Oh, look- just days after Speaker Boehner appointed 19 men to committee chair positions for the 113th Congress, he announces that Representative Candice S. Miller of Michigan will head the Committee on House Administration. 
Category: womens issues
Romney’s gifts
Mitt Romney blames his loss on Obama’s “gifts” to Hispanics, African-Americans, young voters.
Surveillance and your privacy
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
I didn’t know this but the actual Benjamin Franklin quote is “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” or; “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”.
Anyway, the Petreaus still-evolving mess has brought up the issue of surveillance and how far it reaches into our private lives. Glenn Greenwald over at The Guardian has great column about it.
Senator Graham criticizes GOP immigration policy
During Sunday’s Face the Nation, the senator from South Carolina talks about how “tone and rhetoric” have caused the Hispanic community to turn against the Republican Party. He’s forgetting how tone and rhetoric is a problem with even a bigger voting bloc.
GOP tries to figure out what went wrong
The Washington Post has a story about top GOP officials planning “an exhaustive review to figure out what went so wrong and how to fix it”. I don’t think the Republicans need to spend all that money on focus groups; try joining the 21st century.
Obama wins a 2nd term
