Plunderbund

There they go again. Asshat Congressman extraordinaire Steve King of Iowa goes all wingnutty on Obama’s middle name Hussein (which means “handsome one” in Arabic, or “terrorist goat fucker” in Wingnut). He started off saying:
“They’ll be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They’ll be dancing in the streets because of […]

“Something’s happening in America, something some of us did not see coming. Barack Obama has tapped into something that is extraordinary.”
- Thank you Representative Lewis. Something is happening in America. Something extraordinary too. And you, sir, paved the way. Thanks for making it official!
See Tim@BSB for a great take on […]

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This has been posted in other places, but some miss the point to this. Her defense of it is that there is no shame in Barack wearing “his native clothing…the clothing of his country”. Excuse me Miss Tubbs Jones, but Barack Obama’s native country is THE UNITED STATES. In order to run […]

Lots of videos, I know, but they’re just too good not to share. Lawrence Lessig outlines two new movements in America; Change Congress and Lessig for CA-12… maybe. This really is a fantastic video.

A clever FoxTrot cartoon yesterday skewered Congress over 1998’s DMCA. I can’t inline the image here, so head over to the website to read it yourself. Very funny.

Tom Cole, Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said:
I would like to congratulate Congressman-elect Bob Latta on his victory in the special election in Ohio’s Fifth Congressional District. This campaign became a cause célèbre for national Democrats and liberal activists nationwide, but in the end, Bob’s anti-illegal immigration, anti-tax hike message won the day.
The […]

The hilarity of watching Latta and Buehrer beat each other up in a primary for the Republican nod in OH-05 is too much fun. It appears they are both angling for the wingnut christofascist vote as Ohio Daily Blog is reporting today.
Latta says: “Steve Buehrer doesn’t want our children to pray […]

Congrats to Lee Terry (R-NE) and Ron Paul (R-TX). They were the only two to vote no on H.CON.RES.200 “concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding the immediate and unconditional release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the severely deteriorating human rights situation in Burma.”

Nice work fellas! Ron Paul is also […]

We fell in love with him for his honorable (though difficult) decision to take “No Money from No Body“, now he needs “Mo’ Money from Mo’ Bodies”. I was asked to post on this by a good friend, but didn’t get a chance to before Jeff “Scoop” Coryell got to it. Yellow Dog […]

So sez Congressional Quarterly, via Huffington Post.
President Bush’s success rating in the Democratic-controlled House has fallen this year to a half-century low, and he prevailed on only 14 percent of the 76 roll call votes on which he took a clear position.
The previous low for any president was in 1995, when Bill Clinton won just […]

Rep. George Miller (D-CA) talking about why the College Cost Reduction Act is a good thing, and why the GOP shouldn’t have tried to kill the bill. Got the chamber pretty fired up.

The bill passed the House yesterday, despite the best efforts of Pryce, Tiberi, Chabot, Gillmor, Jordon, Hobson, and Schmidt. Nancy Pelosi’s […]

Matt Dole gets invited to be an attack dog for OH18 on the NRCC’s “The Real Democrat Story” blog. Makes perfect sense. His blog has been typically known to follow the party line. The bad thing is he’s pretty bad at the attack dog thing. His big revelation on a “follow […]

Speaking of congressional candidate news, Baker over at OH02 has a post up about Steve Black getting in the race - complete with audio from another one of his exclusive interviews (scooping even other candidates, which twists Jim Parker’s drawers a bit). That’s some Baker right there.
There’s also good stuff over there […]

Email from Earl Britt tonight announcing the launch of johnforcongress.com. Paperwork filing and fundraising apparatus online is being set up. The site is sparse as newly launched ones usually are. Look for more coming out of the 16th soon. I look for John to run a really good race. Good […]