Public Servants Acting as Public Masters
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 4th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Public Servants Acting as Public Masters
Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
“Nothing could be further from the truth. I mean, we wouldn’t do that.” That was CIA Director John Brennan’s answer in March when Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., charged the CIA with breaking into computers used by Senate investigators looking into CIA misconduct.
Eric Holder: Proud to Be an Activist
Juan Williams, The Hill
Only two years ago, House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. Recently, Senate Republicans have trashed the former head of his civil rights division, Thomas Perez, and blocked his current choice to run the division, Debo Adegbile.But now the attorney general is making surprising friends with his efforts to cut the nation’s prison population. Among his unlikely allies are congressional Republicans and even Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Jeff Bell’s Surging Senate Race Against Cory Booker
The Do-Even-Less Congress
Charles Blow, New York Times
Congress is a joke. But the joke isn’t funny — unless, of course, you’re into dark humor.The entire legislative body has been consumed by kvetching, at the expense of actual legislating. And the numbers that highlight this reality are simply atrocious.According to a Pew Research Center report issued Thursday:
A Crony Capitalism Showdown
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
GOP voters overhauled their party in 2010, sending to the House a new generation of Republicans committed to smaller government, freer markets and less corporate welfare. We’re about to find out if those voters really meant it.A big decision comes Tuesday in the Kansas GOP primary. The Sunflower State is in the throes of political upheaval, with most of the attention on the fortunes of Gov. Sam Brownback and Sen. Pat Roberts. But the race that may say far more about the direction of the GOP is taking place in Wichita, the state’s Fourth District, in the standoff between Rep. Mike Pompeo and…