Public Transit Section to Boxer Ammendment on LW Climate Bill
I've taken a look at the transit section of the Boxer amendment to the Lieberman Warner Climate Bill The legalize of these bills can get a little thick so I tried to translate as best I could for the...
View ArticleMark Warner for VP
According to Robert Novak, Mark Warner, who left the Governorship of Virginia with the highest approval rating in the state's history, has told his people that he is being considered for Veep
View ArticleVice Presidential Profile: Mark Warner (Fmr. Gov-VA)
OK, so I lied. Due to overwhelming requests, we're gonna do one more, Mark Warner. This is the thirteenth entry in our series profiling Barack Obama's most likely candidates for the vice presidential...
View ArticleBeyond Cheney's History of Climatic Evolution: Urban Emissions and Federal...
Two new reports and Senate debate on climate change legislation have brought global warming back into the political consciousness.
View ArticleObama in NoVA (Tim Kaine for Vice President)! [UPDATE: News Quotes!]
I was lucky enough to hear about Obama's rally at the Nissan Pavilion in the early afternoon yesterday, despite being in my windowless box at my internship. I was unlucky enough to have to deal with...
View ArticleInverse Double-Super-Secret Rovianism
There's been some discussion, both in the broadcast and online media, of the idea of Barack Obama going ahead and naming a cabinet during the course of this election season, as a means of more...
View ArticleChuck Todd: Warner As VP Would Be Game Changer for Obama
I know everyone has pretty tired of my non-stop promotion of Warner as Obama's VP and I know all of the completely non-persuasive or non-reality arguments against.Before we get to Chuck Todd I guess I...
View ArticleHistory made today in Virginia
Today two new offices opened in Virginia. One is in Tappahannock and the other, The Middle Peninsula Office, is in Gloucester at the York River Crossing Shopping Mall. The Gloucester office is a...
View ArticleWhy Obama needs Warner
Ok I'm off the Sebelius bandwagon, mostly because I have found someone who is a better campaigner.And that's Mark Warner. Not just because he is a multi-millionaire who gets voted by everyone, but...
View ArticleJunior Totaled the Car, But We're Paying
Wall Street is in free fall thanks to eight years of mismanagement under the Bush administration. But presidential candidate, John McCain, continues to trumpet his 45 new reactor plan. He has never...
View ArticleYes, Virginia...and every Red State, you CAN go blue! Repost...with added news
I posted a diary on September 27th about the trend toward Obama that I was seeing in Virginia....just from the people I know about. There's a trend I'm seeing...as I'm sure other states are...
View ArticleI bring glad tidings of early voting
Today I voted absentee-in person (Virginia has no early voting). I was told by the official Students for Obama (local chapter) bigwigs that lines would be long on the 4th, and we didn't have that time...
View ArticleIBEW: One of many unions fighting for EFCA
IBEW locals across Virginia are busy educating and mobilizing members around the Employee Free Choice Act. They’ve been involved in events around the state and in all facets of pushing for passage of...
View ArticleVA-Gov: Mr. Deeds Comes to Washington
OK, not Washington, Arlington, but close enough. Most Arlington residents consider themselves more Washingtonian than Virginian anyway. But despite being an urban liberal oasis in what used to be a red...
View ArticleVA: Governor
Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell announced today that he was endorsed by Sheila Crump Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, local Middleburg business owner and noted...
View ArticleRepublican hypocrites and Democratic enablers
Folks are justifiably happy to learn Thune's "a gun in every glove compartment" amendment just went down to another richly deserved defeat. But it would be more accurate to say this time it fell short...
View ArticleSen. Mark Warner = Olympia Snowe
Listening online to Sen. Mark Warner (D, VA) and he has just summed up his own position as being the same as Olympia Snowe.He is not in favor of a public option, he just wants to "improve competition."...
View ArticleVA: Senator's Webb and Warner
Okay folks, it is time to get serious about the public option and its chances of passing in the Senate. So much focus has been put on the likes of Olympia Snowe, Ben Nelson and Max Baucus. However,...
View ArticleThe Coffee Party, Democracy, and McCain as Bogart
On Thursday, May 6, about 20 members of the Coffee Party, including myself, converged on Capitol Hill to deliver petitions advocating specific actions on Wall Street reform, and to have several...
View ArticleWhen it comes to economic policies, "dem"&"rep" are near meaningless labels
When it comes to core issues relating to living standards, income security, and overall quality of life, the differences today between a generic democrat and republican are so slight that party labels...
View ArticleNPR and Mark Warner helping spread GOP deficit meme...
I was driving to work this morning listening to NPR when I heard that there was going to be a story on how the government should handle the budget deficit. Luckily it was going to be a balanced story...
View ArticleSenate Rankings
Hey everyone! Below are my rankings of US Senators and their placement on the political spectrum. First off though, I should tell you my analysis is based purely on the senators’ actions NOT on their...
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VA-SEN Cartogram Map
I made a cartogram map of the 2014 Virginia Senate results: the number of votes cast in a locality determines its size. Localities where Warner (D) won a plurality/majority are in blue; localities...
