Representatives’ Jeanette Mott Oxford and Jamilah Nashheed demonstrate to us today what happens when your party is in a super minority in the legislature. You co-sponsor highly partisan, symbolic, and dead in the water resolutions to gain attention. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum were the proud sponsors of a Bush Cheney Impeachment Resolution last session. […]

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According to this piece in CQ, Congressman graves will be one of the targets of a mass email and phone campaign that accuses the Congressman of not supporting the troops. No Holiday From Politics as House Dems Launch Ad Blitz By Marie Horrigan Rhetoric pyrotechnics, launched by Democratic House campaign chieftains, will provide some background […]

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To the editor: Lt. Daniel Riordan was a friend of mine. He died in Iraq a few days ago. He was an Air Force ROTC cadet for four years at Southeast Missouri State University. He was an outstanding, polite cadet who would help people out if it was needed. He was a tough young man […]

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Today on KMOX, I talked to Senator Claire McCaskill about her recent trip to Baghdad, where she looked into abuse and extortion by private contractors (a theme we’ve discussed often, including last year’s screening of “Iraq for Sale”). Audio Related: Sen. McCaskill appeared on Lou Dobbs tonight and declared she will vote against cloture on […]

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Lost in the coverage Monday of Senate Republicans blocking the no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, was a silly little speech given by Kit Bond (R-MO) about the Iraq war, the Democratic response to the quagmire and, as the Congressional Record labeled it, “Media Bias” in reporting on the American occupation. Bond covered all […]

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By Matthew Continetti (excerpted) The most prominent Senate hawk is John McCain, but his presidential campaign often takes him away from Washington. That leaves most of the pro-war lobbying to McCain’s fellow Arizonan Jon Kyl, who is number three in the minority leadership, and South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham. Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn is also important. In […]

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“The committee will come to order. This morning the committee meets to receive testimony on Department of Defense body armor programs. We have with us today two panels of distinguished witnesses representing the military services, private industry, and independent agencies. I want to thank all of our witnesses in attendance today. “The jurisdiction of this […]

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By Matt Canham (Excerpted) Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman is leading a national “terror-free investing” effort that she hopes will shame major companies from doing business with the countries on the State Department’s list. So far, she isn’t getting much support, including here in Utah, a state that is one of the most ardent supporters of […]

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Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he wants to again interview former CIA officer Valerie Plame. Bond said Plame has given inconsistent accounts of how her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was sent to Africa to investigate reports that Iraq was trying to get uranium there, USA Today […]

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First she votes for Sen. David Vitter’s conservative amendment to end the new immigration bill’s amnesty clause. Then she supports the new Iraq funding bill that other Democrats called “a setback” I almost began to feel like our great state had two Republicans in the Senate, but we don’t. We have one Republican and one […]

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