Roadblock Blog

Roadblock Roundup for July 23

Devil's advocate
Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) stands up for what he believes in. He's against protecting our veterans, affordable drugs, renewable energy, and lean national spending.

I had my fingers crossed
Things are getting confusing for Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). He said we'd get out of Iraq if the Iraqis wanted us to leave and now Prime Minister Maliki is calling for U.S. withdrawal. What, oh, what will Mitch do now?

Guess those photo-ops in the workplace were meant to be ironic
Susan Collins (R-Maine) is being supported with big money from anti-union groups.

We're going to subsidize the heck out of them
Sen. John Sununu (R-New Hampshire) thinks, as does every Republican up for reelection this year it seems, that more drilling is the solution to our energy woes. This despite the fact that Big Oil is spending its record profits on stock buybacks - Exxon spending $8.8 billion on them in the first quarter of 2008 alone.

Scandal-plagued money is still green, ain't it
John Cornyn (R-Texas) has received political donations in the past from known associates of Jack Abramoff, which he has refused to return, even after learning where the money came from.