Archive for June, 2008

John McCain and his temper

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

WOW…  As I was listening to Randi Rhode’s podcast from last Friday, the topic of John McCain’s temper came up.  So, I went out to YouTube.com and put in “John McCain temper” and clicked on the first one that came up.  WOW.  THIS is who the Republicans want to run against Obama?
Check him out by [...]

Filibustering against Telecom Immunity

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Okay – so several of our senators let us down when it came to fighting for the Constitution and against Telecom Immunity (I’m talking to *you*, Senator Obama! – even if there is a loophole to hold the companies criminally accountable).  However, two Senators who should be commended, Senators Dodd and Feingold, plan on filibustering [...]

Gordon Smith can’t run away from his own record

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

This Proud Liberal lives in Oregon, where 4 of the 5 US representatives in my metro area are Democrats.  Gordon Smith, a Republican, is pretending to be a Democrat, and that’s very sad – and he won’t get away with it.
As soon as the 2006 midterm elections were over, and the decimation of Republican warmongers [...]

Telecom Immunity vote AGAIN

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Okay , so we have defeated this in the past, but we have to lean on Congress one more time.  There is another bill that is going to give the telecommunications companies THAT HAVE SPIED ON YOU AND ME immunity from prosecution.
I almost threw up when I read this quote:
“The bill meets the standards the [...]

Was I right?

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

As we sit here at 6PM CST, a bit before the Montana and South Dakota primary results come in, there has been a bit of a surge of superdelegates.  However, now that Obama has gotten to within 11 delegates to clinch the nomination, the tide has stopped.  Looks like the superdelegates will indeed let a [...]