Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff and President Bush’s top political adviser, is refusing to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify on “politicization” within the Justice Department. Rove had been scheduled to appear next Thursday, July 10. Karl Rove could walk into Congress and piss on a Congressional pew, he [...]

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called on lawmakers Tuesday to consider new rules to expand the central bank’s authority over the financial markets, saying financial markets need to be more stable and resilient.read more | digg story

FISA Passed, Obama voted in favor of it.read more | digg story

Late this afternoon, Clinton voted against the bill, putting her at odds with the party’s presumptive nominee, Barack Obama. She also, like Obama, pinpointed shortcomings in oversight, immunity, and other aspects of the compromise. But, in the end, she, unlike Obama, was persuaded to vote no.read more | digg story

Over 200 years ago, we enshrined the rule of law as the only monarch in America. Tomorrow, the Senate will likely vote to shred that precedent. Democrats, “compromising” with Republicans, will act together, in a bipartisan fashion, to destroy your right to be free from search without a warrant. read more | digg story

With the ability to get across party lines, with the aesthetics to create a picture capable of influencing millions and with the perspective to make the right decisions not for popular votes but because it is the right thing to do, Barack has emerged to not only win the Democratic candidacy but inspire what used [...]

Corporate America has always used war to steal as much as they could. “Unless Congress closes a gaping hole in the law against war profiteering, companies ripping off taxpayers in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars may never be fully prosecuted. This is because the latest conflicts are not declared wars.” Read on.read more | digg [...]

Keep in mind that FISA stands for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). It is supposed to only legalize spying on foreign intelligence information between foreign powers. The disapproval of bill comes mostly from the left and Libertarians who fear that FISA oversteps its bounds by taking away the 4th amendment (unreasonable searches and seizures) from [...]

This morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on MSNBC and blasted Congress for being lazy. He said that instead of taking a Fourth of July recess, senators should have stuck around and passed a housing bill. McCain now ranks as the #1 most absent senator of the 110th Congress, having missed 61.8 percent of the [...]

Netroots activists who helped Barack Obama to become the Democratic party’s presumptive presidential nominee are unmoved by the senator’s explanation of his change of heart on a pending bill regarding warrantless wiretapping.read more | digg story