A South Dakota Moderate

Even though the numbers say the Democrats have the majority, most of the time they don’t because of no-shows and illness. This past year of Democratic control has been a comedy of errors, absence, and lack of backbone for the party that promised change to get elected. Senator Tim Johnson missed 100% of the votes [...]

Cross posted on KELO Blogs

I am sure many of us can remember the $600 hammers and the $800 toilet seats that the government wasted our money on from days gone by. After the uproar those purchases caused you would think that stories like these would not be so prevalent. You would be wrong.
The latest case [...]

It seems that Nancy Pelosi can’t even get a break from those in her own party as CNN is now reporting that the Democrats in the House have chose Steny Hoyer as the new House Majority Leader.
Pelosi, who is the women that Republicans “love to hate” isn’t getting any love on her side of the [...]

Well it only took several years, numerous calls from from just about everybody outside of the White House, and a Democratic landslide in the mid-terms.
CNN is reporting that embattled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is “quitting”.
“Don Rumsfeld has been a superb leader during a time of change,” Bush said Wednesday. “Yet he also appreciates the [...]

Jon Swift weights in on the Clinton interview on Faux news and the blame for 9/11.
The mistakes Clinton made are still having reverberations years after he made them. A new report by Bush’s intelligence experts says that the invasion of Iraq has worsened the terrorist threat. Of course, we wouldn’t have had to invade Iraq [...]

Regular readers here probably know my feelings on Congress’s penchant for adding amendments to bills that have nothing to do with the main legislation itself. The latest example occurred yesterday when Democrats tried to add much needed drought relief and wildfire recovery funds to the Senate port security bill.
Living in South Dakota I would be [...]

You might want to think twice about authoring a bill that has bipartisan support as it will surely be used to forward someone else’s political agenda.
The latest bill that fits into that category is the port security legislation that up until this afternoon was a sure bet to fly through the Senate. Instead Democrats added [...]

If Shuler Tried to Pass a Bill, Would It Be Intercepted?
That is a sample of what you will find at a site whose one and only purpose is to campaign against the Democratic challenger for the House seat in Western North Carolina, former NFL quarterback Heath Shuler.
Is this coming from some Republican from the area [...]

Not much time to post today but I did want to share a cartoon from the Sacramento Bee’s Rex Babin.

Pretty much sums up the GOP plans for November don’t you think?

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That must be the only conclusion one could make if the definition of a Liberal is someone opposed to the occupation in Iraq as many neo-cons claim.
A new CNN poll shows that 61 percent of the country is opposed to the war in Iraq, which is an all-time high for this particular poll. A few [...]

It’s not like Joe Lieberman has many political allies as it is but recent comments might not endure him to the few he has left.
The DINO whom is garnering numerous calls from his Democratic colleagues to drop his run as an Independent had been gaining support from Republicans in his bid but his interview yesterday [...]

Now that a Federal Court in Detroit has declared the NSA’s wiretapping program unconstitutional, I guess it’s time for King George and the propaganda machinery in the GOP (i.e Arlen Specter) to get busy in their efforts at changing the laws to further restrict our Constitutional rights.
Fox News reports a federal district court in Detroit [...]