Category: Congress

  • Congressman John Lewis hosts a Voting Rights panel discussion-Monday Evening

    What: Panel Discussion/Forum Topic: “Redistricting and the Continued Relevance of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act” When: Monday, August 8, 2011  Time: 6 pm to 8 pm Where: Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church  407 Auburn Ave. Atlanta, Ga. 30312.

  • The Button Says it All

    The Congressman speaks for me  when he says this: “I was glad to hear that President Barack Obama is trying to keep his promise and begin the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan this summer.  I am also glad to hear that at least 10,000 of our men and women are coming home, but we need…

  • Snark Thursday, week 2.

    Seriously, you thought I forgot? Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr read some poetry at the White House yesterday, and dang if the right wing didn’t get their undies in a bunch. Seriously people, let it go. Not all rappers are Tyler, if you want to hate on anything he did artistically how about this movie. Not…

  • Operation Odyssey Dawn

    In 2007, Obama said: “The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” Discuss.

  • Explanation, please.

    I would like a reasonable explanation for this. As I understand it, the House voted to defund Planned Parenthood in the next budget because, as Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) says, taxpayer money should not go to groups that provide or promote abortion. Hyde Amendment aside, I’d like to point out a few things. 98% of…

  • The most important infrastructure project in GA just put on hold. Thanks GAGOP.

    So today President Obama released his budget. Thousands of Georgians were waiting to see the if the President was going to include hundreds of millions of dollars for a project called SHEP (Savannah Harbor Expansion Project). This project was one of the only issues that Roy Barnes and Nathan Deal agreed on during the campaign. It has…