war policy does not succeed by the fall. But first, the president's troop increase deserves a shot, Minority Leader John Boehner said....

Posted on May 6, 2007 1:44 PM

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