Look! Up in the sky, it's a bird . it's a plane. Nope, it's Super Congress. Where caped, congressional crusaders will wage the battle between good and evil far above the heads of mere mortals and senior citizens living on Social Security. It will be where the "leaders" of both parties (and they're not leaving…
republicans and democrats, blacks whites people of all races were doing the right thing in setting the stage for the confederate battle flag to come down house republicans were attempting to lift it up and permit it to be displayed on national park service land. speaker boner says it s an attempt to get a directive from the national park service. do you buy that? not at all. it s inaccurate. there could be no legitimate debate about what was occurring. three amendments two offered by representative jared huffman from california earlier this week. one offered by myself. collectively to prohibit the use of federal funds, in connection to the purchase sale display on national parkland. there was then an e fort less than 24 hours later to roll back
maryland. you voted with speaker boner and leader pelosi to keep the nsa program going. but, you know, you ve probably seen these numbers our new msnbc news wall street journal poll showing 56% of americans are now worried these programs may go too far. if you look back at the numbers in 2006 that s up more than 10 percentage points. how then do you here, congressman defend these programs to your constituents based on this development? well, richard, i speak as somebody who opposed the re-authorization of the patriot act because i believed that we should reform these programs. but the vote yesterday was to simply cut off the program entirely. and i think many of us believed that the better approach to this was to gather all the facts, all the information and make the changes in a deliberate way, not simply going cold turkey because of the possible negative national security ramifications.