Weekly Address: President Obama on Judge Sotomayors Experience

James Jones: US Safer Under Obama ~ trout boy

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s national security adviser laid out a sweeping rebuttal Wednesday to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s charge that America is less safe under the new administration.
Pointing to increases in defense spending, efforts to get out of Iraq and revamp the strategy for Afghanistan, and a broad campaign to repair the [...]

It Is NOT The President’s Job To Keep Us Safe ~ nannymm

I’d really like to know who decided that it is the job of the president to keep us safe. Who decreed that this was the president’s primary responsibility? Was it Bush and his minions? I don’t remember hearing it before those dreadful years when Chimp was in charge. And I wish I’d never hear [...]

The Patients’ Choice Act ~ dnd

The Republican’s approach to health care reform is summarized in The Patients’ Choice Act outline.
This is a fascinating proposal on a number of levels.  First there are a number of reasonable ideas, some even surprising coming from the right.  For example, the push for universal access to affordable health care conflicts with the right’s argument [...]

Health Care Reform, What Does The GOP Really Want? BrianInNYC

Last week with little fanfare and even less notice the GOP released their answer to the  health care crisis that is plaguing this country.  “The Patients’ Choice Act of 2009” (you can read it here) as to be expected is nothing more than a series of tax cuts and  another layer [...]

5/23/09: Your Weekly Address

Rick Perry Aide: Don’t Open Up GOP Like A "Whorehouse" ~ trout boy

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A comment by a strategist for Gov. Rick Perry that the Republican Party shouldn’t open itself “like a whorehouse” to new voters has infuriated prominent GOP women in Texas and given Perry’s primary rival, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, fuel for the re-election fight.
Perry is trying to distance himself from the [...]