• February 13, 2012

susan collins

Everybody’s favorite airport moment is when you get to play “TSA coed strip poker webcam,” amiright? First the shoes and belts come off. Then you must unzip your computer bag and place your bulging hard-drive on the conveyor belt (sex escalator). After this, you get to pose naked for the fat guy sitting behind the [...]

Harry Reid is going to finally try to get a cloture vote passed to be able to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell today some day soon, at long last, but there’s a very good chance it will fail, because our modern democracy is so advanced that it doesn’t work and can’t rule on matters of [...]

Today the Senate will vote on whether to begin talking about the possibility of maybe repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Don’t get too excited, because nobody expects this cataclysmic measure to actually pass. And why should it? The Senate is not an appropriate place to be having these sorts of discussions. But thankfully Lady Gaga [...]

The cloture vote, it has happened! It passed with 60 votes and those 60 votes included Former Teabagger Hero/New Ted Kennedy Scott Brown. And that means the Senate will vote “for reals” on the Financial Regulation legislation, today. Is Scott Brown turning out to be kind of awesome? Compared to alleged Democrats like Ben Nelson [...]

We all know that boy-crazy Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has only orchestrated this whole nomination business to get some facetime with distinguished older gentlemen in hopes of finally finding “the one.” But only Republican hero Scott Brown realized the leverage this gave Senators over the future judicial dictator, and he used all of his [...]