Month: March 2007

A few days ago, my dear friend, thereisnospoon, wrote a most excellent diary declaring, “The big loser today? Senate Republicans”. Now, as much as I love his writing, I must say that he got this one a teensy bit off. Don’t be...

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I am just going from what I observed on C-SPAN2 and not any official tally, but it appears that Republicans Gordon Smith (OR) and Chuck Hagel (NE) voted against Thad Cochran’s amendment to strip troop withdrawals from the...

Update [2007-3-27 17:26:11 by BooMan]: Chuck Hagel and Gordon Smith voted against Thad Cochran’s amendment stripping benchmarks and timetables from the Iraq War Supplemental bill. That means the amendment failed and it...

Old neoconservatives never die.  They don’t fade away either.   John Bolton, the discredited former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has been making the talk show rounds lately.  Last Sunday, he...