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Funny or Die came out with a new video this week for Main Street Brigade supporting the proposed Consumer Finance Protection Agency that old Washington pillars on both sides of the aisle don't want.  The CFPA would regulate credit card and mortgage companies in an effort to curb abuses by big banks and finance companies.  All of the crew from Saturday Night Live volunteered to help get the word out.  Have a look (it's the...

President Obama, in essentially a solo performance, took on the entire Republican leadership yesterday for almost 7 hours.  I was able to watch much of it, and coverage of the times that I missed.  What struck me was his depth of knowledge, not only of the pending health care reform bills, but also the insurance and health care delivery industries.  After over a year of posturing, obfuscation, distortion, and obstruction by the Republicans, it was...

Republicans Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and the entire Fox Nation have been screaming at the tops of their lungs that the Stimulus bill passed a year ago "can't work", "isn't working", "won't work", "didn't work", etc., etc., even before the plan was put into effect.  Unfortunately for them, after only a year, reality is just a little bit different from the hysterics coming from these sources as well as Rush Limbaugh, Chairman of...

It's well known that the Republicans have been 100% aligned against the President and the Democrats in both the Senate and the House since the Inauguration.  They've opposed every major piece of legislation and every single effort to spur the economy, bring jobs, reform health care as well as medicare, and even voted against defense appropriations, the sacred cow of the GOP.  Recently, they went so far as to co-sponsor bi-partisan legislation, then vote against...

I heard something on NPR this morning that irked me, to say the least.Since PBO took office over a year ago, there are still some 200 or so positions that are to be filled by his appointments. He has named people to these positions--don't misunderstand--but apparently there seems to be a little problem in getting the various Director-level folks into these positions. The little problem is ... partisan politics on the part of the Republicans.Positions...

As I write this, I want to establish that I am only talking about other people's opinions and not my own. As a Clear Lake resident, I am around people in the space industry on a daily basis. Some people stand in awe at astronauts while those of us in Clear Lake kind of yawn. However, we are acutely aware of important the space industry is to our immediately community. I would harbor the guess...

I did a little tour this afternoon of the conservative blogosphere to get a feel for their impressions of the single-handed whipping that President Obama gave the entire House GOP caucus at their conference in Baltimore yesterday.Below is the summary of my findings:...

Update 2:  Ooo. Ooo.  There's more.  From Juanita Jean, Obama in a smackdown of sissy boy and liar, Jeb Hensarling.  Video below.Updated:  Fox News cut from live coverage of the debate 20 minutes before it was over because the President was handing the Repubs their own heads.  A GOP representative told Luke Russert of NBC that "it was a mistake to keep the cameras running like that."  More below the post.In an entertaining session yesterday...

Tonight, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito violated decorum and decades-long tradition by publicly reacting to comments from the President of the United States during the State of the Union speech.  President Obama openly (and rightly) criticized the activist ruling by the Court last week that reverses 100 years of legal precedent and opens the floodgates of corporate spending in elections.  We've known for years that Scalia and Thomas were raw right wing partisans, claiming to...

Tonight, returning to his true form that got him elected in the first place, President Obama fought back the tide of unrelenting criticism, inside Washington politics, and a 24/7 campaign of right wing carpet bombing that has been waged since January 20, 2009.  Battered by the unending healthcare debate, inside dealing on both sides of the aisle as well as by his own chief of staff, the President took control of the debate tonight.  He...