Mrs Pelosi’s Swamp

Mrs. Pelosi has a plan    Charlies Rangel is working on the lergest tax incresae in history,  Alison Fitzgerald, Bloomberg:

Rangel yesterday offered a sweeping tax overhaul, which he dubbed “the mother of all reforms.” The proposal would raise taxes

—  WASHINGTON — George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson.  In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ.

Well,

You’d like to think that one place our nations laws would be respected would be in the Halls of Congress.    Not if you are a democrat, who planned to flout our nation’s immigrantion laws by using illegal aliens as props.  

I note with some interest today that Michael Yon has released another one of his columns from Iraq.

America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are

Jake Tapper, ABC News, reports on the opening day of Wabbit season: 

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., the dean of the New York congressional delegation, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, longtime political booster of Sen. Hillary Clinton,

Mark Steyn today:

Last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as

The Wall Street Journal, today, reminds us of the massacre that wasn’t;

The incident at Haditha–or the massacre, as it is often called–is due for a wholesale rethinking. The allegations are that in 2005 U.S. Marines went on a killing

Another example of our reading leftie blogs so you don’t have to.

Look what we found this monring, with the help of Memeorandum, at Firedog Lake

Tim Starks of Congressional Quarterly reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) plans

In the thirty eight years since Woodstock, Free Love has morphed into government hand-outs, or such was Mrs. Clinton’s intent.   Robert Novak, Washington Post:

Will the Democratic-controlled Senate approve a $1 million earmark to celebrate Woodstock-era baby boomers, carved

Patrick O’Connor over at The Politico ( BBCT: Memeorandum) is reporting that former speaker Dennis Hastert is planning on announcing that he’s going to be leaving the house later this year.

In looking at the timing of all of

One of the people noticing the democrats problems with the FISA legislation is Michelle Malkin. She properly labels at the FISA obstruction legislation.  She says:

Question of the night comes from Paul Mirengoff at Power Line in the wake of

Megan McArdle yesterday noting the story that we talked about here today,  and the press refuses to talk about at all;

 Thanks to George Bush’s amazing deficit reduction plan, the budget deficit is now only 1.2% of GDP. If

Froomkin:

A defensive President Bush insisted that he was still relevant this morning in a news conference dominated by his bitter complaints about the Democratic Congress.

Asked how he found himself vetoing a children’s health insurance bill that had passed

LOWELL -(Lowell Sun)- Democrat Niki Tsongas of Lowell defeated Republican James Ogonowski of Dracut today to capture the 5th District congressional seat vacated by Marty Meehan earlier this year.With 195 of 195 precincts reporting, Tsongas captured 54,363 votes, or

Adrian Kingsly Hughes over at ZDnet hits very close to where I live, since I’m a end user support type:

 On Friday I posted briefly about yet another potential problem with Windows Update (my ZDNet blogging colleague Mary Jo Foley