Boys Club
- So the Giant Stimulus Bill of Doom heads to conference, but guess what’s missing? Women. There are no women on the conference committee for this bill. Wonder if the room full of men will restore the cuts to programs that employ women? (Writes Like She Talks/Dollars and Sense)
- Republican House Whip Eric Cantor’s response to AFSCME ads targetting Republicans for opposing the stimulus: a profanity-laced video describing the unions as a goon squad. Stay classy, Eric Cantor. (The Plum Line)
- Happy Birthday to Sarah Palin, the woman who helped give us President Barack Obama! I was going to get her a year’s subscription to all the newspapers she reads, except she reads all of them. (Los Angeles Times/You Tube)
- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been selected to exorcise respond to President Obama’s big speech to Congress, scheduled for February 24. (TIME/New York Times)
- John McCain (who?) today was the only member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to vote against giving Washington DC a vote in Congress because he is a maverick my friends. The full hypocrisy of this vote, however, can only be explained in blockquote form:
McCain was the only one of them who voted nay, and he gave two reasons. The first was that the proposed compromise that would give D.C. voting rights while giving Utah a fourth seat in Congress was unfair to other fast-growing states. The second was that McCain didn’t want to pass a bill that constitutional scholars are still tussling over “and then have the Supreme Court decide whether or not it’s constitutional.”
This is a problem. What would happen if — a totally random example here — a senator introduced a campaign finance law that, according to many constitutional scholars and the president of the United States, violated the First Amendment? What if the Supreme Court had to decide whether or not the law was constitutional? That would be crazy. A Republican who wrote a law like that probably couldn’t even win Indiana.
Heh, indeedy. (Washington Independent)
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