BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

It was so easy!  Go along to get along, vote for capitulation and call it compromise.  Piece of cake!  In fact, all that work involved in giving a rat’s ass and fighting the good fight and protecting and defending the Constitution seems silly in retrospect.  Just show up, vote whatever’s easy and then forget about [...]

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Common sense and civil liberties have prevailed in the Senate - by one vote.

A proposed amendment to outlaw flag burning was voted down in the Senate

Tuesday, the Senate voted down a joint resolution proposing a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting flag burning and other “desecration.”This appalling waste of time and money was, of course, a sheerly political [...]

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From the Federal Flag Code, Title 4, Section 8 (k):
The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
Once Symbolic, Flag Amendment Close to Passage
Debate on another in a series of measures that aim to please [...]

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The Senate Telecommunications bill has been modified in what is supposed to be a “compromise” on Net Neutrality. The bill now would prohibit telephone and cable companies from blocking a user’s access to individual web sites as part of an “Internet Consumer Bill of Rights.”
That’s all well and good as far as it [...]

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If you’re wandering about DC this week, watch out for Very Serious People, dressed in government drag, walking into traffic while all their attention is fixed on a scrap of paper.
These are Republicans who ride the tiger of the Religious Wrong Right and who are studying the 10 Commandments, skeered silly they’ll fall into the [...]

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So the House rejected the notion of a schedule for withdrawal from Iraq. Aren’t you shocked?!? Couldn’t you just plotz!?!
No, of course not. You knew it would go this way. The GOP engineered it to go this way. It’s a nonbinding resolution strictly for political reasons. A way to [...]

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My man in the 2004 Democratic primaries was Dennis Kucinich. I didn’t really expect him to get the nomination because the Democratic Party was so afraid of looking like a bunch of, well, Democrats, it did its best to convey the image of being GOP-Lite.
Kooch always did tell it like it is and that [...]

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After many requests (okay, two) from all over the country (my mom in Wisconsin and my sister in California), I am reviving the Angels & Assholes scorecard. Let’s start with yesterday’s vote to make English the national language. (S.2611, S.Amdt. 4064)
34 Angels voted NAY
63 Assholes voted YEA
3 Weasels failed to vote
How did [...]

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Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) told her caucus members during their weekly closed meeting Wednesday “that impeachment is off the table; she is not interested in pursuing it,” spokesman Brendan Daly said. (Read the rest)
Impeachment would be sweet revenge, indeed. It would be justice. It would be a righteous dragging of the Decider [...]

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