Senator Moves to Suspend New Arsenic Limit for Tap Water

Sen. Craig should take a good dose of arsenic. What's good enough for everybody else should certainly be good enough for him. Why be selective about it and let the small communities suck swampwater. They have families and kids just like anybody in larger communities.
Senator Moves to Suspend New Arsenic Limit for Tap Water - Los Angeles Times

Greg Palast nails the burning cross caucus of the Republican Party

"Don't kid yourself: the Republican party's decision yesterday to 'delay' the renewal of the Voting Rights Act has not a darn thing to do with objections of the Republican's white sheets caucus.
Complaints by a couple of good ol' boys to legislation have never stopped the GOP leadership from rolling over dissenters.

This is a strategic stall that is meant to decriminalise the Republican party's new game of challenging voters of colour by the hundreds of thousands.

In the 2004 presidential race, the GOP ran a massive, multi-state, multimillion-dollar operation to challenge the legitimacy of black, Hispanic and Native American voters. The methods used breached the Voting Rights Act, and while the Bush administration's civil rights division grinned and looked the other way, civil rights lawyers began circling, preparing to sue to stop the violations of the act before the 2008 race.

So Republicans have promised to no longer break the law - not by going legit but by eliminating the law."

U.S. to intercept N. Korea missile?

The whole world knows we've never been able to shoot down one of our own missiles even with a homing device on the missile so who's kidding who about shooting down this one.
U.S. to intercept N. Korea missile? - Asia-Pacific - MSNBC.com

Former Antiterror Officials Find Industry Pays Better

These assholes get the gold mine while the public gets the shaft and the country goes bankrupt. Meanwhile the poor rubes making 5 bucks an hour keep sending their sons and daughters for bush's war machine and keep voting for more of the same. These criminals have no shame.
Former Antiterror Officials Find Industry Pays Better - New York Times: " At least 90 officials at the Department of Homeland Security or the White House Office of Homeland Security including the department's former secretary, Tom Ridge; the former deputy secretary, Adm. James M. Loy; and the former under secretary, Asa Hutchinson are executives, consultants or lobbyists for companies that collectively do billions of dollars' worth of domestic security business. "

GOP Measure Forces House Debate on War

Ten hours of debate for a 3+ year war. That boils down to 250 dead service men and women for each hour. How gracious of these pathetic clowns to show such compassion. Does that mean they'll debate through lunch also?
GOP Measure Forces House Debate on War: "'I can't help but feel through eyes of a combat-wounded Marine in Vietnam, if someone was shot, you tried to save his life. . . . While you were in combat, you had a sense of urgency to end the slaughter, and around here we don't have that sense of urgency,' said Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (Md.), a usually soft-spoken Republican who has urged his leaders to challenge the White House on Iraq. 'To me, the administration does not act like there's a war going on. The Congress certainly doesn't act like there's a war going on. If you're raising money to keep the majority, if you're thinking about gay marriage, if you're doing all this other peripheral stuff, what does that say to the guy who's about ready to drive over a land mine?'"

Gay Marriage Amendment Getting a Presidential Push

As Stranger over at Blah3 says, "the rubes ain't buying it". Hopefully we'll get a nice video clip of the assembled VIP (vermin in photo-op) mode to use in the coming fall election campaigns.
Gay Marriage Amendment Getting a Presidential Push - Los Angeles Times