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PUBLIC MARKS from itsatrap with tag Senate

September 2007

Mickey Mouse will have his revenge on Iran

So the Senate caved into Lieberman's wish to attack Iran at will with a bipartisan vote. Oh, I know, it's non-binding and not an actual declaration of war, and they amended some of the language. But you should know how these things go by now. This has given Bush the political justification, however flimsy, to execute 'Operation Bomb the Ragheads II: Git that Amadajad Feller.'

June 2007

GOP quietly giddy about New Orleans' black diaspora

So Bob Novak snidely suggests in his latest political report. Talking about upcoming US Senate races, Novak has this to say about Louisiana, which he feels is the GOP's "best pickup opportunity" in 2008...

Freudenthalian slip

Ruh roh, another fundie poseur doc in the Senate: 'Republican John Barrasso, a surgeon and conservative Wyoming legislator, became the country's newest U.S. senator Friday, replacing the late Craig Thomas. Barrasso ... left no doubt that he will be a conservative voice in Washington.' Damn, and we'd just gotten rid of Bill Frist too...