Archive for the 'JIm Matheson' Category

Hard Truths, Our Fall From Grace & The Sad, Sad Bush Legacy

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

I’ve grown so weary of being reminded of the disaster that has befallen this country thanks to Bush et. al. I want to lash out and blame everyone who voted for him. They are all around us here.
The Boston legal video reminds us that we must also blame democrats. Jim Matheson is a [...]

Antiwar Victory or Defeat?

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Capitol Hill seems to specialize in taking even the most straightforward issue and converting it into legislation so freakish that there are valid reasons to vote for it or against it. Take for example yesterday’s roll-call vote on HR 1591, the emergency supplemental funding request that included $100 billion for the occupation of Iraq, [...]

“The public is already ahead of us on all this”

Monday, February 26th, 2007

You may recognize the quote above. It’s what Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) has said in practically every interview for the last 15 months, whenever he talks about his plan for redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq. By implication, he is chiding his congressional colleagues and the news media for being too slow [...]

Bad Dreams Courtesy of Jim Matheson

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Now that the Bush administration has asked, and our entire Utah delegation including Jim Matheson have complied, (Matheson also voted to suspend Habeus Corpus) official US policy had been unleashed to pursue a range of interrogation methods made famous in Stalin’s USSR.  Many of these techniques fall under the umbrella of the acronym "CID" for [...]

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