• Politics, Schmolitics

    Bean On Iran

    I keep finding interesting little factnuggets at Progressive Punch. After the Dems won control of Congress, my Congresscritter Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL8, a former Repub district) still sided with the Bush administration on contingency plans for a possible military operation in Iran in in 2007. ProgressivePunch : War & Peace—Relations with Iran / Bean, Melissa WHAT: All issues : War & Peace : Relations with Iran WHO: All members : IL, District 8 : Bean, Melissa Click below to see the vote description. WAR & PEACE—Relations with Iran Roll Call 364. Fiscal 2008 Defense authorization (H.R. 1585); Rep. Robert Andrews…

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    The GOPs Misplaced Rage – The Daily Beast

    Bruce Bartlett’s thoughtful piece has been making the rounds. The GOPs Misplaced Rage – The Daily Beast David Horsey: We Want Our Country Back In my opinion, conservative activists, who seem to believe that the louder they shout the more correct their beliefs must be, are less angry about Obama’s policies than they are about having lost the White House in 2008. They are primarily Republican Party hacks trying to overturn the election results, not representatives of a true grassroots revolt against liberal policies. If that were the case they would have been out demonstrating against the Medicare drug benefit,…