This is a pretty big one. The Secretary of the Army has just resigned in wake of the scandal: Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey resigned Friday as the Bush administration struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for wounded Iraq soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The surprise move […]
Next week the House will hold hearings on the firing of federal prosecutors. John Conyers issued the first subpoenas since the Democrats took over in this case. He subpoenaed the fired prosecutors to testify before the Judiciary Committee, which Conyers chairs. It has also come out now that Heather Wilson and Pete Domenci were the […]
This is great. A picture of Tony Blair has emerged showing him doing an obscene gesture on camera in the 1970’s while attending college. Considering how much Bush likes to flip off the media, it is no wonder these two are so close.
That is Bush’s latest approval rating according to a new New York Times/CBS poll. Most damage is also coming from within his own party now: In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. Mr. Bush’s […]
There was a lot of talk this week about Al Gore’s utility bill. When a right wing smear machine released a statement that Gore’s utility bill was $30,000 last year, the typical vultures jumped on it. Their support of the claims was nothing more than a picture: This picture was spread around the right wing […]
When news broke of the attempt on Dick Cheney’s life this week, the Huffington Post had a few reads make comments that they were upset that the attack missed Cheney. Arianna has responded to the right wing smear which has since emerged: On Tuesday morning, The Huffington Post linked to an AP news story on […]
I haven’t posted on the firing of the federal prosecutors lately, but there has been some real interesting developments in the case. Yesterday, we received this news: The controversy flared up early Wednesday afternoon after David Iglesias, the departing U.S. attorney from New Mexico, told McClatchy Newspapers that he believes he was forced out because […]
Well it only took 4 years, but the general in charge at Walter Reed has been relieved of his command. There still needs to be more heads rolling on this one though.
“Hospital Officials Knew Of Neglect” – now that says alot, but not as much as the actual article: Top officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, including the Army’s surgeon general, have heard complaints about outpatient neglect from family members, veterans groups and members of Congress for more than three years. A procession of Pentagon […]
That is the headline of an AP article today. At first read you start to think “great – here we go again with pork barrel spending”. It sends a feeling of “bridges to nowhere” encompassing my body. But when you read the article, you find out that is not the case at all. While Democrats […]