Posts tagged with 'congress'

TPMtv: Stonewall Johnson

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MAY 27 2008 03:40 PM | PERMALINK

Stonewall Johnson

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Stonewall Johnson was born on January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He went on to become one of the most revered Confederate generals of the American Civil War. Wait, that's Stonewall Jackson. Stonewall Johnson was born on March 21, 1951 in Washington D. C. and went on to become one of the most controversial and obstinate Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose testimony before Congress has given him the inside track for this...
TPMtv: GOP House of Cards

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MAY 14 2008 12:15 PM | PERMALINK

GOP House of Cards

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Last night the Democrats snatched up the open House seat in Mississippi's heavily Republican 1st district, their third pickup this year of an open seat previously held by a Republican. In each case, the national GOP threw everything they had at holding onto the seat. In today's episode we explore just how bad a sign this could be for the GOP's prospects come November.
Where's My Rebate! Stimulus Plan Passes

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 08 2008 08:08 AM | PERMALINK

If I'm going to get $600 because they want me to start spending money, they better do it soon. Like, before my trip to Budapest in March. So that I can spend my Economic Stimulus Rebate abroad.

Last night Congress sent the much-debated bill to Bush, who indicated he'll give it his John Hancock, so taxpayers should be checking their mailboxes for that six hundred to one thousand two hundred rebate from the government in this time of Economic Hardship. Read: At this rate, I can't even take off work to go...
Ground Hounds: Congressional support for Obama

POSTED BY MARC BOXSER, JANUARY 28 2008 11:25 AM | PERMALINK

Representatives Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Gwen Moore of Wisconsin are big Barack Obama supporters. They were both in Minneapolis Saturday night firing up Minnesota Democrats for victory in November. They both shared their thoughts on what Obama's South Carolina Primary victory means.
Rove Defends Comments on Congress's Role in War

POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, DECEMBER 03 2007 11:25 AM | PERMALINK

As the Bush administration’s inside man, Karl Rove liked to say that his unmoved mover status in D.C. is pretty much the stuff of myth and legend. Well, now that he’s spending more time in front of the cameras than behind the scenes, it may also be the stuff of history.

So, Charlie Rose ate it up when Rove made his bombshell (and by that I mean dumb) statement about Congress rushing ahead of the Bush administration to authorize war on Iraq. But the story has not gone down so well in...
Code Pink runs Congress

POSTED BY MARC BOXSER, OCTOBER 25 2007 10:29 AM | PERMALINK

Yesterday Dana Perino suggested Code Pink (the women's anti-war activist group) runs Congress. As you can see from the vid, they're really running the show.