Showing posts with label Republicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republicans. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
CIA Head: Cheney Wishing US Be Attacked
CIA Head: Cheney Wishing US Be AttackedWASHINGTON - CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."
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No surprise there.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Texas Lawmaker Rigs the Law... for HIMSELF!
Want to rig the game? Get elected
By BUD KENNEDY
The Texas Legislature is supposed to help us.
But instead, one lawmaker, who is also the leader of the Texas Conservative Coalition, is just helping himself.
Faced with losing his Gulf vacation home because it now stands on public beach, East Texas state Rep. Wayne Christian crafted a last-minute rider allowing him and a few neighbors to rebuild and defy a 50-year state law.
Generally, Texas beaches belong to Texans. If you build at the beach’s edge, then you take the risk of a Hurricane Ike moving the beach.
Yet Christian, a Republican representing Nacogdoches and Center, rewrote Texas law so he and a handful of Crystal Beach neighbors — but not folks on Galveston Island or anywhere else along the Gulf — could keep their homes.
Basically, the guy rigged the law for himself and Crystal Beach.
Christian had already earned a much-deserved place on the Texas Monthly "Ten Worst Legislators" list released Friday.
The magazine criticized him for trying to tinker with Travis County prosecutors’ power over ethics investigations and for defying a bill ending stealth campaign ads.
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By BUD KENNEDY
The Texas Legislature is supposed to help us.
But instead, one lawmaker, who is also the leader of the Texas Conservative Coalition, is just helping himself.
Faced with losing his Gulf vacation home because it now stands on public beach, East Texas state Rep. Wayne Christian crafted a last-minute rider allowing him and a few neighbors to rebuild and defy a 50-year state law.
Generally, Texas beaches belong to Texans. If you build at the beach’s edge, then you take the risk of a Hurricane Ike moving the beach.
Yet Christian, a Republican representing Nacogdoches and Center, rewrote Texas law so he and a handful of Crystal Beach neighbors — but not folks on Galveston Island or anywhere else along the Gulf — could keep their homes.
Basically, the guy rigged the law for himself and Crystal Beach.
Christian had already earned a much-deserved place on the Texas Monthly "Ten Worst Legislators" list released Friday.
The magazine criticized him for trying to tinker with Travis County prosecutors’ power over ethics investigations and for defying a bill ending stealth campaign ads.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Illustrated Guide to GOP Scandals
This fun little dealybob was put together by Slate.com and you can find the link to it here. I don't think it's been updated since May 2007 but it makes a good start. And it is funny... in its own way.
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