Steve Israel

Congenital liar, Mike Rogers (R-MI)Until recently, Michigan congressman Mike Rogers has operated mostly in the shadows. Some might find that fitting for the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee; we don't. Rogers is charged with over site of the sprawling, out-of-control surveillance state. Instead he has run his committee as a cheering squad for it.

If Democrats want to support antigay, anti-Choice bigots, they can just vote for RepublicansWednesday is the filing deadline for candidates running in Ohio's May 6 primary.

You may have noticed we keep complaining about Nancy Pelosi's selection and retention of Steve Israel as Chairman of the DCCC. The Democrats will never win back the House will Israel as chair.

There are no words to describe the contempt I feel after reading an op-ed by my Congressman, Steve Israel, entitled The State of Our Middle Class. How pretentious that the same man whose mortgage obligation was forgiven by "friendly" banksters would opine on the struggles of the middle class.

Israel never turned over any of the tainted Madoff cash that flowed his wayThe DCCC is making a lot of hay lately about all the trouble Michael Grimm (R-NY) is in with the law-- and they should. He's lowlife scum who disgraces Congress with his very presence.

As awful as he was, at least Rahm managed to win some seatsOver the weekend, the NY Times' Carl Hulse predicted another two years of split government after the midterms.

Jennifer Garrison-- does she look sort of like Erin Zeigler?Steve Israel, an ex-p.r. flack (and Blue Dog), who Steny Hoyer forced Nancy Pelosi to appoint DCCC Chairman, got an idea. One of Israel's Long Island neighbors, a constituent and on the board of the synagogue Israel attended, wrote this on his blog a few months ago:

Republicans won 51.8% of the vote in a jungle primary because Steve Israel backed a candidate Democratic voters can't relate to. And he's doing it again this year.The Beltway committees like the DCCC and NRCC get their information about America from the Cook Report and the Cook Report gets its information from the Beltway committees like the DCCC and NRCC. It's a closed loop of cluelessness.

If you missed me putting Buck McKeon's resignation from Congress into context for KPFK listeners yesterday, here's a short, abbreviated version above.

This week the Center for Responsive Politics issued a widely cited report that makes clear that, for the first time ever, most Members of Congress have net worths of over a million dollars.