Dennis Kucinich had his day on the House floor today. The debate on his doomed bill to demand that Obama remove our troops from Afghanistan was full of the usual suspects making their usual arguments. I can’t help but wonder, if George Bush were still president, would there have been more than 60 votes of support from Democrats?
Ron Paul took his five minutes to continue his lifelong demonstration called, “How to follow the Constitution”.

Nancy Pelosi is now claiming that if the vote were taken today,
she'd have enough support from House Democrats to pass health
reform. But according to The
Daily Caller's Jon Ward, that's news to Rep.

Over the last few weeks, the White House and its
supporters have been pushing hard on the idea that health care
reform really is fiscal responsible, mostly in hopes of winning
over wavering moderate Democrats in the House.

Congress wants to establish a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) that will regulate everything from credit cards to mortgages.
House Democrats want the CFPA to be an independent agency, but Republicans are opposed. As a result, Senators Chris Dodd and Bob Corker are thinking of making it an arm of . . . the Federal Reserve!

One day we will all wake up from this nightmare,
and ask ourselves when exactly did we get to the point
where the first, second, third, and 99th reaction to every problem,
real and imagined, was to have the government do something about
it? On that Day of Judgment, we will be pointing bony fingers at
seemingly routine stories like this: