Change you can believe in

Dec 15, 2008 - Grand Jury Probes Richardson Donor’s New Mexico Financing Fee By Martin Z. Braun and William Selway Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A federal grand jury is investigating how a company that advised Jefferson County, Alabama, on bond deals that threaten to cause the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. - 0 Comments

What do the people want, again?

Mar 05, 2008 - Gotta love Political buzzwords. ;) :rotfl: - 4 Comments

Richardson Withdraws Bid

Jan 04, 2009 - Richardson withdraws bid to be commerce secretary WASHINGTON – New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract. Richardson's withdrawal was the first disruption of Obama's Cabinet process and the second "pay-to-play" investigation that has touched Obama's transition to the presidency. - 7 Comments

Are We Safer than Natasha Richardson?

Apr 06, 2009 - by Laura S. Boylan ((Laura S. Boylan is clinical associate professor of neurology, New York University School of Medicine; attending neurologist, Department of Veteran’s Affairs; and board member, Physicians for a National Health Program - Metro NY)) -------------------------------------- In an example of the circus of fear and hyperbole surrounding the health care debate, opponents of government involvement in health care are exploiting Natasha Richardson's tragic death from a skiing accident. - 4 Comments

Final vote on "clean energy" bill

Jun 26, 2009 - FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 477 (Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined) H R 2454 RECORDED VOTE 26-Jun-2009 7:17 PM QUESTION: On Passage BILL TITLE: American Clean Energy and Security Act Ayes Noes PRES NV Democratic 211 44 1 Republican 8 168 2 Independent TOTALS 219 212 3 ---- AYES 219 --- Abercrombie Ackerman Adler (NJ) Andrews Baca Baird Baldwin Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boccieri Bono Mack (R) Boswell Boucher Boyd Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carson (IN) Castle (R) Castor (FL) Chandler Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Driehaus Edwards (MD) Ellison Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Frank (MA) Fudge Giffords Gonzalez Gordon (TN) Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hall (NY) Halvorson Hare Harman Heinrich Higgins Hill Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hodes Holt Honda Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kilroy Kind Kirk (R) Klein (FL) Kosmas Kratovil Lance (R) Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski LoBiondo (R) Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maffei Maloney Markey (CO) Markey (MA) Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McHugh (R) McMahon McNerney Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy (NY) Murphy, Patrick Murtha Nadler (NY) Napolitano Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey Olver Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Perriello Peters Peterson Pingree (ME) Polis (CO) Price (NC) Quigley Rangel Reichert (R) Reyes (R) Richardson Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Sánchez, Linda T. - 19 Comments

Obama’s Broken Promises Were Entirely Predictable

Feb 15, 2009 - Obama’s Broken Promises Were Entirely Predictable February 14, 2009 - by Nicholas Guariglia (Pajamas Media) Nicholas Guariglia is a polemic and essayist who writes on Islam and Middle Eastern geopolitics. He is a graduate of the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, where he studied U.S. - 5 Comments

N. Korea sentences US reporters to 12 years labor

Jun 08, 2009 - N. Korea sentences US reporters to 12 years labor By VIJAY JOSHI, Associated Press Writer Vijay Joshi, SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea convicted two American journalists and sentenced them Monday to 12 years of hard labor, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States. Washington said it would "engage in all possible channels" to win the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore's San Francisco-based Current TV media venture. - 18 Comments

Why did Blago give money to Richardson?

Jan 07, 2009 - Why did Blago give money to Richardson? By EXAMINER EDITORIAL HOT ZONE ALERT - 1/7/09 Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is not known for selflessness but there does seem to be one occasion on which he appears to have reached out to help a fellow incumbent Democrat state executive. - 3 Comments

Do Democrats Have a Corruption Problem?

Feb 11, 2009 - February 11, 2009, 2:46 pm, Wall Street Journal Do Democrats Have a Corruption Problem? Susan Davis reports on politics. Congressional Democrats swept into power in 2006 after a steady drumbeat of attacks against Republicans for allowing a systemic “culture of corruption” to define their majority. - 7 Comments