bRight & Early

Some of the commentary offered by Rush Limbaugh yesterday and today, along with some of the discussion regarding the stance taken by McCain, Graham, Collins, and Warner, brought and interesting thought to mind: is there still a struggle of right vs. left, or is the biggest political struggle the right vs. the right?
Let me explain [...]

Lindsey Graham (SC), Susan Collins (ME), and of course John McCain (AZ), joined with Armed Services Committee chairman John Warner (VA) to push through terror-detainee legislation that President Bush has promised to reject.
The president’s measure would go further than the Senate package in allowing classified evidence to be withheld from defendants in terror trials, using [...]

John Kerry, who served in Vietnam by the way, had his cut and run amendment defeated 86-13.
In an 86-13 vote, the Senate turned back a Democratic proposal that would require the administration to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by July 2007, with redeployments beginning this year. A second vote on another Democratic proposal to [...]

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. ~ Flash Rosenberg
ScrappleFace (Scott Ott) Kennedy: Vote Shows 93 Senators Out of Mainstream — “After the Senate voted 93-6 today against setting a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held [...]

Now that the Senate has passed their Amnesty Bill it will go to a House/Senate conference committee to hammer out a compromise (if one is possible).
My question is, what do you think the finished product will look like? (Not what should it look like. That’s a whole different question.) More like the Senate version? [...]

The busy little bees in the Senate confirmed the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit today.
White House aide Brett Kavanaugh won Senate confirmation as an appeals judge Friday after a wait of nearly three years, yet another victory in President Bush’s drive to place a more conservative stamp on [...]

This was quick (Considering how long some judicial nominees have waited).
After hearing assurances he will be independent of the Pentagon, the Senate on Friday easily confirmed Gen. Michael Hayden, a career Air Force man, to head the CIA.
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Hayden, 61, would be the first active-duty or retired military officer to run the spy agency in [...]

I can only watch the debate on the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh in small bites. I was unfortunate enough to click back over while Dick Durbin was speaking. The comment I heard was, “Brett Kavanaugh doesn’t have the poorest credentials of any nominee, just the second worst.” [This is a paraphrase. I wasn't in front [...]

Just watched the vote limiting debate on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on C-SPAN2. The final vote Aye 67 - No 30.

Brian at Iowa Voice points to Senator Grassley, who appears to get it regarding illegal immigration. The Republican Senator from Iowa has published a list of the top ten flaws in the Senate’s immigration bill. One point that should really stick in your craw is number two:
Taxes — Under the bill, illegal aliens get an [...]

The drink that comforteth the brain and heart and helpeth digestion. ~ Sir Francis Bacon
Captain’s Quarter (Ed Morrissey) Post: Hastert, Boehner Have No Clue — “It increasingly appears that the only principle at stake in this debate is the silly pursuit of any and all privileges that any tradition might grant legislators. The assertions by [...]

If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all. ~ David Letterman
Wizbang (Kim Priestap) Why Price Controls Don’t Work — “When prices spike as they have with gasoline, lawmakers who don’t understand the free market think enacting price controls will solve the problem. In reality, price controls do the opposite, as [...]