When Obama said he would go after al Qaeda in Pakistan, the right wingers went ape shit. They couldn’t believe he would do such a thing to a sovereign nation. I mean we could have seen future articles like this: U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan fired across the border into Pakistan in a strike targeting Taliban […]
“The President is wrong and he knows it!” That’s the words of Nancy Pelosi in her response to Bush’s little presser this morning. According to McJoan at Daily Kos there are a lot more House Democrats now siding with the law on this. This is great news. Hopefully the Senate will take notice and the […]
But that’s only when he really wants to. Apparently he didn’t when it came to the trailers sent to New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina: Federal officials issued trailers to Hurricane Katrina victims even though some workplace safety tests detected high levels of formaldehyde at government staging areas for the structures just weeks after the storm, […]
Bush gave one of his little speeches today about FISA. Usually I just ignore these things, as they are so painful to watch. Today though, some things really stuck out at me. Any companies that assisted us after 9/11 were assured their cooperation was legal and necessary You assured them it was legal? Anyone with […]
John McCain wants to be Bush so bad that he is now hiring all his people: Ken Mehlman, who ran Bush’s 2004 campaign, is now serving as an unpaid, outside adviser to the Arizona Republican. Karl Rove, the president’s top political hand since his Texas days, recently gave money to McCain and soon after had […]
That is what the James Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee, has said the FAA needs to do: The Federal Aviation Administration should “clean house from top to bottom” and has too cozy a relationship with the airlines, the head of a congressional committee investigating airline safety inspections said Friday. This is […]
The oil for food scandal nabs another one: A Texas oil executive was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for approving the payment of millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq regime so he could secure large oil shipments through a United Nations program. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin also fined David […]
Vanity Fair has posted an extensive piece that lays out the case that our Government sparked recent problems in Gaza. It even goes as far as saying it’s “part Iran-Contra”. Sounds like Congress has some questions to ask.
But only if they count the way she wants them to: I would not accept a caucus. I think that would be a great disservice to the 2 million people who turned out and voted. I think that they want their votes counted. And you know a lot of people would be disenfranchised because of […]
This should make all the people suffering feel better: The White House said on Friday that it was disappointed in the biggest monthly decline in nearly five years in U.S. job payrolls and that the current quarter would be difficult for the U.S. economy. “This quarter’s going to be a difficult quarter for the U.S. […]