In a response to a letter from the Representatives Joe Barton and Edward Markey, Facebook addressed concerns about privacy breaches by Facebook applications — saying sharing user IDs does not constitute a privacy breach, but adding that Facebook, as an industry leader, would spearhead an industry-wide effort to prevent the sharing of such information in the future. (more)
Calls for Congress to defund National Public Radio went into overdrive Friday, with commentators and congressmen alike criticizing the broadcast network of improperly firing one of its reporters. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina acted on those calls by introducing legislation Friday to defund NPR as well as the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). (more)
An open letter to the gathering wave of new House Republicans: (more)
Is Congress unfriending Mark Zuckerberg? (more)
Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton says he “was Tea Party when Tea Party wasn’t cool.” (more)
Tight credit, reduced spending, and a host of symptoms of the poor economy have pummeled businesses large and small, and workers are feeling it with 9.6 percent unemployment. Unable to find credit to expand or even endure bad times and unable to find customers willing to spend, companies are forced to lay off workers. Two hundred employees of a plant in Winchester, Va., will soon join the millions of American unemployed. (more)
Democrats have said they are running against George W. Bush this fall, or at least his policies. But on Wednesday, they’ll announce that they’re really running against the Tea Party. (more)
OMG, guess what? Obamacare has more hidden expenses! — Census is over, America is jobless again — Congress is going to make damn sure that Wall Street has its fair share of chicks — Pres. Obama is so tired of signing things, secretly hopes GOP will win the House — DoD drops a cool $4 million on administering gay survey — Every time Joe Biden is allowed outside, something bad happens (more)
If Rand Paul and Joe Barton have been punching bags for Democrats of late, Sharron Angle on Thursday became a pinata. (more)
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” —Thomas Jefferson
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On Wednesday, the same day President Barack Obama ousted his humiliated Afghanistan commander, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs walked into the Oval Office with more grim news: The cap on the gushing oil in the Gulf had been dislodged. (more)
BP is deserving of no apology. The real apology should be to the American people. (more)
House Democrats are planning to vote Wednesday on giving subpoena power to the independent commission established by President Obama to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (more)
At last week’s Congressional hearings, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) apologized to BP’s CEO, Tony Hayward, for what he described as a government shakedown of $20 billion of BP’s assets. In typical Washington fashion, outcry from both political parties quickly forced Barton to produce a second apology, where he laid the blame for the problem squarely on BP. (more)
Sarah Palin called White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a liar on Twitter yesterday, saying his comments on ABC’s “This Week” make him shallow, narrow-minded, political and irresponsible. (more)
Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton may have prefaced his apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward by saying he was only speaking for himself, but it has become increasingly clear that other prominent conservatives at least partially agree with his statements. (more)
House Republican leaders told Rep. Joe Barton that he would be stripped of his ranking member status on a key committee Thursday if he did not immediately apologize for comments earlier in the day accusing President Obama of a “shakedown” of oil giant BP, sources told the Daily Caller. (more)
Not all Republicans appear to be on the same page as Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), who apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward Thursday morning for the way his company has been treated by the White House. (more)
A senior Republican senator on Thursday said he shares some concerns expressed by Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican who caused a furor on Capitol Hill and a quick rebuke from the White House by apologizing to a BP executive. (more)
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