November 18, 2006 – 8:01 pm
From his radio address In the Senate, the Democratic Majority has presented three principles to guide our legislative way. First, bipartisanship. In the weeks and months ahead, we intend to reach out to President Bush and our Republican colleagues in Congress. The last four years-in which Republicans controlled the House, the Senate and the White […]
November 18, 2006 – 12:30 pm
With a hat tip to Michelle M (blogroll me, lass! :)), a disturbing story from right down the road A Spanish teacher at Smithfield-Selma Senior High School resigned this week after handing out an assignment that some students and parents said teaches hate. Khalid Chahhou, who was in his first year of teaching in Johnston […]
November 18, 2006 – 7:57 am
And a few things seem to be missing (from CNN) After years playing defense, liberal advocacy groups see the Democrats' takeover of Congress as a long-awaited chance to convert some of their goals into law. Their wish lists include workplace protections for gays, a broader hate-crimes law, and a multi-pronged push to reduce unplanned pregnancies. […]
November 17, 2006 – 7:26 pm
November 17, 2006 – 3:43 pm
She lost on Murtha, now, possibly on Jane Harman (from The Hill) Eighteen members of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of conservative House Democrats, wrote Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday imploring her to choose Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) to chair the House Intelligence Committee next year. "Congresswoman Harman has served as Ranking Member of […]
November 17, 2006 – 11:28 am
Another Democrat offers up his plan for surrender On Election Day, the American people weighed in at the ballot box: They want to get our troops out of Iraq. Voters rejected the president’s failed Iraq policy, putting Democrats in charge of Congress and responsible for setting a new direction for Iraq, and, most importantly, for […]
November 17, 2006 – 7:24 am
And a Happy Friday, all you neocons out there. Drop the MEDS (Midterm Election Depression Syndrome), and get ready for two years of us ripping the majority party!!! The Murtha Monkey brings you something special about Dem Speaker Nancy Pelosi's nominee, since lost, for Majority leader: Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) told a group of Democratic moderates on […]
November 16, 2006 – 5:56 pm
We have seen how pleasant the nutroots folks were when VP Cheney was in the hospital in Denver, what happened when The Gipper passed on, when Laura Ingraham got breast cancer, etc, and so on. Now, this is how the Huff Puff, one of the biggest repository of left wing nutjobs, responds to the "Tornado's […]
November 16, 2006 – 5:11 pm
They do hate the military, they just donn't like when you say that. It is actions like San Francisco banning Junior ROTC that prove that they do, along with actions like this CHAPEL HILL – The day after news that a soldier from Orange County had been killed by a bomb in Iraq, protesters marched […]
November 16, 2006 – 10:49 am
Wait, here it comes Voters want a new direction on Iraq and expect a Democratic victory to bring troop reductions: 40 percent expect a decreased number of troops and 31 percent want the removal of all troops, according to the MoveOn poll. (SEE NOTE 2 below). Nonetheless, voters remain conflicted about the pace of reductions […]
