• February 13, 2012

committees

PSYCH

Specter Denied Seniority By Double-Crossing Dems

by Sara K. Smith

9:46 am May 6, 2009

Senator Arlen Specter, the newly minted Democrat from Pennsylvania, is officially one of the most junior members of the five Senate committees he sits on, even though he’s a million and a half years old and has spent a million of those years as a senator. The Senate voted unanimously to strip him of his [...]

GREASEBALLS

Barack Obama Secretly Runs Senate Banking Committee!

by Jim Newell

3:46 pm July 23, 2008

Here’s our pal Barack Obama, saying that the Senate Banking Committee — “which is my committee,” he says — passed some bill about something. Problem is, he’s not actually on the Senate Banking Committee at all. Maybe he meant to say he’s on the SENATE LIARS COMMITTEE where he passed a bill about MAKING SHIT [...]