Someone needs to make this a banner issue against the GOP during the next campaign cycle.
The U.S. Senate voted on an amendment which was proposed to the recent Defense Appropriations Act which would prohibit awarding of funds to any contractor which requires employees to sign mandatory arbitration clauses for specific claims.
This amendment was offered specifically [...]

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Time again to call bullshit on John McCain.
This morning, this AP headline came across my radar:

McCain: Obama must drop health care public option
WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama will have to drop proposals for a government-run health insurance option if he hopes to reach congressional agreement on health-care reform.
… The Arizona Republican [...]

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Seriously, leave him alone.
Attention whores feed on attention. If you want to make the attention whore a bigger whore, then keep giving attention.
Give attention to Limbaugh and you feed the whore. Give attention to Limbaugh and you give his ideas the tacit approval that they are worthy of discussion.
Limbaugh isn’t worth the attention, because his [...]

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During the 2008 presidential election, conservative ideologues insisted that Obama’s tenuous association with William Ayers was worthy of unending scrutiny and fantastically hysterical nightmare scenarios. Sarah Palin insisted that we know more about someone who “pals around with terrorists.” It was critical.
Now we have Michael Steele, chairman of the GOP, insisting that his recent dust-up [...]

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Over the last few days, there has been much ado about the state and future of the Republican party and the “conservative” politics it holds so dear. However, I would like to note that there is a significant difference between the classic conservative politics of people like Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley—people whose political [...]

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For all the hullabaloo the last week over how to bail out the financial markets, and amid John McCain’s “Country Clubs First” meme, and Bush’s dire warning and call to stabilize the markets before things get much worse, you’d think that today would be the day that Congress would pull together after a weekend’s worth [...]

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Places everyone! Places! We’ve got a show to run here.
Barbara Curtis over at the Christian Science Monitor is ginning up a real life controversy over the Sarah Palin hullabaloo. Unfortunately, Barbara is missing the “real life” part of the controversy:

Sarah Palin can have it all
Bluemont, Va. – The five children. The newborn diagnosed with Down [...]

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