By PUMA Pundit on June 26, 2009
This boondoggle of a bill passed the House of Reps 219-212 with a margin of 7 votes, 8 of which came from the GOP. If this bill becomes law, the cost of energy is expected to increase as electricity producers and industrial plants pay for increased efficiency, move toward greater use of renewable energy, pay [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged American Clean Energy and Security Act, cap and trade, HR 2454 |
By PUMA Pundit on May 7, 2009
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire… Seems Nancy Pelosi has been lying for 18 months. Is she going to apologize and resign? Very unlikely… Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged Abu Zubaydah, al-qaeda, Capitol Hill, Central Intelligence Agency, cia, EIT, enhanced interrogation technique, Nancy Pelosi, porter goss, torture |
By PUMA Pundit on April 9, 2009
It seems the honeymoon phase of Obama’s presidency is rapidly coming to an end. Balking at his $75.5 Billio funding requests for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congressional Democrats are openly declaring their defiance…WSJ “I can’t imagine any way I’d vote for it,” said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a California Democrat and leader in the [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged afghanistan, barack obama, Congressional Progressive Caucus, iraq, jim McGovern, john conyers, lynn woolsey |
By PUMA Pundit on April 7, 2009
While I am in complete support of lifting the embargo against Cuba, I think Obama and his cronies are playing a very dangerous game in their attempt to force America to the left… We understand that many members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have sympathies for socialism and Fidel Castro, but to visit Cuba, [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged barbara lee, bobby rush, congressional Black caucus, cuba, fidel castro, laura richardson, socialism
By PUMA Pundit on March 25, 2009
How the cookie crumbles. So much for the transparency and accountability that Barack Obama promised. It seems Chris Dodd’s wife, Jackie Clegg Dodd was a director at AIG. RCP No wonder Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) went wobbly last week when asked about his February amendment ratifying hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to executives [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged aig bonuses, chris dodd, jackie clegg dodd, kevin rennie, Treasury Department |