"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2007
Citizens group files elections complaint against Sen. Martinez It is intersting that despite FEC audits showing massive violations of the law, no action has been taken against Mel. Could it just be that he’s the friggin’ chairman of the Republican Party? Nope, nothing to see here folks just move along.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2007
Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors – New York Times But in August of that year, according to the Republican official, the committee decided that e-mail sent by White House officials would be kept on the server. Still, the change did not prevent White House officials from manually deleting their e-mail, and some, including [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 28th, 2007
Gonzales TV Appearance Sheds No Light on Firings – washingtonpost.com He said he had heard complaints about some prosecutors over the years but “was not involved in the deliberations over whether or not United States attorneys should resign.” He approved the list of prosecutors to be fired but let others choose them. He said he [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2007
Document: Gonzales attended meeting on attorney firings – CNN.com While the President does have the right to fire US attorneys, blatant politicization of federal investigations/prosecutions is wrong and so is a cabinet level official lying to Congress. That’s why he ought to resign. Part of his role as a the AG is to testify to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 17th, 2007
As reported by Editor & Publisher Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, told a congressional committee today that he was aware of no internal investigation or report into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. The White House had first opposed Knodell testifying but after a threat [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 14th, 2007
‘Mistakes’ Made on Prosecutors, Gonzales Says – New York Times Mistakes like lying to Congress and the public? Mr. Gonzalez doesn’t seem to understand that his roll is the chief law enforcement officer, not mouthpiece for the President. Hey Gonzo, your not White House Counsel anymore. At this point anyone with any political ties investigated [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2007
Justice aide resigns over prosecutor firings – Yahoo! News Sen. Schumer was riffing on the Bush administration in general and AG Gonzalez in particular on CNN. He says that Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson’s resignation doesn’t deflect this issue away from the AG and “only turns up the heat”. Speaker Pelosi is also proposing the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 22nd, 2007
Confidence in Bush Leadership at All-Time Low, Poll Finds – washingtonpost.com The public doesn’t support the surge, nor does it trust the White House to decide the course in Iraq. Common sense breaks out across the heartland. It’s too late for 3056 dead abd 22,000+ injured severly enough to require air medivac. Sadly, I don’t [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 18th, 2007
Republicans Halt Ethics Legislation – washingtonpost.com Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists’ influence and tighten congressional ethics rules, refusing to let the bill pass without a vote on an unrelated measure that would give President Bush virtual line-item-veto power. This really takes some balls. Efforts to give Bush power to strike [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 9th, 2006
It appears that the Democrats have gained control of both houses of Congress and picked up a few governorships. The electorate has collectively rebuked the President’s conduct of the war in Iraq, corruption in the GOP, fiscal irresponsibility and general hubris. In the process Lamont lost in Connecticut and Santorum lost in Pennsylvania, knocking off [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 3rd, 2006
As Bechtel Goes – New York Times The administrations final answer on dealing with wasted money, outright incompetence and perfidy in the failed reconstruction of Iraq is to shoot the messenger. Instead of dealing with correcting the situation they have decided to close the Special Inspector General’s Office for Iraq Reconstruction. It was simply too [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 22nd, 2006
Prop. 89: So Good It’s Scary — to Sacramento – Los Angeles Times This is a very, very interesting bit of legislation. The gist of it is that in order to run for office in the Golden State you have to collect a lot of small donations and signatures from people. It would strictly limit [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 12th, 2006
From todays WaPo op-ed pages: DeLay Exits, Stage (Hard) Right These are people who behaved contemptibly in government because they have such contempt for government. The perfect epithet for Delay’s career in congress…
Posted in Blog Post on May 13th, 2006
This Washington Post op-ed piece follows up to the story about Alfonso Jackson I posted earlier this week: A Made-Up Story? But hold on, because the story took an even more bizarre turn when Mr. Jackson issued a statement declaring that he — and presumably Ms. Tucker — had fabricated the entire story. “During my [...]
Posted in Blog Post on May 9th, 2006
Think Progress » Housing Sec. Canceled Contract Because Contractor Criticized Bush, Apparently Violating Law The law means nothing to these hacks. Despite the oft mentioned liberal media bais, I’ve yet to hear of this on the MSM. The orginal article is from the Dallas Business Journal.
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 29th, 2006
Tim Roemer writes in today’s NY Times Op-Ed section (behind a subscription wall): Enough Already – New York Times “Had Enough? Vote Democratic!” is a slogan that spotlights the many mistakes in Iraq, the mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina and the mangling of fiscal responsibility with “bridges to nowhere.” Indeed, you can see and hear Democratic [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 15th, 2006
Shakespear’s Sister and Glenn Greenwald respond to “The Left, Online and Outraged” in today’s WaPo by David Finkel. He want to make the case that the lefty blogosphere is all about neurotic, angry nutjobs blinded by hatred of Bush and the GOP. Shakes nails why I blog: I blog because their leadership is thoroughly incompetent, [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 12th, 2006
Columns: How to rein in Greed Inc. Robyn Blumner take corporate executives to task for giving themselves huge bonuses and incentives, while slashing pay, benefits and reneging on pension promises. She offers Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s proposal to tie future federal largess, i.e., corporate welfare, to good corporate behavior. I would hope that a reasonable proposal [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 8th, 2006
Think Progress » Jack Abramoff Describes Relationship With President Bush Sounds like they were much closer than Mr. Bush would like the public to know. In hiding those photos (and here) the White House only made “the wrong people” more curious about exactly what they were trying to hide and more determined to dig into [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 27th, 2006
Prosecutor Will Step Down From Lobbyist Case – New York Times The investigation of Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Republican lobbyist, took a surprising new turn on Thursday when the Justice Department said the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down next week because he had been nominated to a federal judgeship by President Bush. [...]
Date: 10/05/2007