Chuck Todd tweeted last night: WH announced that POTUS ordered the Patriot Act renewal to be signed by the “autopen”; so, yes, it was robosigned Reason given for robosigning via autopen: Patriot Act expires midnight tonight, so as to not have gap, either robosigned or flown to him Now, Todd was writing in the early [...]

This is the disrespect in which our Congress holds our Constitution: they will continue to chip away at the Fourth Amendment, by passing yet another extension of the PATRIOT Act without addressing the clear abuses identified since the last extension. US Congress leaders have agreed to extend for four years an array of counter-terrorism surveillance [...]

As you’ve likely heard, the Chamber of Commerce has officially endorsed government welfare to limit corporate risk. (Again.) The head of the United States Chamber of Commerce said Friday that his group is not yet lobbying against legislative efforts to raise BP’s liability cap, viewing the issue as not yet “ripe.” He signaled, however, that [...]

This letter was sent to Pelosi and Boehner today, but I can’t help but think the intended recipients are Lindsey Graham and Rahm: The Honorable Nancy Pelosi The Honorable John Boehner Dear Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader Boehner: We write to express our opposition to any legislation or amendments that would restrict the ability of [...]

Surprise, surprise. Just days after Crazy Pete Hoekstra did what Crazy Pete Hoekstra attacked Nancy Pelosi for last year–accused the CIA of lying–he’s now caught in another position he has criticized Pelosi for–not objecting in a briefing to an Administration policy he subsequently claimed to be vehemently opposed to. On Meet the Press this morning, [...]

Obama on Al Punto.

Crazy Pete Hoekstra finds a journalists to help him manufacture political controversy again.

Yes, I’m glad that Arlen “the Scrapple formerly known as Haggis” Specter has come out in support of Nancy Pelosi’s suggestion that CIA misled her in her September 2002 briefing.

“The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to — I was about to say ‘candid’; that’s too mild — to honesty,” Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a lunch address to the American Law

The WaPo is apparently in the business of reprinting ignorant challenges without any fact-check or context.

How much money do you think Republican Congressmen had to pay John Doolittle to encourage the scandal-plagued Congressman to retire after this term?