Republicans Nixing CNN/You Tube? Who Can Blame Them?

Apparently, Patrick Ruffini is worried. I think, needlessly.

Congress was created to legislate, not investigate. Their utter lack of legislating anything other than earmarks and a minimum wage hike that “gave a raise” to less than a half-million $5.15 an hour people, most of them part-timers.

Don Surber

A “biparistan” bill is a democrat sponsored bad idea with a useful idiot republican as a obstensive co-sponsor.   Not content to attempt to strangle free speech on the public airwave, democrats are now proposing to regulate private speech.  Adam Thomas

The mind is such a terrible thing to waste, and with Glenn Greenwald there is a lot of wasted gray matter.  Alas

Greenwald loses it:

One of the lowest and most dishonest tactics is to attempt to smear and

When Eliot Spitzer played the Sheriff of Wall Street, his targets lacked the ability to fight back.  Well Spitzer has learned that his new target, State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, has the power to fight back and intends to

James Taranto has an op ed up as of yesterday that will interest those of you who noted our posting on the Joe Bruno/Elliot Spitzer/Andrew Cuomo thing here in NY, yesterday.

Culture of Corruption
Imagine if top aides to President

Spitzer denies any knowledge of what his closes aide was doing, which seems improbable.

But hang on. Even he didn’t know, isn’t this the same guy who wants corporate executives held criminally liable for the mistakes of their underlings, even

By way of McQ, we see John Bambernek at Blog Critics… well, I’ll let him say it:

Today I filed an Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against Kos Media, LLC., better known as DailyKos.com.  I allege that they

Who is the 14% supporting Congress?

Jed Babbin says, it’s not as good for the Democrats as the 14% would seem to suggest.

Some of them must be people who are, um, a bit too busy to take pestiferous calls

The Sister didn’t bother to watch the debate.   Apparently CNN didn’t bother either.   The debate had a serious lack of  questions.

If New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, were go on American Idol, what song would he sing?  Easy, “I Shot the Sheriff.”   The New York Times:

ALBANY, July 23 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer indefinitely suspended his communications director

In the Washington Post, Bob Novok, writes of Dirty Harry Reid’s efforts to turn back the calander on ear mark reform:

When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid picked up his ball and went home after his staged all-night session

The Times (UK) is  reporting al Qaeda “rebellion from the ranks:”

Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of

From Fox’s Political Grapevine:

A follow-up on Thursday’s item about that so-called “mystery” earmark request from John Murtha: the Pennsylvania Democrat was awarded $1 million for the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure — which it turns out does not