Jeff Emanuel

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Nothing like that "Culture of Corruption" Bit Coming Back to Bite You, Is There?

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-been-bad-couple-weeks-for-reality.html

March 10, 2008Anybody else remember this outstanding debate moment from 2006 in New Mexico? Heather Wilson -- the Republican, on the left, who is now running for Pete Domenici's open Senate seat ...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/03/ah-memories.html

March 6, 2008 Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the primary sponsor of bipartisan Senate Bill 334 (the “Healthy Americans Act”), has spent the last few days on the stumping for his plan to “fix” ...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/03/sen-ron-wyden-leads-bitripartisan-group.html

March 4, 2008 At the end of last week, the House passed an energy bill that stripped $18 billion in tax credits for research and exploration from five “major integrated oil companies” (Exxon,...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/03/american-companies-get-stiffed-while.html

3/2/2008 "The Texas Democratic Party is warning that its primary night caucuses could be delayed or disrupted after aides to White House hopeful Hillary Clinton raised the specter of an "imminent...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/03/four-days-before-primary-election.html

3/1/2008According to The Birmingham News:In the segment aired Sunday , north Alabama lawyer Jill Simpson said Republican strategist Karl Rove in 2001 asked her take a compromising photo of Siege...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/03/60-minutes-blames-karl-rove-for-fmr-gov.html

2/25/2008I just want to piggyback a bit on the excellent post by Neil Stevens at RedState on erstwhile wannabe mullah Muqtada al Sadr's most recent declaration that his "Mahdi Army" will continue...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/sadr-puts-finger-in-wind-detects-no.html

2/25/2008A friend just returned from a week's vacation with no television or internet (how nice!) and asked what he missed in terms of important topics of discussion -- so, I encapsulated the wee...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/week-in-review.html

2/19/2008"For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I Am Really Proud of My Country," said Michelle Obama, rich lawyer and wife of Barack Hussein (same last name), yesterday.Excuse me? A female, A...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/michelle-obama-thinks-youre-worthless.html

2/18/2008From the Catoosa County News comes this very apt description of the difference between the two sides of the political aisle on health care reform (and on problem-solving as a whole):Amon...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-sentence-pretty-much-says-it-all.html

2/18/2008Reps. Chris "Has Rafael Palmieri gotten his 300th hit yet?" Shays (Rumored to be "R"-CT) and Jim "I'm such a nobody that not even I've heard of me before" Langevin (D-RI) announced their...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/democrat-reps-shays-langevin-come-up.html

2/15/2008Well, the teaser trailer for the May 22-released fourth Indiana Jones film is out. View it for yourself below.Thoughts? My first reaction was: he looks -- and especially sounds -- really...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/indiana-jones-and-kingdom-of-crystal.html

2/15/2008Via wcbstv.com. I don't really have anything to add, except that this guy claims to be Republican and wants to be President. Oh, and he also said the U.S. "has a balance sheet that's sta...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/bloomberg-giving-taxpayers-back-more-of.html

February 15, 2008Update: The plot thickens, as the indispensible Grace-Marie Turner reminds us:Hillary Clinton criticized an individual mandate in 1994, saying, "The individual mandate...makes it...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/hillary-clinton-favors-employing-wage.html

February 15, 2008An association of restaurant operators in San Francisco has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowing the city’s h...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/san-francisco-health-care-tax-appealed.html

February 14, 2008Update: Just moments ago Just before 2 this afternoon, Republican Representatives walked off of the House floor in response to the Democrats' refusal to pass (or even debate) the...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-is-how-minority-saves-fisa.html

February 13, 2008Britain's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, according to its summary, is: An Act to make provision for and about the interception of communications, the acquisition and dis...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-is-both-interesting-and-strange.html

February 13, 2008Republican Dino Rossi lost the Washington state governor's race to Democrat Christine Gregoire in 2004 by 129 votes -- a difference found on the third counting, after Rossi led t...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/washington-republicans-need-to-come-out.html

February 11, 2008In his budget for Fiscal Year 2009, though at $3.1 trillion still far too large, President Bush made several steps in the right (government-limiting) direction. Overall, is this ...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/health-care-and-fy2009-bush-budget.html

February 10, 2008Update: For another entrant into the below-mentioned department of legislation, check out this oldie but goodie from 2006: a Democrat State Senator from Ohio filing legislation t...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/shirt-check-shoes-check-acceptable-body.html

2/8/2008My good friend J.D. Johannes (an embedded documentarian) will be screening the Anbar portion of his new documentary trilogy at CPAC tomorrow morning. J.D. was on the ground at the fron in...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/anbar-awoke.html

2/7/2008ABC News's Jake Tapper has a great piece up about how the Obama for President campaign resembles nothing so much as an evangelical movement surrounding the elevation of a man to Godhood.

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/there-is-one-god-barack-and-oprah-is.html

February 7, 2008In light of the Super Tuesday results, I welcome Mitt's apparent decision to "suspend" his campaign, beginning today (provided that "suspend" means "end").One of my biggest worrie...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/on-romneys-apparent-decision-to-quit.html

February 7, 2008At the beginning of this legislative session, State Senator Karen Keiser (D-Kent) introduced legislation that would radically increase government control of health care in the sta...

http://jeffemanuel.blogspot.com/2008/02/will-washington-state-adopt-failed.html