Dollars and Nonsense
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: For $700 billion, I'd sure want to know what I was getting. So what is the American economy getting for its $700 billion bailout? Well, it's kind of like a bazooka, or a mytholigical sea monster, or something like that.
Down the Tubes
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Today is a special day for Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK). Not only is it his first 24 hours in ignomy as the first sitting senator in over 20 years to be indicted on federal charges, it's also the one-year anniversary of the FBI raid on his Alaska home.
Hit the Road, Joe
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Are the Senate Dems finally going to toss Joe Lieberman overboard? We ask the question in today's episode of TPMtv and look at one way grassroots Dems across the country may be able to give the final push that sends him over the edge.
Marianas: I'm Loving It!
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: As we've been reporting, Colorado senate candidate Bob Schaffer (R) says we should remodel our national immigration policy on that of the Mariana Islands -- a program notorious for child prostitution, forced abortions, beatings, slavery, twelve hour days and sex trafficking. Now it turns out he went on a Jack Abramoff junket to the islands and came back saying it was A-OK! We look at the latest in today's episode of TPMtv.
"Progress" Report
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Seven months after the start of the "surge," General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday to update senators on the "fragile and reversible" progress in Iraq. We have the highlights.
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...
Lieberman's Bomb Iran Bill
Did you hear about the War on Iran Authorization bill the Senate is going to vote on perhaps as early as today? No, that's not how it's getting billed. But that's what the 'Kyl-Lieberman' amendment is. In fact, the supporters of going to war against Iran are using exactly same strategy with this amendment that they did to lay the ground work for the Iraq War.
Jumping Ship
Forget about the presidential race. How are things looking for the GOP in the House and Senate for 2008? Not so good, at least when you add up the number of Republicans retiring and leaving once secure seats open to possible Democratic takeover.
Committee member Charles Ramsey to the Senate Armed Services Committee: The Iraqi National Police Force should be disbanded because they (a) lack the trust to (b) perform their jobs. Um, does this apply to 1600 Pennsylvania?
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