That must be the reason for this: The Bush administration said yesterday that it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But Kansas-based Creekstone […]
(And let’s not get into jokes about pickles being in Libby after he arrives at the big house!) Last night the subject of pardoning Scooter Libby was brought up at the GOP debate. All the conservatives said they would. Sam Brownback went as far as to say that Clinton only had his law license revoked […]
Wow Bush must be a liberal! He is going to the G8 to promote awareness on global warming. Well that is what the wingnuts are saying, but check out this story from today: The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the […]
Should this organization really have such an influence in our politics? The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms. Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or […]
As well as violating the rights of U.S. Citizens: The Bush administration is urging Congress to pass a law that would halt dozens of lawsuits charging phone companies with invading ordinary citizens’ privacy through a post-Sept. 11 warrantless surveillance program. The measure is part of a legislative package drafted by the Justice Department to relax […]
While Bush and Republicans were assailing Nancy Pelosi for meeting with Syria last month, did it in fact backfire and prove that Pelosi’s approach was the right thing to do? Check out these couple of key paragraphs from CNN: The Bush administration has shunned Syria, which it considers a state supporter of terrorism, and last […]
U.S. News released the list of the top 10 internet crimes of 2006. The data is provided by the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a government agency partnered with the FBI. So look ask yourself which internet crime is the at the top of Bush’s agenda, and then look at this chart: (chart via usnews.com) Ironic […]
Today’s New York Times digs deeper into the GOP red herring: Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews. Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so […]
They call it a press conference, but we all know it is a lie conference, where Bush exhibits his contempt for the American people by flat out telling them lies. He must really think we are a bunch of stupid people. First off Think Progress brings us this very interesting fact: During the reign of […]
A lot of discussion has been brewing over the revelation that people like Karl Rove use a email address from the RNC as compared to the whitehouse.gov email address assigned to all employees. The biggest question lies within the possible violation of the presidential records act. CREW has been following this closely: Washington, DC – […]