Senator Edward Kennedy skewered George W. Bush’s rhetoric on surveillance without a warrant, corporations, and the value of human life in a speech to the Senate on December 17, 2007:
Think about what we’ve been hearing from the White House in this debate. The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress […]
By Bush’s Own Logic, Prioritizing Corporations over Human Lives
December 19th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: democrats · economy · homeland insecurity · values voting
Biden: Time for a President to Act on Chinese Imports
December 8th, 2007 · No Comments
Senator Joseph Biden rejects the notion that in the face of dangerous Chinese-made products, there’s not much to be done:
With the WTO guidelines, we could stop these products coming in now. This president doesn’t act. We have much more leverage on China than they have on us.
Let’s get something straight here. We’re making them into […]
Tags: economy · international relations
John Edwards Challenges Democrats to Reform
November 12th, 2007 · No Comments
In Iowa this weekend, when presidential candidate John Edwards appeared at a Democratic Party fundraising dinner, he didn’t just flatter the powerful Democrats there. He challenged them to reform the Democratic Party, to take it away from the corporate lobbyists who are attempting to twist the party into little more than an instrument of […]