Note to Jim Moran (D-VA): People who want to kill themselves to kill you don’t care about your ‘reputation’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 25th at 10:00 PM  | 

Politico has a report today on Democrats’ effort to transfer the violent terrorists currently imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay to facilities within the U.S. “It sets us back in the war on terrorism to be maintaining Guantanamo,” said Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), who’s heading an investigation of the facility for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. “It will enhance our reputation to close it down and to | Read More »

A reminder of the economic philosophy of our governing majority (and open thread)

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 9th at 05:31 PM  | 

[W]e’ve been guided by a Republican administration who believes in the simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it, and they have an antipathy towards the means of redistributing wealth. -Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) Couple that with Barack Obama’s statement yesterday that “Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy,” and you get a pretty clear picture | Read More »