View ArticleA Democrat wants to Cut Social Security?
Just today, I read a story about a clueless California Republican who declared that Social Security was a bad idea. After laughing about how hopeless the Republicans have become, I read...
View ArticleDear Democrats, if you vote with Republicans you are enabling Nazis.
Yesterday, democratic senators Kaine and Warner chose to vote with the republicans in the Senate to confirm Trump’s CIA director pick Mike Pompeo. Those affirmative votes lent credibility to a man who...
View ArticleIt Worked
Something that never felt right may end up being explained through the Senate Intelligence Committee. How did most polling show Clinton ahead in key States and then within a narrow time frame see those...
View ArticleForget the collusion, investigate the compromised
So now we have Mark Warner standing next to Burr proclaiming they will pursue a deliberate, serious investigation based on factual evidence. Excluding any questions about on-going collaboration or...
View ArticleCall Sen. Burr's office today and demand he recuse himself from TrumpRussia...
Alright fellow Kossacks and Resisters, the news have started to come out yesterday that Senate’s investigation of Trump’s Russian ties had stalled. The big reason for the investigation not going...
View ArticleBreaking news: Rosenstein, DoJ National Security head meeting in Senate...
xDep. AG Rosenstein & DOJ NatSec Div Chief Boente meeting now with @MarkWarner& @SenatorBurr in secure senate facility nowâ Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 11, 2017 Jim Sciutto is the head...
View ArticleComey Firing Brings Unity to Senate Intelligence Committee
Don't ever piss off those who can take you down in your own party, because if you do your cover in congress disappears. A new politico report signals bad news for Trump as the investigation into his...
View ArticleMark Warner: "the future of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation"...
xThis afternoon, I will speak on the Senate floor about the future of Special Counsel Robert MuellerâÂÂs investigation. Tune in at 4:30 pm: https://t.co/aYOZK0hf4Q— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner)...
View ArticleA Simple Task For The Resistance: Go "Like" Senator Warner's Twitter Thread.
Alarm bells are sounding from a lot of people that dear leader is getting ready to fire Mueller while a group of fascist Republicans on the house intelligence committee are involved in a secret...
View ArticleFeckless Mark Warner says there is evidence of Drumpf treason
Feckless Mark Warner now says he “has seen evidence of Trump treason” and yet he does nothing. He says that Mueller has even more incriminating evidence.Which begs the question — how much longer will...
View ArticleEditorial, March 18, 2018: Trump Sets the Stage for Firing Mueller
Until now, Trump has publicly insisted that he was cooperating fully with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections and related matters. One...
View ArticleThe Review, May 20, 2018 -- King Trump: I Am the State
The Review, May 20, 2018 -- King Trump: I Am the State.King Louis XIV of France supposedly proclaimed L'Etat, c'est moi (“I am the State”). Although that is probably apocryphal, Trump is endeavoring...
View ArticleYakko sings the (new) "Nations of the World".
Next week: Wakko and Dot go to the G20 and sign multiple agreements on climate change and nuclear disarmament, then drop an anvil on the vice-premier of Yugoslavia.
View ArticleNashville bomber's girlfriend warned police he was building bombs in his RV...
Pamela Perry, a girlfriend of Anthony Warner, the 63-year-old white man who set off the explosion in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, early in the morning on Christmas Day, apparently told police last...
View ArticleWomen should be allowed to star in movies that are both Rated R + 3D
Male Lead movies get to be both in 3D + rated R at the same time; all the time, from Dredd (2012) to the upcoming The Batman (2022). But women never get to star in a movie thats both rated R + 3D at...
View ArticleUPDATE: Five 'Centrist' Democrats join Senate GOP in opposing the Omarova...
These tools of corporate banking should be ashamed of themselves: Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.) Mark Warner (D-Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), all members of the Senate Banking Committee, plus Sens....
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5 Action Comedies and an Action/Adventure/Comedy (LOL) to watch.
Medical Police is an Underrated Show, and since Netflix never announced its cancellation, I hope it gets a late release Season 2; like Locke & Key did. Its also a Spin-Off of the Adult Swim series:...
View ArticleHow Movie Studios are undeliberately killing Theaters
First, we have to eliminate 2 Myths:(1). 3D is dead Myth:Well here are the movies that released in 3D in 2K21:Godzilla VS. Kong $468 million (90+% from 3D Screenings)Fast & Furious 9 $726 million...
View ArticleCountdown with Keith Olbermann, Episode 90: WARNOCK WINS, ON TRUMP’S LATEST...
Episode #90 of the Countdown podcast is up. Here’s the summary, with links and an extra dose or two of snark. A-Block (1:27) SPECIAL COMMENT:Eight different things — led by Raphael Warnock’s victory...
View ArticleWhy Did CNN give Trump free airtime for a love-fest with his fans? Robert...
Robert Reich has an explanation for CNN giving sexual predator and criminal defendant Donald J. Trump an hour of free television time to spread his lies and bask in the adulation of his mob of...
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