Recently Congress voted to deny regular Army extended leaves-of-absence. The vote was 56(yea, to extend) to 44 (nay, not to extend)*. After that, they convened to decide whether they would collectively condemn an advertisement in a privately owned newspaper- the Moveon.org ad condemning Petraeus.
More Democrats showed up to vote FOR the condemnation than showed up [...]
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George Bush got his FISA law and his extra war money by offering a couple of “compromises” to the spineless Dems. One of them was quick passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program renewal. The renewal bill would increase funding of the bill by $35 billion and cover 4.1 million children by 2012, according [...]
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Lawmakers Vow Not to Force Quick Port Vote
This is because the Bushbots made a pact with Dear Leader over the weekend. They promised to let him have his way if he makes it look like he’s actually looking into the deal (because we’re all supposed to believe that he didn’t know about it until [...]
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