Bush is still trying to show us he cares nothing about our privacy, just his own: The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law intended to forbid political interference with reports to lawmakers by the Department of Homeland Security. The August 2007 law requires the agency’s chief privacy officer to report […]
Below the fold is the prepared remarks that Nancy Pelosi read on the House floor that was supposed to be the “partisan speech” she gave which pissed off Republicans. I have read it a few times now and can’t find a thing bad about it. It sounds like the Republicans are out looking for a […]
Here we go – attack the newspaper. The McCain campaign has a post up calling the New York Times a “partisan paper of record”, as well as comparing it to the Huffington Post. Amazing that this is the only defense they have, while ignoring other outlets such as Newsweek is also reporting on the Davis/Freddie […]
FACT – John McCain has revitalized much of the Bush administration in his campaign. FACT – McCain is the same as Bush. FACT – Palin is not the same as Cheney. At least Cheney has some knowledge of Washington. Palin has none and a lack of knowledge coupled with her ideology is a recipe for […]
That’s where the price tag is heading on the bailout plan. This is getting beyond absurd. Part of the problem is that all the lobbyists are in full force now trying to get their little piece of this gift from the Bush administration and Congress. RIP America 1776-2008
The Bush administration is taking control of Freddie and Fannie. Funny – I always thought the government controlling private industry was considered socialism?
A brilliant post by Andrew Sullivan: In all the discussion of John McCain’s recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. […]
Obama slammed McCain and his followers today when it comes to ways to save on gas. This is a new, harder hitting Obama that I really like, and one that the Republicans need to fear: Bob Cesca also posted about a Time article today that says this: The Bush Administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling […]
Except on issues that really matter to Americans, like warrantless wiretapping: If elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the right to run his own warrantless wiretapping program against Americans, based on the theory that the president’s wartime powers trump federal criminal statutes and court oversight, according to a statement released by his campaign Monday. […]
The big F.U. that corporate media execs gave to the American people and, more importantly, U.S. soldiers. Jessica Yellin told Anderson Cooper last night the following: Yellin: I think the press corps dropped the ball in the beginning when the lead up to war began, uh the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate […]