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Rep. Miller causing a ruckus


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 […]

Boehner’s Boner Over Pelosi Trip Unwarranted Says Hobson


Typical of these partisan hypocrite hacks. The uproar over Pelosi’s trip to Syria was well documented - and Republicans making the trip was conveniently ignored by most of the press, as noted here. Think Progress notes that David Hobson (A Republican from Ohio like Boehner) never got a call from Boehner criticizing his […]

Mo’ Money From Mo’ Bodies! O’neill To Cure LaTourette’s Syndrome


(ht Jill) Bill “No Money From Nobody” O’neill might have a new slogan when he runs for Congress against Steve LaTourette. More like “Mo’ Money From Mo’ Bodies!” He’s taken off the judicial shackles by resigning from his Court of Appeals seat in order to raise money to defeat LaTourette.
“I’m running […]

House Approves Weak-Ass Pension Bill


The US House finally, and unanimously (who is gonna vote against THIS one?), voted to stop paying pensions to its members who are convicted of certain relevant felonies (e.g. bribery).

Unfortunately, this doesn’t cover those already convicted representatives like Bob Ney and, I assume, Youngstown’s own flamboyant (i.e. crazy) James Traficant.

Also- the bill passed by the […]