Where’s the Outrage?

President Bush is trying to score points with the insurance companies and with fiscal conservatives.  Sure just last week he asked for $190 Billion for the War in Iraq and Afghanistan.  That was showing fiscal restrain but expanding coverage to more poor children and paying for the increase with a tax on cigarettes is crazy.  I thinking if you are going to veto a bill you should do it out in public.  There should be a big ceremony if you are that proud of vetoing a bill.  There was no ceremony because President Bush knows a ceremony would equal an immediate override by the House and Senate.

Many of the president’s facts are wrong.  Misinformation is one of the biggest tools of the right.  Here are the facts.

Vetoing this bill was wrong.  Simply wrong.

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From WaPo:

President Bush vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have renewed and expanded the state-federal health insurance program for low-income children, delivering on his threat to block a measure he has said is too costly and could lead to excessive government control of the health-care system.

Bush vetoed the measure shortly before leaving this morning on a brief trip here, where he defended the veto in a speech to several hundred business leaders about his efforts to hold the line on federal spending. The White House has sought to make fiscal discipline a broad element of its legislative strategy this fall.  (more…)

 

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Congress is wrong to become involved in the free speech rights of either online advocacy group Moveon.org or radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

It is no surprise that my terrible Senator, John Cornyn of Texas, offered the resolution in the Senate to condemn MoveOn.

Both MoveOn and Mr. Limbaugh have made recent statements seen by some as overly harsh or somehow improper about persons involved with the War in Iraq.

Anyone can say anything they want about the war and about people fighting the war.

Congress condemned MoveOn in a formal vote. That was wrong. Now some in Congress want to condemn Mr. Limbaugh. This is wrong as well.

These issues are fine for campaign speeches.

However, when Congress gets into the business of voting on the merits of what should be protected free speech, we all risk losing our most basic freedoms.

Tags: Blogging issues, Civil Liberty, Domestic Issues, Election 2008, Iraq by Texas Liberal
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2 major sexual harassment cases are in the media. Both involve high profile black men. One, Isiah Thomas and the Clarence Thomas. I find it interesting that Clarence Thomas would crawl out of his hole and say anything about his situation with Anita Hill. His arguments are shallow. What motivation would Anita Hill have to lie?

Anucha Brown Sanders accused Isiah Thomas of being a retard. No really. Calling her a “Bitch” then trying to explain his actions as it was a Black thing? If you read some of the stuff that came out of that trial it was sophomorish. Well, a jury just award Ms. Sanders $11 million. Hopefully, that will send a signal loud and clear to the NBA and other sports franchises around the country.

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From NYT: (op ed by Anita Hill)

ON Oct. 11, 1991, I testified about my experience as an employee of Clarence Thomas’s at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

I stand by my testimony.

Justice Thomas has every right to present himself as he wishes in his new memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son.” He may even be entitled to feel abused by the confirmation process that led to his appointment to the Supreme Court.

But I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me.

In the portion of his book that addresses my role in the Senate hearings into his nomination, Justice Thomas offers a litany of unsubstantiated representations and outright smears that Republican senators made about me when I testified before the Judiciary Committee — that I was a “combative left-winger” who was “touchy” and prone to overreacting to “slights.” A number of independent authors have shown those attacks to be baseless. What’s more, their reports draw on the experiences of others who were familiar with Mr. Thomas’s behavior, and who came forward after the hearings. It’s no longer my word against his. (more…)

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From MSNBC.com:

In an end to a salacious three-week trial, a jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive who endured crude insults and unwanted advances from coach Isiah Thomas.

The jury of four women and three men found Thomas and Madison Square Garden sexually harassed Anucha Browne Sanders, but it decided only MSG and chairman James Dolan should pay for harassing and firing Browne Sanders from her $260,000-a-year job out of spite.  (more…)

 

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