I didn’t hear the interview, but it sounds like freshman Senator Richard Burr (NC) did not have kind words for Rep. DeLay’s recent behavior in a recent interview, considering they’re both Republicans: “To attack the judicial process and the system the way he has is inappropriate.” Courtesy of EdCone.com
Wait, isn’t he a Republican? :) I’m really wondering what the Republican Party thinks of “supportive” organizations like Move America Forward attacking their own Senators. Or perhaps this is the way the Republican Party is working now? After all, Swift Boat Veterans have to be kept occupied somehow…
One would think that weather forecasting is a common good that would most easily be coordinated through the federal government, but apparently Sen. Rick Santorum doesn’t think so. He has introduced a bill designed to make sure the National Weather Service can’t publicly share information that would be in competition with private companies such as AccuWeather and The Weather Channel. While I can’t help but admit the fact that Senator Santorum is at least philosophically consistent on this bill, I would still have to disagree with the bill itself. If the NWS hasn’t stopped anyone from starting a private weather forecasting company, then why would we restrict the information from the people who paid for it: You and me. (Well, ignoring the fact that our lower taxes and increased expenditures have led to a budget deficit, which means that quite a bit of our government’s funding is coming from China buying Treasury bonds.) ...
He does research? On the Internet?!? Why doesn’t he just pay his wife and daughter to do it? :) Seriously, how long will DeLay be in the House? If I had his track record, I’d be afraid of offending the judiciary.
Apparently the Ohio government has invested some of its funds in rare coins. The Toledo Blade has the story. Since 1998, Ohio has invested millions of dollars in the unregulated world of rare coins, buying nickels, dimes, and pennies. Controlling the money for the state? Prominent local Republican and coin dealer Tom Noe, whose firm made more than $1 million off the deal last year alone. Link courtesy of EdCone.com
Tom, Tom, Tom… Why do you protest so much? :)
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is speaking at a telecast organized by the Family Research Council. The event is set around the theme that using filibusters to block President Bush’s judicial nominees is acting against people of faith. It’s all “sick, dark and demented.” ;) Just to make it clear, I also find the equating of “people of faith” with “supports Bush’s nominees” to be offensive, but in a political, religious sort of way, not a “The culture war is starting!” sort of way. Are the folks speaking at this event wrong? Yep. Are they calling for a culture war against the judiciary? If they aren’t now, they have been. But can we act like this is shocking behavior, never before seen? ...
A column by David Folkenflik on what major news organizations really care about. …in an increasingly corporate world, media companies are acting more like companies than they are the champions of free speech and the public good. Link courtesy of Romenesko
A quote from Newt Gingrich about Tom Delay: “DeLay’s problem isn’t with the Democrats. DeLay’s problem is with the country.” :) Link courtesy of EdCone.com
Donald Rumsfeld warns the Iraqi government to not politicize the military. Yep, that’s our Rumsfeld.